Sir Paul McCartney dazzled his fans on the opening night of his new ‘One On One’ tour with an exhaustive three-hour set in which he played a number of Beatles tracks not played in decades.

Taking to the stage at the Save Mart Centre in Fresno, California on Wednesday night (April 14th), the 73 year old singer rolled back the years to deliver a set of Springstonian proportions – even opening the gig with ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, a song he hasn’t played live since 1965.

Paul McCartneySir Paul McCartney is dazzling his fans with rarely-heard Beatles hits on his new tour

Having done so, he then embarked on a huge 38-song set that lasted more than three hours, playing a mixture of Beatles favourites and songs from his lengthy solo career. It even included a rendition of ‘Love Me Do’, which was the Fab Four’s first ever single in 1962, and went all the way up to his recent 2014 collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna called ‘FourFiveSeconds’.

McCartney kept things simple, at one point removing his jacket before saying, to cheers from the crowd: “That is the one and only wardrobe change of the whole evening.”

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Other Beatles tracks during the lengthy set included ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, ‘We Can Work It Out’, ‘Blackbird’ and ‘Hey Jude’ (of course). He had effectively given a warning to fans to expect the unexpected on the new career retrospective tour, when he said that it would contain “no shortage of surprises”.

The One On One tour is currently set to run for 30 dates across the United States, Argentina, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, Belgium, Czech Republic and Denmark. Fans also expect him to add some more dates onto this, in his native Britain.

The last few years have seen the legendary singer negotiate a gruelling touring schedule, when he wrapped a 91-date world tour spanning 19 countries only in October last year.

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