LONDON — Paul McCartney’s Glastonbury Competition present was two years late. Followers thought it was well worth the wait.
The previous Beatle pulled out all of the stops – and introduced on big-name rock ’n’ roll visitor stars – for a 2½-hour live performance on the southwest England pageant on Saturday evening.
McCartney was as a result of play Glastonbury in 2020. That yr’s pageant and the 2021 version had been each scuttled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, at 80, he’s the pageant’s oldest-ever solo headliner.
McCartney and his band handled the massive crowd to Beatles classics like “Get Again,” “Hey Jude,” “Blackbird” and “Let it Be,” together with solo hits together with “Stay and Let Die” and newer materials.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl got here on to play “Noticed Her Standing There” and “Band on the Run.” Then Bruce Springsteen and McCartney – the Boss and the Beatle – dueted on Springsteen’s “Glory Days” and the early Lennon-McCartney music “I Wanna Be Your Man.”
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McCartney paid tribute to Beatles bandmate George Harrison, who died in 2001, by performing the Harrison-penned “One thing.” Due to expertise, he sang with footage of John Lennon, murdered in 1980, on “I’ve Acquired a Feeling.”
“I believe I’ve in all probability simply seen one of the vital legendary performances ever,” fan Jake Richardson stated after the present.
Actor-comedian Steve Coogan, who was additionally within the crowd, described the expertise as “fairly overwhelming.”
“I don’t suppose there’s anybody else on this planet who can simply give such unadulterated pleasure to individuals,” he informed the BBC.
Glastonbury wraps up Sunday with a headline set by Kendrick Lamar.
Some 200,000 individuals are attending the four-day pageant at Worthy Farm in southwest England, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
The three,000 performers included Billie Eilish, Ziggy Marley, Megan Thee Stallion, Foals, Olivia Rodrigo, Diana Ross, Herbie Hancock and the Pet Store Boys.
Company additionally included environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who made a passionate speech about local weather change, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who addressed the pageant by video on Friday.
