Sir Ringo Starr and Sir Paul McCartney give Los Angeles a Knight to Remember

Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr were together on stage in Los Angeles on Saturday night giving Beatles fans a Knight to remember at Dodger Stadium.

Sir Paul is on his Freshen Up tour of the USA. Ringo joined him for a Beatles reunion of ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’ and ‘Helter Skelter’.

Incidentally, neither of these songs was ever performed live by The Beatles. By the time ‘Sgt Pepper’ was released in 1967 The Beatles had stopped touring. The last concert by The Beatles was 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album was released on 26 May 1967. ‘Helter Skelter’ from ‘The Beatles’ aka The White Album, was released 22 November 1968.

George Harrison once told Noise11.com that had The Beatles not stopped touring they would never have made ‘Sgt Pepper’. “If we’d have kept touring, we might not have gone into the studio to do those kind of intricate works,” George told Noise11.com. “But the last tour we did, I remember trying to do “Paperback Writer”, which had a kind of double-tracked vocal and all that stuff, and it was a bit embarrassing at the time. I remember, “This isn’t making it. This doesn’t sound very good.” So I don’t know, but the Beatle tours were something else. You would have had to have been there to know how ridiculous it was. There was no way we could have continued under those circumstances”.

Paul McCartney setlist Los Angeles, 13 July 2019

A Hard Day’s Night (from A Hard Days Night, 1964)
Junior’s Farm (single, 1974)
Can’t Buy Me Love (from A Hard Days Night, 1964)
Letting Go (from Venus and Mars, 1975)
Who Cares (from Egypt Station, 2018)
Got To Get You Into My Life (from Revolver, 1966)
Come On To Me (from Egypt Station, 2018)
Let Me Roll It (from Band On The Run, 1973)
Let ‘Em In (from Wings at the Speed of Sound, 1976)
My Valentine (from Kisses On The Bottom, 2012)
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (from Band On The Run, 1973)
Maybe I’m Amazed (from McCartney, 1969)
I’ve Just Seen A Face (from Help, 1965)
In Spite Of All The Danger (Quarrymen song)
From Me To You (from The Beatles single, 1963)
Dance Tonight (from Memory Almost Full, 2007)
Love Me Do (from Please Please Me, 1963)
Blackbird (from The Beatles, 1968)
Here Today (from Tug of War, 1982)
Queenie Eye (from New, 2013)
Lady Madonna (single 1968)
Eleanor Rigby (from Revolver, 1966)
Fuh You (from Egypt Station, 2018)
Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite (from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
Something (from Abbey Road, 1969)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (from The Beatles, 1968)
Band On The Run (from Band On The Run, 1973)
Back In The USSR (from The Beatles, 1968)
Let It Be (from Let It Be, 1970)
Live and Let Die (single 1973)
Hey Jude (single 1968)

Encore:
Birthday (from The Beatles, 1968)
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (with Ringo Starr) (from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967)
Helter Skelter (with Ringo Starr) (from The Beatles, 1968)
Golden Slumbers (from Abbey Road, 1969)
Carry That Weight (from Abbey Road, 1969)
The End (with Joe Walsh) (from Abbey Road, 1969)