Back in the U.S.

Using most of the musicians that appeared on Driving Rain, McCartney assembled a new live act composed of Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray on guitar, Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums and keyboardist Paul Wickens, who had been on McCartney's previous two tours, in 1989–90 and 1993.Sounes, pp. 510–11. As of 2022, these four musicians are still members of McCartney's touring band.

Although McCartney was promoting Driving Rain, the majority of the tour setlist celebrated his past, by featuring a sampling of his solo work with and without Wings, and a substantial number of the hits he had written while a member of the Beatles.Sounes, pp. 512–13. On Back in the U.S., McCartney reversed the songwriting credits for 19 Lennon–McCartney compositions to read "Paul McCartney and John Lennon" – a move that author Howard Sounes describes as the live album's "chief point of interest". This gesture was a further attempt by McCartney to establish his legacy following Lennon's death in 1980,{{cite web|last=Garcia |first=Gilbert |url=http://www.salon.com/2003/01/27/paul_yoko/ |title=The Ballad of Paul and Yoko |work=Salon |date=28 January 2003 |access-date=11 November 2014 }} having been vetoed from adopting the McCartney–Lennon credit during the Beatles Anthology project in 1995 by his former bandmates George Harrison and Ringo Starr.Kimsey, pp. 197–200.

The revised credits on Back in the U.S. incensed Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who threatened to take legal action,Kimsey, p. 197. while Starr said he found McCartney's actions "underhanded".Sounes, p. 518.Doggett, p. 340. Some commentators observed that McCartney had similarly credited his Beatles songs to "McCartney–Lennon" on the 1976 live album Wings over AmericaDoggett, p. 339. and that Lennon had never publicly objected to the reversal;Rodriguez, p. 172. in addition, the compositions in question were written with little or no input from Lennon.Doggett, pp. 139, 140. When compiling Back in the U.S., McCartney had decided to act in response to Ono's dropping of his co-writer's credit for "Give Peace a Chance", on the 1997 compilation Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} Despite their differences on this issue, McCartney and Starr united on stage for the Harrison tribute concert shortly after the release of the live album.Sounes, pp. 518–19.

Back in the U.S. was issued in November 2002 as an exclusive North American and Japanese release (an international edition with a slight track listing change, entitled Back in the World, was released a few months later). Back in the U.S. sold well on export and gained sales of over 2 million globally. The album debuted at number 8 on the US charts with sales of 224,000 copies, marking his highest sales during a single week since the introduction of Nielsen SoundScan in 1991.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73249/twain-remains-up-top-on-billboard-chart|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030219174309/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73249/twain-remains-up-top-on-billboard-chart|archive-date=19 February 2003 |title=DailyMusicNews |magazine=Billboard |editor=Jonathan Cohen|date=4 December 2002|access-date=19 February 2003}} The album was certified double platinum in America, for shipments of over 2 million units. It entered the top five on the Japanese chart, making McCartney one of the Western artists with the most top-ten albums in that country.{{cite web| url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/65643/full/| title= (The Carpenters' album debut at the top-3 on the Japanese chart for the first time)| language= ja| work=oricon.co.jp|series=Oricon Style| access-date=23 November 2009}} Its tie-in DVD proved to be a strong seller as well. Back in the U.S. was the first Paul McCartney album not released on vinyl.

All songs written by Paul McCartney–John Lennon, except where noted.

1. "Hello, Goodbye" – 3:46 (Detroit)
2. "Jet" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 4:02 (Dallas night 1 + 8 seconds of DC night 1)
3. "All My Loving" – 2:08 (Cleveland)
4. "Getting Better" – 3:10 (Denver)
5. "Coming Up" (Paul McCartney) – 3:26 (New York City Madison Square Garden Night 1)
6. "Let Me Roll It" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 4:24 (Chicago Night 2)
7. "Lonely Road" (Paul McCartney) – 3:12 (Sunrise night 1)
8. "Driving Rain" (Paul McCartney) – 3:11 (Chicago night 2)
9. "Your Loving Flame" (Paul McCartney) – 3:28 (New York City Madison Square Garden Night 1)
10. "Blackbird" – 2:30 (Boston)
11. "Every Night" (Paul McCartney) – 2:51 (Dallas night 1)
12. "We Can Work It Out" – 2:29 (Chicago night 2)
13. "Mother Nature's Son" – 2:11 (Dallas Night 2)
14. "Vanilla Sky" (Paul McCartney) – 2:29 (Dallas night 2)
15. "Carry That Weight" – 3:05
16. * From start to 1:58, the song "You Never Give Me Your Money" is played. (Tampa)
17. "The Fool on the Hill" – 3:09 (DC Night 1)
18. "Here Today" (Paul McCartney) – 2:28 (Toronto)
19. * McCartney's tribute to John Lennon
20. "Something" (George Harrison) – 2:33 (Tampa)
21. * A tribute cover of one of George Harrison's most famous songs, played on the ukulele – one of Harrison's favourite instruments

1. "Eleanor Rigby" – 2:17 (Denver)
2. "Here, There and Everywhere" – 2:26 (Chicago night 2)
3. "Band on the Run" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 5:00 (Dallas night 1)
4. "Back in the U.S.S.R." – 2:55 (Dallas night 1)
5. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney) – 4:48 (East Rutherford)
6. "C Moon" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:51 (DC night 1)
7. "My Love" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 4:03 (Dallas night 1)
8. "Can't Buy Me Love" – 2:09 (Atlanta night 2)
9. "Freedom" (Paul McCartney) – 3:18 (Dallas night 1)
10. "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:05 (Dallas night 1)
11. "Let It Be" – 3:57 (Atlanta night 2)
12. "Hey Jude" – 7:01 (NYC Madison Square Garden Night 1)
13. "The Long and Winding Road" – 3:30 (Denver)
14. "Lady Madonna" – 2:21 (NYC Madison Square Garden night 1)
15. "I Saw Her Standing There" – 3:08 (Sunrise)
16. "Yesterday" – 2:08 (Dallas night 1)
17. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" / "The End" – 4:39 (Sunrise night 1)

1. "Hello, Goodbye"
2. "Jet" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
3. "All My Loving"
4. "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
5. "Coming Up" (Paul McCartney)
6. "Blackbird"
7. "We Can Work It Out"
8. "Here, There, and Everywhere"
9. "Eleanor Rigby"
10. "Matchbox" (Carl Perkins)
11. "Your Loving Flame" (Paul McCartney)
12. "The Fool on the Hill"
13. "Getting Better"
14. "Here Today" (Paul McCartney)
15. "Something" (George Harrison)
16. "Band on the Run" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
17. "Let Me Roll It" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
18. "Back in the USSR"
19. "My Love" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney)
20. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney)
21. "Freedom" (Paul McCartney)
22. "Let it Be"
23. "Hey Jude"
24. "Can't Buy Me Love"
25. "Lady Madonna"
26. "The Long and Winding Road"
27. "Yesterday"
28. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" / "The End"
29. "I Saw Her Standing There"

1. "Driving Rain" (Paul McCartney)
2. "Every Night" (Paul McCartney)
3. "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Carry That Weight"

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• {{cite book|last=Doggett|first=Peter|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup|publisher=It Books|location=New York, NY|year=2011|isbn=978-0-06-177418-8}}
• Kimsey, John (2006). "Spinning the Historical Record: Lennon, McCartney, and Museum Politics". In: Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis (eds). Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. {{ISBN|978-0-7914-6716-9}}.
• {{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Robert|title=Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980|publisher=Backbeat Books|location=Milwaukee, WI|year=2010|isbn=978-1-4165-9093-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/missodellmyhardd00odel}}
• {{cite book|last=Sounes|first=Howard|title=Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|year=2010|isbn=978-0-00-723705-0}}

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