The inaugural Adopt-A-Minefield Benefit Gala took place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in LA on 14th June 2001. The aim was to bring awareness to a campaign that Paul felt had been neglected following the tragic death of Princess Diana. As well as performing a number of songs on his own, Paul was joined on stage by Paul Simon, marking the first time the two musicians had ever collaborated. Paul went onto perform annually at this event until 2005.

Organised by Paul as a way of honouring the memories of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, The Concert for New York City was held at Madison Square Gardens on 20th October 2001 and was closed by Paul who premiered a new song, ‘Freedom’.

This star-studded concert – held annually to honour the Nobel Prize laureate – saw Paul join the line-up in 2001, closing the show with ‘Let It Be’.

Described simply by Rolling Stone as “All Killer, No Filler”, Paul’s shows on the Driving USA tour – in support of 2001's Driving Rain album – featured two and a half hours of hits and over 35 songs.

Held at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3rd June 2002, Party At The Palace was a concert in celebration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee. Paul performed alongside the likes of Bryan Adams, Tom Jones, Elton John and Will Young at the event, during which he broke into a spontaneous performance of ‘Her Majesty’, a 'secret track' taken from The Beatles' Abbey Road album.

Paul’s Back In The US Tour picked up where his Driving USA Tour had left off, just a few months before, sweeping through 23 more American cities.

Paul scarcely paused for breath after his Back In The US Tour, moving straight on down to Mexico for a further three dates.

Two major tours of the US and a short spell in Mexico were immediately followed by these dates in Japan, a visit that saw seeing hordes of fans literally chasing Paul down the street to try and get an autograph.

A Concert For George was held at the Royal Albert Hall on 29th November 2002 to commemorate the first anniversary of George Harrison's death. For his tribute, Paul performed 'Something' alone on ukulele before the song morphed into a full-band version.

The Back In The World Tour saw Paul return to Europe in 2003, where he breezed through a setlist of 41 classic tracks to enraptured crowds

In May 2004, Paul embarked on this 14-date European stadium tour which saw him play shows in places he had never been before, including Portugal and the Czech Republic. The tour culminated with Paul's now historic headline performance at Glastonbury Festival.

An annual, non-profit charity concert organised by Neil Young, Paul joined a stellar line-up of acts at the Bridge School Benefit Concert to perform a solo set and also collaborate with the fellow artists on the bill, including Tony Bennett.

On Sunday 6th February Paul and his band rocked their way through an explosive four-song set at the 2005 Super Bowl halftime show, performing the classics 'Drive My Car', 'Get Back', 'Live And Let Die' and 'Hey Jude'. This was Paul’s second Super Bowl appearance, and his performance was broadcast in more than 200 countries worldwide.

The concert on 2nd July 2005 in London’s Hyde Park was one of ten simultaneous events designed to mark 20 years since Live Aid and encourage the G8 group of nations to redouble their efforts to combat world poverty. Paul opened the show by sharing a stage with U2 to perform ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. Twelve hours later Paul returned to the stage to perform a string of hits, before being joined on stage for an all-star ending of 'Hey Jude'.

The US Tour was Paul's third North American concert tour of the 21st century and was in support of 2005's acclaimed Chaos And Creation In The Backyard album.

On June 7th 2007 Paul played an intimate secret show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden to a fevered crowd of a thousand people. With all the tickets disappearing within minutes of being announced, it was the hottest and most talked about show in town and was Paul’s first UK live performance since his legendary Glastonbury headline performance in 2004. Paul then flew to New York and then LA to perform another two surprise shows.

The iTunes Festival in 2007 saw over 60 acts play in the 350-capacity ICA venue throughout the month of July, with Paul’s show on 5th July being one of the main draws. As with all acts who performed, Paul went on to release an EP on iTunes featuring tracks from his rapturously received headline slot.

Paul returned to Paris's glamorous Olympia venue on 22nd October 2007, following previous shows there with Wings and The Beatles and treated the crowd to a 24-strong set focusing on a heady mix of classics from throughout his career.

As part of the BBC's Electric Proms series held in the iconic Roundhouse venue in London, Paul unveiled his full canon of classics in front of a rapturous audience. As well as the songs played as everyone remembers them, Paul also introduced a string octet on stage for breath-taking renditions of ‘Only Mama Knows’ and ‘Calico Skies’.

A celebratory show at the legendary home of Liverpool Football Club on 1st Jun 2008, held to mark the city’s year as European Capital of Culture. Supported by the Kaiser Chiefs and The Zutons and with a surprise cameo from Dave Grohl for Paul's set, Liverpool Sound 2008 was a huge success, with Paul paying tribute to both George Harrison and Linda and including an anthemic run through of Lennon's 'Give Peace A Chance'.

At the invitation of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Paul performed to hundreds of thousands of people in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine on 14th June 2008. This groundbreaking event was free to attend and was broadcast live on Ukraine’s Novy TV to millions of people as well as on screens in cities across the country.

43 years after being banned by the Israeli government, Paul played the Friendship First concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday 25th September 2008, marking the first time he'd played in the Middle Eastern country.

On 4th April 2009, Paul headlined the Change Begins Within benefit concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Change Begins Within raised funding and awareness for the David Lynch Foundation to help teach one million at-risk children to meditate, giving them life-long tools to overcome stress and promote peace and success in their lives.

Paul joined a stellar line up at the tenth Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in 2009, held at the Empire Polo Club in a dessert setting in Indio, California. The show on 17th April 2009 marked Paul’s first ever US festival appearance.

Two nights after his acclaimed headline slot at the Coachella festival, Paul down-sized to Las Vegas' 4,000 capacity venue The Joint, to help celebrate the opening of the Hard Rock Hotel's newly refurbished venue. In the process, Paul broke records by selling out the venue in just seven seconds.

The Halifax Common is an urban park situated in Canada's Halifax Regional Municipality, which has recently played host to rock concerts, as well as sporting events. On 11th July 2009, Paul played to over 50,000 fans, following in the footsteps of the likes of the late Princess Diana and Pope John Paul II in attracting huge crowds.

The Summer Live '09 tour was Paul's fourth North American concert tour of the 21st Century. The tour is best remembered perhaps for Paul’s three nights at the new Citi Field in New York City on July 17th, 18th and 21st, due to the special significance of the venue. When The Beatles played Shea Stadium (as it was then) on August 15th, 1965, it was the first rock concert in a major stadium, with a sold-out crowd of 55,600. Over the three nights at Citi Field, 109,397 people watched Paul perform.

Kicking off, appropriately enough, in Hamburg, the seven-city Good Evening Europe tour followed a summer jaunt across America. Incredibly, it had been 49 years since The Beatles’ historic visit to Hamburg, those early shows now ingrained in rock folklore.