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The "Got Back" tour will open on April 28 in
Spokane, Washington, McCartney's first show in that city,
followed by back-to-back concerts at the Climate Pledge Arena in
Seattle on May 2-3, according to the tour schedule posted on his
official website.
The tour is slated to stop in 11 more U.S. cities over the
following six weeks, wrapping at the Met Life Stadium in East
Rutherford, New Jersey, on June 16, two days before McCartney's
80th birthday.
The McCartney outing is sure to figure as a highlight of the
2022 spring-and-summer arena music scene as recording stars
begin to return to live performances after a two-year hiatus
forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
McCartney is widely considered one of the greatest songwriters
of the 20th century in his 1960s Beatles collaboration with the
late John Lennon. He was last on the concert circuit with a
39-date world tour that concluded with a sold-out show in July
2019 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
"I said at the end of the last tour that I'd see you next time.
I said, I was going to get back to you. Well, I got back," the
musician said in a statement announcing his latest outing,
alluding to the Beatles' 1969 hit "Get Back."
The writing and recording of the song featured prominently in
the "The Beatles: Get Back," a recently-released documentary
film series directed by Peter Jackson that covers the making of
the band's 1970 album "Let It Be."
The upcoming tour includes McCartney's first ever shows in three
Southern cities - Hollywood, Florida; Knoxville, Tennessee; and
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He also will be playing in Fort
Worth, Texas, for the first time since he appeared there in 1976
with Wings, and in Baltimore for the first time since a 1964
Beatles concert.
Rounding out the Got Back tour are stops in Boston; Los Angeles;
Oakland, California; Orlando, Florida; and Syracuse, New York.
Tickets for the general public go on sale on Feb. 25.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles, Editing by Rosalba
O'Brien)
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