IT WAS a triumphant Paul McCartney who held the O2 Academy stage for two-and-a-half hours last night, barely pausing for breath in a good-humoured homecoming gig packed with sing-along hits.
He saved the 1969 single Get Back until the end of his first encore, but it would have better fitted the introduction as the recently announced concert was, as the ex-Beatle said himself, a nostalgia trip.
Warmly greeting the audience as if they were a handful of people rather than a crowd of hundreds, Macca shared memories of Liverpool between songs; writing One After 909 with John Lennon in the McCartney’s Forthlin Road council house and being born in Walton Hospital – "in World War I," he cracked.
The set took in the Fab Four, Wings (Band on the Run, Jet), his 2008 album Electric Arguments created with record producer Youth (Highway) and solo work (Dance Tonight).
