Paul McCartney performs Beatles track live for first time ever

Paul McCartney performed a "new" Beatles track live for the first time ever during his set in Montevideo, Uruguay surprising unsuspecting fans with the tune on the opening night of his long-awaited Got Back tour.

According to NME, the icon kicked off the tour with a special performance of the 2023 Beatles track, Now and Then, standing out as the song's stage debut.

The single, penned in the '70s and completed in 2023 with the wonders of modern AI technology, features Paul, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon travelling through time to bring the Beatles together from various decades.

Video footage captured by a fan present at the show depicts Paul serenading the audience with the career-spanning single from behind the piano as clips highlighting precious moments with his bandmates over the years flash on the screen behind him.

NME mentioned that in addition to performing Now and Then live for the first time since its creation, Paul dedicated a slew of songs to impactful people in his life including Something (sung for Harrison), My Valentine (sung for his wife Nancy Shevell), and Here Today (sung for Lennon).

The standout also performed I've Got a Feeling as a virtual duet with John and a track he wrote with his first band, The Quarrymen (who would later become The Beatles), titled, In Spite Of All The Danger.

Along with an endless list of Beatles classics, he also dazzled the crowd with a few solo tracks and singles penned during his time with Wings including Junior's Farm, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five, and of course, Band on the Run to conclude an epic 37-track setlist.

Watch Now and Then above.

- Written by iHeart.com and republished with edits and permission