" Macca debuts two Fireman tunes for Coachella "
http://www.maccareport.com/COACHELLA SET LIST
Jet
Drive My Car
Only Mama Knows
Flaming Pie
Got to Get You Into My Life
Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady coda
Honey Hush
Highway
The Long and Winding Road
My Love
Blackbird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Calico Skies
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Eleanor Rigby
Sing the Changes
Band on the Run
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Something
I've Got a Feeling
Paperback Writer
A Day in the Life /Give Peace a Chance
Let It Be
Live and Let Die
Hey Jude
First encore:
Birthday
Can't Buy Me Love
Lady Madonna
Second encore:
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
The End
" Sir Paul dedicates show to Linda
Sir Paul's set included two encores and ended with a Hey Jude sing-a-long
Sir Paul McCartney has headlined the Coachella music festival in the Californian desert on the anniversary of the death of his wife Linda.
In an emotional performance, the ex-Beatle dedicated The Long and Winding Road and My Love to Linda, who died from breast cancer in 1998.
He played a two-and-a-half hour set for 75,000 fans on the first night of the festival, one of the biggest in the US.
The Killers and The Cure are topping the bill on Saturday and Sunday.
Sir Paul told the BBC the significance of the date meant he almost did not agree to perform.
"Linda introduced me to the desert because she used to go to Arizona a lot, so I just fell in love with it," he said.
"At first I thought, oh god, I can't do a show on that day. But then it was like, well, no, it's the desert, it's music, it's rock 'n' roll... I'm doing it for Linda tonight."
Sir Paul's set included two encores and ended with a massive Hey Jude sing-a-long.
It was his first performance at the show, held 120 miles east of Los Angeles, which he had only come across recently.
"I'd actually never heard of it," he said. "Nigel Godrich, Radiohead's producer, [who] I worked with a couple of albums ago, he comes here every year and he kept saying: 'I love it, I love it, I love it.'
"And I thought, well, it's gotta have something 'cause he's got good taste."
The festival features a healthy line up of British artists, also including Paul Weller, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, The Ting Tings and White Lies.
Adele and Duffy made waves at the same festival last year, and Sir Paul agreed that it was a good time for UK acts.
"We make good music, that's the nice thing about Britain," he said. "We seem to produce people who love rock 'n' roll, love soul, dance music... whereas it just used to be America really in my book.
"But one of the big forces in music today is Britain. Yo for Britain I say!"
Figures released this week showed that one in every 10 albums bought in the US last year was by a British artist. "
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April 18, 2009 -- Los Angeles Times
" Paul McCartney's fab night at Coachella
Much ado was made the minute Coachella Music & Arts Festival chief Paul Tollett announced that Paul McCartney would be one of the 2009 headliners. He's too old, some griped. Coachella's for Gen X and Y, not the dreaded Boomers, others sniped. He's too populist...he'll dull Coachella's hip factor.
The verdict from his Coachella debut on Friday? Never underestimate the power of a Beatle.
Perhaps some fans stayed away because a member of the world's most popular rock band showed up, but for the ones who didn't, the night belonged to Paul.
Pity the poor acts who had to go on opposite him while 95% of those still on hand for the conclusion of Friday's opening show packed themselves like so many sardines as close to the big Coachella stage as they could. The Crystal Method still drew a few thousand dance-minded fans into the Sahara Tent, but thrash rock band Genghis Tron only landed 100 or so for its evening closing show, while Gustavo Santoalalla's scintillating group Bajofondo pulled in 700 or 800.
Many on hand for McCartney couldn't get any nearer than a quarter mile away, and they were grateful for video screens about 40 feet tall on either side of the stage magnifying that still-cherubic smile for all to see.
McCartney in turn delivered a two-hour-plus show in as strong a voice as he's exhibited in his Southland stops in recent years, and one with a goodly number of surprise choices that took the set well beyond the Beatles/Wings greatest hits run-through he easily could have fallen back on.
He opened with "Jet," from his 1975 album "Band on the Run," rocking hard at the outset as if to counter those who consider him an overly sentimental pop romantic. Which he is, but he used Coachella to exploit the visceral energy of early rock that so strongly influenced him, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, especially in his rendition of Big Joe Turner's raucous "Honey Hush."
"Let Me Roll It," a soul-rock shouter, found him as gritty as one can get who has so powerful an attraction to pop melody and fetching harmonies. He included a couple from his more experimentalist side project "The Fireman," along with individual tributes to his wife Linda, who died 11 years ago to the day on Friday, Lennon and Harrison.
"It's an emotional day for me," McCartney, 66, said as though he were chatting with a few friends in his living room rather than tens of thousands of cheering fans. "But that's OK. That's good."
Even when it seemed he couldn't top himself after a fireworks-laden rendition of his James Bond movie theme "Live and Let Die," after which he led a monumental singalong on "Hey Jude," out came three more Beatles barnstomers: "Birthday," "Can't Buy Me Love" and "Lady Madonna."
Hip comes and hip goes, but McCartney proved once again, a great pop song lasts forever. "