McCartney Times

It took Paul McCartney nearly ten years to perform a Beatles song on tour again. After the Fab Four became a studio-only band in 1966, hearing a Beatles song live would be restricted to the lucky few who were in or around 3 Saville Row on January 30, 1969, when the band appeared on the roof of their Apple Corps building to perform a few cuts from the Get Back project, later assembled as Let It Be. If you happened to catch Wings on one of their college tours of the early ’70s, you weren’t going to hear any classic Beatles numbers, other than their cover of Little Richards track ‘Long Tall Sally’.

As the Wings over the World brought the band to America for the first time, McCartney relaxed his strict ‘No Beatles Songs’ policy and reintegrated some of his classic tunes into the setlist. Once Wings became a past-tense entity, McCartney felt more comfortable covering his entire career in the live setting, and although he occasionally pulls out a surprise now and again, he and his current backing back usually stick to the tried-and-true hits when it comes to playing Beatles songs.

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