On Friday, September 7th, music icon Paul McCartney released his seventeenth studio album, Egypt Station, marking the first new album from The Beatles‘ singer/songwriter/guitarist in five years, via Capitol Records. To celebrate the occasion, McCartney performed a “secret” show at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal on Friday night, with the full concert live-streamed for free via YouTube.
Per Rolling Stone, around 200 folks made it into the secret performance, which took place in Vanderbilt Hall, including a mix of fans and celebrity attendees including Meryl Streep, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Jimmy Fallon, and Jon Bon Jovi.
While the show was meant to serve as a special launch party for Egypt Station, Paul McCartney and company were not shy about giving fans plenty of older fare. In fact, the former Beatle only performed three songs off the new album—”Who Cares”, “Come On To Me”, and “Fuh You”—instead sticking with older material to round out the setlist. With fewer ballads than a traditional McCartney show, Paul was in a great mood, running through fan-favorites from across his career—including the first U.S. performance of “From Me To You” since 1964.
You can watch the full concert for yourself below, and you can read Rolling Stone‘s first-hand account of the show here.
Paul McCartney – Live From NYC – Full Video
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Setlist: Paul McCartney | Grand Central Terminal | New York, NY | 9/7/2018
Set: “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Hi, Hi, Hi”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Letting Go”, “I’ve Got a Feeling”, “Come on to Me”, “My Valentine”, “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five”, “From Me to You”^, “Love Me Do”, “FourFiveSeconds”, “Blackbird”, “Dance Tonight”, “Who Cares”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “Fuh You”, “Back in the U.S.S.R.”, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, “Birthday”, “Lady Madonna”, “Let It Be”, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”, “Helter Skelter”, “Golden Slumbers”, “Carry That Weight”, “The End”
^first U.S. performance since 1964