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.

Although McCartney was promoting Driving Rain, the majority of the tour setlist celebrated his past,[2] 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.

[12] This gesture was a further attempt by McCartney to establish his legacy following Lennon's death in 1980,[13] 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.

[citation needed] 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.

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.