Having kicked off over a year ago with the legendary July 15-16, 2011
doubleheader at New York City's Yankee Stadium that had 90,000 fans singing
along non-stop over the course of two near three-hour performances, and more
recently gifted Mexico with a historic free May 10 show drawing 250,000 to
Mexico City's central plaza, The Zocalo, Paul McCartney's record-breaking On The
Run Tour will round out 2012 by returning to North America for four shows:
November 11 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis MO, November 14 at Minute Maid
Park in Houston TX, November 25 at BC Place in Vancouver BC, and November 28 at
Rexall Place in Edmonton AB.
Paul's November 11 show at the Scottrade
Center will be his first St. Louis concert in ten years, his last appearance in
the city having been on the 2002 Back In The U.S. Tour, and having previously
played St. Louis' Busch Stadium twice: once on 1993's New World Tour and in 1966
with The Beatles.
Paul's November 14 date at Minute Maid Park--his first
Houston show in nearly seven years--is preceded by a similarly deep history, his
first Houston performance being The Beatles' 1965 concert at Sam Houston
Coliseum. Paul has since visited Houston in 1976 on the Wings Over America tour,
in 1993 on the New World Tour, in 2002 on the Back in the US Tour, and most
recently on The US Tour in 2005.
November 25 will end Paul's near 50-year
absence from Vancouver, the BC Place show being his first in the city since The
Beatles played Empire Stadium in 1964, while November 28 at Rexall Place will be
the first Paul McCartney concert ever in Edmonton, yet another On The Run date
bringing Paul McCartney to a new locale for the very first time--the latest on a
list already including Abu Dhabi, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay and
more.
Paul McCartney's On The Run Tour has played over 30 dates spanning
North and South America, the UK and Europe and the United Arab Emirates. The
November 2012 dates are Paul's first in the U.S. and Canada since the summer
2011 run that generated some of the most enthusiastic responses of Paul's
peerless career from audiences and critics alike, including:
"Mr.
McCartney is not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon
concerts. Friday's set ran two-and-a-half hours, with Mr. McCartney constantly
onstage, and it had 35 songs, not counting a few additional excerpts... His
concerts now are a gentle reminder of his survival and vitality... He
perseveres, and entertains, by directly reconnecting to his songs across the
decades and still having fun." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"In recent
years, McCartney has opted for sporadic runs of shows rather than full-on,
consecutive-date world tours. In turn, he seems to relish the stage all the more
when he does play live... 'I told you we were going to have a good time,' he
said during the encore. It was an offhand comment – but it's still astonishing
to see how much McCartney still cares." -- ROLLING STONE
"Paul
hasn't aged a bit. Nothing about the show was dated at all. Paul's voice and
musicianship were totally intact, his band was excellent, and the
clips/images/visuals screening on the stage's backdrop were widely appealing.
The sound at Yankee Stadium was also amazing, and Paul had no problem delivering
to the extremely large venue."
-- BROOKLYN VEGAN
"Paul
reminds people of their fabulous youth. That's a lot of youth: the crowd was
genuinely intergenerational... Changed my life" -- THE VILLAGE
VOICE
"Thunder and lightning raked across the sky over Comerica Park
Sunday night, but it was no match for the fireworks Paul McCartney mustered
onstage... his well-honed showmanship and impeccable music filled hearts and
minds in the sold-out ballpark... For three hours, we were all fab again"
-- THE DETROIT NEWS
"At times stirring, at times triumphant, and
always irresistibly fun, this was Paul McCartney's night in Detroit... an
evening of musical thrills and rich nostalgia for a spirited crowd of 38,000...
A little luck, a little magic, a lot of smiles, even a few tears, as McCartney
served up a set that launched with a bright 'Hello Goodbye' and wound through
nearly half a century of music." -- THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
"The
entire night was a thing of beauty. McCartney controlled the stage and the
crowd, and he could have played another three hours and people would have
stayed."
-- THE DETROIT METRO TIMES
"For almost three hours
and over three dozen songs Paul McCartney delivered a concert set that only
picked up steam as it went along... McCartney wrung new life out of tunes that
were were three to four times as old as quite a few of the folks in the
audience... made it impossible for anyone to leave feeling like they didn't get
everything they'd hoped for and more" -- CHICAGOIST
"Paul
McCartney could not just let it be Sunday in the first of two concerts at
Wrigley Field. He played for nearly three hours, wringing new rivers of passion
from songs he’s played hundreds of times." -- THE CHICAGO
TRIBUNE
"It's good to have McCartney still out there bashing through
shows with this much unbridled spirit. God knows he doesn't need to be, but he's
still touring because he obviously is still enjoying it — and his joy is
infectious." -- THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"There was an undeniable
rush watching Paul McCartney playing Wrigley Field on a warm Sunday night in a
show that ran over 2.5 hours and included three dozen songs. Paul McCartney may
be the world's greatest living, breathing, original document, a walking, talking
fragment of history whose meaning to the lives of millions, and whose place at
the fulcrum of pop culture, cannot be overstated. What makes McCartney on stage
such a particularly rewarding spectacle is just how much life he injects in his
past triumphs"
-- TIME OUT CHICAGO
"McCartney, a legitimate
legend cruised through three hours at Great American Ball Park. His energetic
manner that suggested he could have done three more... an inspiring
performance... a three-hour triumph." -- THE CINCINNATI
ENQUIRER
"It was the concert of a lifetime. For the thousands of baby
boomers in the audience of Paul McCartney's sold-out show at Great American Ball
Park Thursday night, it was the soundtrack of their lives. For their children,
it was the songs they grew up listening to with their parents. For their
children's children, it was an adventure" -- CINCINNATI
METROMIX
"For the better part of his performance last night at Great
American Ball Park in Cincinnati, live images of Paul McCartney were projected
onto a pair of towering video screens on each side of the stage... There he was,
Paul McCartney - still, after all these years, larger than life... Few things
compare to a pop colossus that continues to defy the years to do himself and his
revered music proud." -- THE LEXINGTON (KY) HERALD LEADER
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