Paul McCartney Adds San Antonio to Tour But Where's Dallas?

Last week, Paul McCartney announced new dates for his marathon Got Back Tour, which technically began in 2022. Just like the last 60 years of popular music, McCartney has remained in the spotlight recently, with a string of impromptu sold-out shows at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City and the closing performance on the SNL 50th Anniversary special.

The initial run of Got Back Tour dates included a May 2022 stop at Dickies Arena, which marked the icon's first show in North Texas since his 2019 date at Globe Life Park in Arlington. It's continued annually ever since, embarking on trips through South America, Australia and Europe. Now in 2025, McCartney returns to the States for a 19-stop run through some smaller towns that weren't included on the initial tour. Namely, a stop in San Antonio on Oct. 25 at the Alamodome and Tulsa, Oklahoma on Oct. 22, passing over North Texas entirely.

The 2019 show in Arlington was one of the best nights of music the region has ever seen. McCartney steamrolled through a 38-song setlist that managed to pack an equal punch of his Beatles, Wings and solo songs. It was part of the Freshen Up Tour, which came just months after the release of Egypt Station, which marked his 25th solo release.

Seeing McCartney open with "A Hard Day's Night" and subsequently unleash thousands of older North Texans' long-dormant Beatlemania all at once was an unforgettable memory. Hearing and feeling the ridiculously extravagant firework show companion to "Live and Let Die" almost burst our eardrums and blinded us at the same time, and it would've been a happy death to our senses. He closed the evening with "Carry That Weight" into "The End" from Abbey Road and we basically ascended into musical heaven.

Very few can fly that close to musical perfection. Even at his age — he will turn 83 in June — McCartney exists in his own stratosphere, where his only true contemporaries are Stevie Wonder and Led Zeppelin as a four-piece unit, but that's a conversation for another day.

We don't want to be greedy, but with respect to Sir Paul's stamina, couldn't we squeeze in a Dallas show during those off days? Surely, American Airlines can be free in a pinch. Dare we say Dos Equis Pavilion? If not, my backyard works, too. Invite only.