{"id":2061217,"date":"2025-10-01T03:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2061217"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:37:25","slug":"leonardo-dicaprio-celine-dion-bill-gates-seen-at-paul-mccartney-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/leonardo-dicaprio-celine-dion-bill-gates-seen-at-paul-mccartney-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DiCaprio, Celine Dion, Bill Gates seen at Paul McCartney tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/wochit\/thumbnails\/86431462007.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Beatles fan shares how &#8216;Yellow Submarine&#8217; changed his life<\/p>\n<p>Chase Ciccotti, 22, of Murrieta, shared how he was introduced to the Beatles ahead of Paul McCartney&#8217;s Acrisure Arena show on Monday, Sept. 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paul McCartney&#8217;s concert on Monday<strong>, <\/strong>Sept. 29 at Acrisure Arena was more than just a packed setlist of classic songs.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which served as the official opening night of his Got Back North American Tour 2025, featured many surprises, including special guests in the audience, the use of innovative technology and some pyrotechnic elements to keep things exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three things you might have missed at Paul McCartney&#8217;s tour opener on Monday night.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Celebrity sightings at the Paul McCartney tour opener<\/h2>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Our full concert review: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/30\/paul-mccartney-tour-opening-night-offered-nostalgia-surprises\/86248377007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney&#8217;s voice isn&#8217;t what it once was. The Got Back tour reminds us not to care<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>McCartney&#8217;s concerts are known for attracting celebrities. Acrisure Arena staffers told The Desert Sun that Leonardo DiCaprio, Celine Dion, John Mayer, and Bill Gates attended the concert on Monday. Tobey Maguire was also spotted in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2016\/10\/13\/fans-get-one-one-paul-mccartney-pappy-harriets\/92036414\/\">during his surprise concert at Pappy and Harriet&#8217;s<\/a>, Queens of the Stone Age frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/2022\/11\/12\/rock-plaza-featuring-alice-cooper-and-josh-homme-raises-200-000\/10663393002\/\">Josh Homme<\/a>, singer-songwriter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/2019\/12\/18\/frank-sinatra-josh-homme-and-nat-king-cole-put-christmas-music-in-palm-springs-history\/2669208001\/\">Victoria Williams<\/a> and artist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/arts\/2024\/12\/04\/palm-springs-art-museum-showcases-david-hockney-in-new-exhibition\/76507709007\/\">David Hockney<\/a> attended the show.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">McCartney pays tribute to members of The Beatles<\/h2>\n<p>During the song &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; a video played featuring McCartney and Ringo Starr interacting with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/30\/paul-mccartney-tour-opening-night-offered-nostalgia-surprises\/86248377007\/\">the AI-generated visuals of their late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison<\/a> and the younger versions of themselves. It was touching and also frightening, and many appear to have feelings about this particular video.<\/p>\n<p>As concerns grow regarding the use of AI in entertainment, the video serves as a stunning and emotional tribute to Lennon and Harrison. It also offers a playful way for McCartney and Starr to poke fun at themselves. But this raises important questions about the ethics of using posthumous representations of entertainers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Fan interviews: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/29\/paul-mccartney-tour-brings-together-fans-of-all-ages-in-palm-desert-acrisure-arena\/86373287007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">From toddlers to college kids playing hooky, the Paul McCartney tour opener had it all<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Pyrotechnics during &#8216;Live and Let Die&#8217; fed into internet meme<\/h2>\n<p>During McCartney&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Live and Let Die,&#8221; the song transitioned between symphonic arrangements and symphonic rock. Some of these transitions featured loud, explosion-like pyrotechnics that scared some fans, while others laughed.<\/p>\n<p>What was so funny? There&#8217;s an internet trend of Beatles\/McCartney fans making memes of &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221; performances where the pyrotechnic affects appear to explode right in front of McCartney after he sings the word &#8220;die.&#8221; The official McCartney TikTok account even made a video compilation of such moments and posted it in 2023 with the caption &#8220;50 years of exploding on stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the flames shot up from the Acrisure stage during &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221; on Monday, many fans had to capture the moment and continue the trend \u2014 though the pyrotechnics were relatively mild compared to those at Desert Trip in 2016.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 exclude-from-newsgate wp-block-heading\">Paul McCartney setlist 2025<\/h2>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Didn&#8217;t catch the show, or want to relive the night by reviewing the setlist?<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">See everything McCartney played here: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/life\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/09\/29\/paul-mccartney-got-back-setlist-starts-with-help-includes-the-hits\/86421097007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Paul McCartney tour setlist features hits from The Beatles as well as his solo career<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brian Blueskye covers arts\u00a0and entertainment for the Desert Sun. He\u00a0can be reached at brian.blueskye@desertsun.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.desertsun.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatles fan shares how &#8216;Yellow Submarine&#8217; changed his life Chase Ciccotti, 22, of Murrieta, shared how he was introduced to the Beatles ahead of Paul McCartney&#8217;s Acrisure Arena show on Monday, Sept. 29. Paul McCartney&#8217;s concert on Monday, Sept. 29 at Acrisure Arena was more than just a packed setlist of classic songs. 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