The 'US' Tour

The 'US' Tour

Tour by Paul McCartney
Associated album	Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Start date	16 September 2005
End date	30 November 2005
Number of shows	37
Box office	U.S. $77 million ($93.29 in 2016 dollars)[1]
Paul McCartney concert chronology

The US Tour was Paul McCartney's third North American concert tour of the 21st century to promote his 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard album. The tour began on 16 September 2005 in Miami, Florida and concluded on 30 November 2005 in Los Angeles, California. It was a commercial success grossing $77 million from 37 shows across North America and selling over 565,000 tickets. Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Paul "Wix" Wickens, and Abe Laboriel Jr. returned as the backing band, the first to fully remain intact for more than one solo McCartney tour, following the previous year's summer jaunt in the UK. McCartney's then-wife Heather Mills and their daughter, Beatrice, accompanied him on the tour and were in the audience every night.

On 12 November 2005 in Anaheim, California, two songs and some dialogue from the concert were broadcast to the International Space Station and astronauts Valeri Tokarev and Bill McArthur.^[2] The songs played were The Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine" and McCartney's "English Tea", a song from his Chaos and Creation in the Backyard album.

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance on 1 October 2005. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.^[3]

1. "Magical Mystery Tour"
2. "Flaming Pie"
3. "Jet"
4. "I'll Get You"
5. "Drive My Car"
6. "Till There Was You"
7. "Let Me Roll It/Foxy Lady"
8. "Got to Get You into My Life"
9. "Fine Line"
10. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
11. "The Long and Winding Road"
12. "In Spite of All the Danger"
13. "I Will"
14. "Jenny Wren"
15. "For No One"
16. "Fixing a Hole"
17. "English Tea"
18. "I'll Follow the Sun"
19. "Follow Me"
20. "Blackbird"
21. "Eleanor Rigby"
22. "Too Many People/She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"
23. "Good Day Sunshine"
24. "Band on the Run"
25. "Penny Lane"
26. "I've Got a Feeling"
27. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
28. "Hey Jude"
29. "Live And Let Die"
30. "Yesterday"
31. "Get Back"
32. "Helter Skelter"
33. "Please Please Me"
34. "Let It Be"
35. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)/The End"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
North America[4]
16 September 2005	Miami	United States	American Airlines Arena	15,011 / 15,536	$2,137,915
17 September 2005	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	15,268 / 16,325	$2,277,952
20 September 2005	Atlanta		Philips Arena	14,096 / 14,096	$1,930,941
22 September 2005	Philadelphia		Wachovia Center	32,930 / 32,930	$4,665,795
23 September 2005
26 September 2005	Boston		TD Banknorth Garden	29,582 / 29,582	$3,814,392
27 September 2005
30 September 2005	New York City		Madison Square Garden	63,867 / 63,867	$8,495,513
1 October 2005
4 October 2005
5 October 2005
8 October 2005	Washington, D.C.		MCI Center	15,813 / 15,813	$2,011,464
10 October 2005	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	16,924 / 16,924	$2,385,658
14 October 2005	Auburn Hills	United States	The Palace of Auburn Hills	33,511 / 33,511	$4,733,526
15 October 2005
18 October 2005	Chicago		United Center	32,647 / 32,647	$4,087,404
19 October 2005
22 October 2005	Columbus		Schottenstein Center	15,051 / 15,051	$1,978,288
23 October 2005	Milwaukee		Bradley Center	16,764 / 16,764	$2,090,400
26 October 2005	St. Paul		Xcel Energy Center	16,515 / 16,515	$2,377,200
27 October 2005	Des Moines		Wells Fargo Arena	14,204 / 14,204	$1,620,717
30 October 2005	Omaha		Qwest Center	15,162 / 15,162	$1,690,185
1 November 2005	Denver		Pepsi Center	15,091 / 15,091	$1,994,777
3 November 2005	Seattle		KeyArena	13,492 / 13,511	$2,105,150
4 November 2005	Portland		Rose Garden	15,834 / 15,933	$1,948,380
7 November 2005	San Jose		HP Pavilion	28,012 / 28,012	$3,649,232
8 November 2005
11 November 2005	Anaheim		Arrowhead Pond	28,632 / 28,632	$3,394,958
12 November 2005
16 November 2005	Sacramento		ARCO Arena	14,623 / 14,773	$1,971,370
29 November 2005	Houston		Toyota Center	14,151 / 14,151	$2,068,565
20 November 2005	Dallas		American Airlines Center	15,095 / 15,095	$2,116,940
23 November 2005	Glendale		Glendale Arena	14,802 / 14,802	$2,295,285
25 November 2005	Paradise		MGM Grand Garden Arena	29,535 / 29,535	$5,058,113
26 November 2005
29 November 2005	Los Angeles		Staples Center	31,149 / 31,149	$4,144,879
30 November 2005
Total				567,761 / 569,611	$77,044,999

Tour band

• Paul McCartney - Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, and piano
• Rusty Anderson - Backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
• Brian Ray - Backing vocals, acoustic, electric and bass guitars
• Paul "Wix" Wickens - Backing vocals, keyboards, accordion, electric guitar, harmonica, percussion
• Abe Laboriel, Jr. - Backing vocals, drums, percussion

References

1. Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
2. "Paul McCartney Provides First-Ever Live Station Wakeup Music". NASA. 25 November 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
3. "Paul McCartney / Oct. 1, 2005 / New York (Madison Square Garden)". Billboard. 14 October 2005. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
4. Box score:
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (41): 28. 8 October 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (42): 23. 15 October 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (43): 25. 22 October 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (44): 57. 29 October 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (45): 28. 5 November 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (45): 28. 5 November 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (46): 16. 12 November 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (47): 23. 19 November 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (48): 28. 26 November 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (49): 24. 3 December 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (50): 22. 10 December 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Concert Grosses". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 117 (51): 18. 17 December 2005. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
   • "Billboard Boxscore — Top 25 Boxscores". Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.) 118 (31): 36. 5 August 2006. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 25 May 2011.