Summer Live '09 Explained

Concert Tour Name:	Summer Live '09
Artist:	Paul McCartney
Number Of Shows:	10
Gross:	US$$32 million ($ in dollars)
Last Tour:	Secret Tour (2007)
This Tour:	Summer Live '09 (2009)
Next Tour:	Good Evening Europe Tour (2009)

The Summer Live '09 tour was the fourth North American concert tour of the 21st century by Paul McCartney. The tour began on 11 July 2009 at the Halifax Common in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and closed at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on 19 August 2009. It visited 7 cities across North America, earning $36 million from ten shows.

Background

McCartney performed three nights at the new Citi Field in New York City on 17, 18 and 21 July 2009, replicating his role as a Beatle opening the newly opened Shea Stadium in 1965.^[1] To promote the tour, McCartney appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on 15 July, and performed a seven-song mini-concert atop the marquee of the Ed Sullivan Theater (although only two songs, "Get Back" and "Sing the Changes" were aired). Good Evening New York City, a live CD/DVD of the Citi Field concerts was released on 17 November 2009; furthermore, the Deluxe Edition contains the complete 7 song mini-concert.

Personnel

• Paul McCartney: Lead Vocals, Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Electric Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin
• Rusty Anderson: Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
• Brian Ray: Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass
• Paul "Wix" Wickens: Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Accordion, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Harmonica
• Abe Laboriel Jr.: Backing Vocals, Drums, Percussion

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
North America^[2]
11 July 2009	Halifax	Canada		26,504^[3]	CDN$3,500,000
17 July 2009	New York City	United States		109,541 / 109,541	$12,775,662
18 July 2009
21 July 2009
1 August 2009
5 August 2009				68,626 / 70,607	$7,926,798
6 August 2009
15 August 2009				36,062 / 49,999	$3,517,564
17 August 2009				15,479 / 15,479	$2,648,659
19 August 2009				35,903 / 35,903	$5,054,620
Total				265,611 / 281,529 (94%)	$31,923,303

Set list

1. Drive My Car
2. Jet
3. Only Mama Knows
4. Flaming Pie
5. Got to Get You into My Life
6. Let Me Roll It (with Foxy Lady ending)
7. Highway
8. The Long and Winding Road
9. My Love
10. Blackbird
11. Here Today
12. Dance Tonight
13. Calico Skies
14. Michelle (played only in Washington, in honour of Michelle Obama)
15. It is So Easy (played only in Texas, as a tribute to Buddy Holly)
16. Mrs. Vandebilt
17. Eleanor Rigby
18. Sing the Changes
19. Band on the Run
20. Back in the U.S.S.R.
21. I'm Down
22. Something
23. I've Got a Feeling
24. Paperback Writer
25. A Day in the Life/Give Peace a Chance
26. Let It Be
27. Live and Let Die
28. Hey Jude
    1st Encore:
29. Mull of Kintyre (Halifax)^[4]
30. Day Tripper
31. Lady Madonna
32. I Saw Her Standing There (with Billy Joel on 17 July at Citi Field)
    2nd Encore:
33. Yesterday
34. Helter Skelter
35. Get Back
36. Sgt. Pepper's/The End medley

External links

• Paul McCartney.com - official website
• Paul McCartney Central - fansite with concert tour listing

Notes and References

1. Web site: McCartney Plays First Concert Ever at Citi Field . . 18 July 2009 . 30 September 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090802232501/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8116393 . 2 August 2009 .
2. 12 September 2009. Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses. Billboard. 121. 36. 10. 0006-2510. 25 May 2011.
3. News: TIMELINE: Halifax concert cash . Cbc.ca . 25 Mar 2011 . 2023-05-16.
4. Web site: gsparaco . Paul McCartney – Live On The Commons Halifax 2009 . Collectors Music Reviews . 22 September 2009 . 17 May 2023.