Macca played a medley of Lennon songs in Liverpool in the early 90's (it's on youtube): Strawberry Fields, Help and Give Peace A Chance (only the chrorus of the latter, like last night, which sort of takes all the charm out of it for me). I don't think he's played any other Lennon songs publicly and last night, to my knowledge, was the first time he's played A Day In The Life. Must've been thrilling to be there but on 'light of day' video evidence Macca's vocals on Strawberry Fields and Lennon's sections of A Day In The Life didn't match Lennon's vocals - but how could they? I'm sure Lennon couldn't sing Macca either. Of course Macca perked up for the 'woke up, got out of bed' section though.

I'd have been happy for more reent solo stuff to get an airing. He should have played "Ever Present Past" at least. You can find the full setlist online, the BBC cut alot of good ones out like "Let Me Roll It", "Coming Up" etc.

Macca performs. Yoko claps along merrily.

(I agree with Paul that he did sound a bit wobbly on the Lennon section. Perhaps it was just nerves - first time he'd sung it in public, and he might not even have been that sure of the words.)

Although it was the bit he wrote strangely - "made the bus in seconds flat" was repeated!

It was a wonderful gig actually - when he played 'Something' on the ukelele as a tribute to George it really was a special moment.

...on his 2002 US tour, but yes, it's a lovely version. Watched this in edited form on BBC2 and as ever with Paul, I found it thoroughly entertaining and uplifting- must have been even better being there.

Paul does offer many surprises in his set-lists- the 'Space Within US' tour had songs like 'Fixing A Hole', 'I'll Get You', 'Too Many People' and 'For No One'- but he and his band also play the classic hits with spirit.