“First time in 35 years.” When McCartney launched his 2025 Got Back tour, he surprised the crowd by opening with Help! — a Beatles classic he hadn’t sung in full for decades. The image captures him mid-moment, under lights, strings humming, memory and music colliding. In that space, decades compress: the early Beatles years, the flights of solo work, the constant push to remain present. That opening — lending voice to Help! all these years later — feels like more than nostalgia. It’s reclamation, confession, tribute. Behind that one note lies an entire journey: which songs stayed in the vault, which melodies he held back, how he chose this moment. The full story of what led him back to Help! is richer than what you see here.
Introduction For fans, a concert setlist often feels like a guided memory tour. So when Paul McCartney opened the 2025…