Paul McCartney and former Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr are set to reunite for a one-off concert in Las Vegas in 2027.
The pair will be perform at Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh‘s VetsAid music festival on January 27 next year alongside the likes of The Killers, The War On Drugs, St. Vincent and Lucius at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Further acts will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Join me on stage with my musical heroes Paul and Ringo (and more surprise guests),” Walsh said. “Support our veterans and support each other.”
A veterans and active-duty pre-sale begins today (November 10) at 10am local time before tickets go on general sale this Friday (November 13) at 10am local time. You can find more information here.
All net proceeds from the festival will go towards veteran-related charities co-ordinated with the Combined Arms Institute.
The show will be the first time McCartney and Starr will have performed together live since the former’s show at The O2 in London on December 19, 2024. They played ‘Helter Skelter’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at the time as part McCartney’s ‘Got Back’ tour.
More recently the pair teamed up on the track ‘Home To Us’ on McCartney’s recent album ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’.
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It is the first music the two Beatles icons have made together as a duet, which also featured Sharleen Spiteri and The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde on guest vocals. McCartney played the majority of instruments on the song – much like on his 1970 solo debut album, ‘McCartney’ – and it was produced by Andrew Watt.
Sharing what inspired the song, McCartney said at the time: “Ringo went round to the studio and drummed a bit. I said to Andrew, we should make a track and send it to him. So this song is done totally with Ringo in mind…”
“In writing the song I’m talking about where we came from. In common with a lot of people, you come from nothing and you build yourself up. Ringo was from the Dingle, and that was well hard. He said he used to get mugged coming home, because he worked. Even though it was crazy, it was home to us,” he added.
The last time the two surviving Beatles members worked together was on the 2023 standalone track ‘Now And Then’ – which was made around a vocal track from John Lennon unearthed in 1994, and labelled as the “final” song from the Fab Four.
The upcoming collaboration comes after McCartney officially became a billionaire and also the world’s third wealthiest musician.
Meanwhile, NME gave ‘The Boys Of Dungeon Lane’ a four-star review, and described it as “a guided tour of the long and winding road”. Ahead of the album’s release, McCartney sat down with NME to look forwards and back on his extraordinary career, share his “excitement” at contributing to the new The Rolling Stones album, and also revealed if he had any plans to retire.
Since then, the musician has released a Special Edition of the record, which features four new songs including a reimagined version of ‘Home To Us’, and also thrown his full support behind the upcoming Sam Mendes Beatles biopics, but said that there is one small issue that made him reach out to the director.
The films in question are the four-movie biopic series slated for a simultaneous release in April 2028. They will star Paul Mescal as McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Starr. Each of the four films will tell the story of the band from a different member’s point of view, and mark the first scripted Beatles movies made with the full approval of Apple Corps and the surviving band members, as well as access to the group’s music rights.