--- description: The 'Help!' track was performed in Tokyo title: Paul McCartney Performs Beatles Hit for the First Time image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Paul McCartney Performs Beatles Hit 'Another Girl' for the First Time by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2015 2:46 PM CUT by [Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 29, 2015 2:46 PM CUT Neither the Beatles nor any single members of the Beatles had ever played “Another Girl” live, the fifth track off 1965’s _Help!,_ until now: [Paul McCartney](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/07/17/paul-mccartney-rolling-stone-beatles "undefined") performed the song at Japan’s Nippon Budokan Tuesday, according to [_NME_](http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/84997 "undefined"). McCartney last played at the venue in the summer of 1966 when [The Beatles](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/02/09/the-beatles-gave-birth-to-a-new-world "undefined") went on a short tour of Asia that also included shows in the Phillipines. He said playing there for the first time in almost 50 years was “sensational and quite emotional remembering the first time and then experiencing this fantastic audience,” [_NME_ reports](http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/84997 "undefined"). “It was thrilling for us and we think it was probably the best show we did in Japan and it was great to be doing the Budokan 49 years later. It was crazy. We loved it.” There’s no official footage of his performance of “Another Girl” currently, but [the ](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/paul-mccartney-another-girl-japan%5Fn%5F7164444.html "undefined")[_Huffington Post_](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/28/paul-mccartney-another-girl-japan%5Fn%5F7164444.html "undefined")did find a fan-shot video of it. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/paul-mccartney-beatles-another-girl?xid=IFT-Trending "undefined") _originally appeared on EW.com._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839914/paul-mccartney-beatles-another-girl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839914/paul-mccartney-beatles-another-girl/"},"headline":"Paul McCartney Performs Beatles Hit 'Another Girl' for the First Time","datePublished":"2015-04-29T14:46:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:46:35.177Z","description":"The 'Help!' track was performed in Tokyo","url":"https://time.com/3839914/paul-mccartney-beatles-another-girl/","keywords":["Music","Paul McCartney","Beatles"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ariana Bacle / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839914/paul-mccartney-beatles-another-girl/","name":"Paul McCartney Performs Beatles Hit 'Another Girl' for the First Time"}}]}] ```