The famed Beatle will be returning to the same San Antonio venue he helped christen in 1993.
SAN ANTONIO — The Alamodome has seen its share of major concerts this year, including appearances by Shakira and Post Malone, and a looming September date featuring The Weeknd.
But Oct. 25 will bring perhaps the glitziest name to rock out at any San Antonio venue this year.
The Alamodome announced Thursday morning that Sir Paul McCartney’s first North American tour in three years will bring him to San Antonio—the only currently scheduled Texas stop on the “Got Back Tour.”
Tickets go on sale Friday, Aug. 1, at 10 a.m.
McCartney, one of two surviving members of the Beatles along with Ringo Starr, is in his seventh decade of performing. Fans should expect to hear some trademark Beatles anthems like “Hey Jude” and “Let it Be” at the show, as well as Wings’ hits like “Band on the Run” and “Jet.”
McCartney has a special connection to San Antonio’s grandest venue: His May 1993 performance there was the Alamodome’s first major event. The 83-year-old rocker also played at the Tobin Center in 2014 and is five years removed from his last studio album, the Grammy-nominated “McCartney III.”
The Liverpool icon, for his part, has remained a fixture, inextricable from the lineage of pop music and deeply rooted in pop culture. The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road” are among the top-selling albums of all time, and a forthcoming quartet of Hollywood movies from director Sam Mendes will explore The Beatles from each of the band members’ perspectives (McCartney will be played, appropriately, by another Paul: Paul Mescal of “Gladiator II”).
The “Got Back Tour” promises to feature longtime bandmates of McCartney’s and “state-of-the-art audio and video technology” to enhance the production. The tour’s next leg kicks off Sept. 29 in California before heading to Las Vegas, Denver, Tulsa and other cities. It concludes with back-to-back shows in Chicago around Thanksgiving.