The Paul McCartney World Tour

The Paul McCartney World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by Paul McCartney during 1989 and 1990. It was McCartney's first major tour outing in ten years, since Wings UK Tour 1979, and his first appearances in North America in thirteen years, since the 1976 Wings Over America Tour. It was also his first tour under his name.

While the tour coincided with the release of his Flowers in the Dirt album, it was thematically more about his finally embracing his Beatles past, including for the first time, in any of his tours, a substantial number of Beatles songs in the set list.

The tour was documented by the 1990 live double album Tripping the Live Fantastic, the single album Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!, and the 1991 film Get Back. A one-hour tour documentary was also aired on Channel 4 TV in the UK, called "From Rio to Liverpool"

Tour booklet

Attendees to the concerts received, free of additional charge, a lavish 9x12-inch 98-page booklet. It contained the tour itinerary, lengthy profiles of each of the band members, descriptions of the tour's stage and logistics, and an extended description of Friends of the Earth's mission. Two-thirds of the booklet consisted of McCartney's reflections upon his life and career, illustrated by many photographs. One emphasis of the narrative was on how McCartney's interest in avant garde painting and music preceded John Lennon's interest.

The band

• Paul McCartney: Lead Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Piano
• Linda McCartney: Keyboards, Percussion, Backing Vocals
• Hamish Stuart: Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
• Robbie McIntosh: Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Paul "Wix" Wickens: Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Chris Whitten: Drums

Tour dates

Set list

1. Figure of Eight
2. Jet
3. Rough Ride
4. Got to Get You into My Life
5. Band on the Run
6. Ebony and Ivory or Birthday
7. We Got Married
8. Maybe I'm Amazed or Let 'Em In
9. The Long and Winding Road
10. The Fool on the Hill
11. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
12. Good Day Sunshine
13. Can't Buy Me Love
14. Put It There
15. Things We Said Today
16. Eleanor Rigby
17. This One
18. My Brave Face
19. Back in the U.S.S.R.
20. I Saw Her Standing There
21. Twenty Flight Rock (Not played all the time)
22. Coming Up
23. Lennon Medley: Strawberry Fields Forever/Help!/Give Peace a Chance (Not played all the time)
24. Let It Be
25. Ain't That a Shame
26. Live and Let Die
27. Hey Jude
28. Yesterday
29. Mull of Kintyre (Only in Glasgow)
30. P.S. Love Me Do (Not played all the time; a medley of two Beatles songs: Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You from their first album Please Please Me, a studio version was released only on disc two of the Japanese version of Flowers in the Dirt)
31. Get Back
32. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

Instruments played by band members

Soundcheck

1. C Moon (McCartney)
2. Crackin' Up (McDaniel)
3. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (Greene)
4. Inner City Madness (Paul McCartney/Linda McCartney/Stuart/McIntosh/Wickens/Whitten)
5. Matchbox (Perkins)
6. Sally (Haines/Leon/Towers)
7. Together (Paul McCartney/Linda McCartney/Stuart/McIntosh/Wickens/Whitten)