Paul McCartney

It is the star's first public appearance since the death of Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins.

"Texas really embarrassing me right now, y'all. The hot girls and hot boys do not support this shit. - Something - New "It was fine. "Don't you love sisters?" "But rest assured, it's not my first time. "I've never seen so many people in my life," she exclaimed. We're back together." We've got some old songs for you, we've got some new song and we've got some in-betweeners... "Oh, man it's so good to be here. "This guy flew in specially to do this," McCartney said. They were rewarded with a marathon 2 hour 50 minute set that spanned his six-decade career.

Music icon Paul McCartney, who made history as the oldest ever headliner at Worthy Farm tonight at 80 years old, took to the Pyramid Stage - and ...

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Paul McCartney has made history as Glastonbury's oldest solo headliner as he kicked off his set on the Pyramid Stage. The former Beatle's headline show on ...

“I’ve got a little surprise for you. Right now is where we stand our ground.”— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) Ladies and gentlemen one more time – Dave Grohl. Speaking from the Pyramid Stage, the 19-year-old environment activist told the crowd she feels there is still hope for the world to choose a path which is “sustainable” and “leads to a future for everyone”. He also got the massive audience jiving along as he played his song Come On To Me. The third song the former Beatle played on the Pyramid Stage was Letting Go, which he released alongside his former band Wings.

The Beatle became the festival's oldest ever headliner at age 80.

McCartney first debuted the collaboration with his former co-songwriter on his recent US tour. “That’s so special for me man,” McCartney said following the collaboration. He said do you fancy that?”

Sir Paul McCartney has kicked off his Glastonbury headline slot with a rendition of The Beatles hit Can't Buy Me Love.

Paul smashes the 'fuh' out of the Pyramid stage, bringing out Dave Grohl, Bruce Springsteen and even virtual John Lennon.

Macca was preceded on the lineup by Noel Gallagher, who famously told the audience at Oasis’ seminal Knebworth Park show in 1996: “This is history.” So was this. You can’t argue with the songs, though: ‘Blackbird’, ‘Lady Madonna’ and under-appreciated randy banger ‘Fuh You’. The helter-skelter-style sense of a steady climb that’s about to lead to a dizzying rush is halted only when a dubious video of Johnny Depp accompanies ‘My Valentine’ – a song Paul wrote for his wife Nancy, released in 2011 – and cools the atmosphere somewhat. This starts with the Quarrymen’s ‘In Spite Of All The Danger’ and winds up at ‘Here Today’, the song he wrote in the wake of John Lennon’s death. We’re back together.” Bowing out after a Grohl and Spingsteen-assisted ‘Abbey Road’ medley, the 80-year-old goes over his billed time by a good 30 mins, having thrown absolutely everything he has – which is saying something for an actual Beatle – at Glastonbury 2022, sounding like a man who, frankly, knows he might not do this again. After opening with ‘Can’t Buy Me Love,’ he promises “some old songs, some new songs, some in betweeners:”, then spends the front portion of the show teasing with Wings tunes – including the Liquorice Pizza-rejuvenated ‘Let Me Roll It’ – and offering a potted history of the Beatles through song. People talk about ‘Glastonbury moments’: Macca’s joy bonanza of a set is packed with at least – at least – half a dozen of them, including the audience spontaneously singing him ‘Happy Birthday’ and later taking over the universal ‘Hey Jude’ refrain.

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This show was not The Beatle: McCartney and his band – joyous and bombastic trombones and saxophones, hypnotically good guitarists (that’s before Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen showed up, but we’ll get to that) and a drummer who danced the sprinkler and the macarena – had a sound modern, and all their own. McCartney – who turned 80 this week – was always the obvious choice to headline Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary festival (it is his second time, after his performance in 2004). A good Pyramid Stage headline show must be momentous, never just another stop on the tour but a spectacle so unique and of such gravitas that has punters asking, “were you there?” for decades to come. At the beginning of Paul McCartney’s Pyramid Stage show, it was hard not to bear his record – “oldest ever Glastonbury headliner” – in mind.

The singer-songwriter, who turned 80 a week ago, was the oldest ever solo headliner at Worthy Farm in south-west England, where the festival celebrated its ...

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Sir Paul, who become the oldest solo act to headline at Glastonbury Festival, took to the Pyramid stage 18 years after his last appearance at the Worthy Farm ...

Calling Grohl "a hero", Sir Paul said the musician "had said he'd come over, and I didn't believe him. Let's hear it for John." His request drew a rapturous and prolonged applause from the audience. We were supposed to be here three years ago. Thank you for coming." And they did quite well." We're back together."

Sir Paul McCartney has delivered a Glastonbury headline set for the history books which included surprise appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Foo ...

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Paul McCartney was joined by special guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl in an epic performance at Glastonbury on Saturday night.

Following his "friend from the west coast of America", McCartney introduced another surprise "from the east coast of America": Bruce Springsteen. The two played "Glory Days" and "I Wanna Be Your Man". - McCartney introduced another surprise "from the east coast of America": Bruce Springsteen. The two played "Glory Days" and "I Wanna Be Your Man." - Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl joined him for "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Band on the Run."

Ex-Beatle's gig seen by many in huge festival crowd as 'something to tell your grandkids about'

“It was phenomenal,” said 25-year-old Sorcha Ingram. “I had the time of my life. This was the first time I’d watched him, and my first time at Glastonbury. It’s a historic moment, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Some festival-goers had camped out all day to get close to the Pyramid stage and it turned out to be a sensible decision. “It was incredible. People behind us were in their 20s and they knew the songs backwards – that’s terrific testimony to the durability of the songs.” Of course he’s a pro – he’s been at it for half a century.

The former Beatle became the festival's oldest solo headliner during his electrifying set on the Pyramid Stage.

To end the historic set he sang the Beatles’ song The End to a cheering crowd with Springsteen and Grohl also returning to provide guitar solos. When he came back to the stage he was waving the Ukrainian flag while members of his band flew a rainbow Pride flag and the Union Jack. Following the rendition, he explained that he adds that section on at the end as a tribute to the “late great Jimi Hendrix”. Ahead of the song Here Today, he revealed he had written it after John Lennon died, describing it as a “form of a letter” which he never got to write to his bandmate as he said when they were kids they “couldn’t express too much affection for each other” as they were “too busy trying to be hard and dead cool”. To mark the momentous occasion, McCartney treated the masses in the crowd to a selection of his own songs as well as beloved tracks by The Beatles and from his later group Wings. As he took to the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, the former Beatle became the festival’s oldest solo headliner, a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday.

Dave Grohl joined Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen on stage at Glastonbury for his first performance since the death of Taylor Hawkins.

His Glastonbury set comes on the tail of McCartney’s 80th birthday, which the crowd honored with a “Happy Birthday” sing-along. During the remainder of the 38-song set, McCartney sang “I’ve Got a Feeling” with isolated vocals and a video of John Lennon, as he has been performing on his own tour. McCartney then surprised the audience with Bruce Springsteen, who joined the two on stage to play “Glory Days” as the former Beatle played bass and handled backing vocals.

Paul McCartney is making headlines for his performance at Glastonbury Festival in the UK, where he took to the stage for a "virtual duet" with former ...

McCartney was due to play Glastonbury in 2020, but that year’s festival and the 2021 edition were both scuttled by the coronavirus pandemic. Following his "friend from the west coast of America", McCartney introduced another surprise "from the east coast of America": Bruce Springsteen. Paul McCartney is making headlines for his performance at Glastonbury Festival in the UK, where he took to the stage for a "virtual duet" with former frontman John Lennon, who was fatally shot in 1980.

Paul McCartney performed an emotional virtual duet with John Lennon during last night's Glastonbury headline set (June 25).

Music Music “That’s so special for me man,” McCartney said afterwards.

We are taking a look at a list of songs by The Beatles that Paul McCartney has expressed a dislike for and it reads as a reminder of his love for the band.

I think it was a little more mine than John’s… You sometimes start a song and hope the best will arrive by the time you get to the chorus, but sometimes that’s all you get, and I suspect this was one of them. We didn’t need to compile this list to show you that Paul McCartney loved his time with The Beatles, but it does go a long way to prove it. While the reasoning behind ‘Across the Universe’ is a little murkier, there’s a good case to say that during the time of recording, McCartney and Lennon were at their lowest ebb, perhaps influencing his feeling on the song then, even if that may have changed later on. A track that toyed with the avant-garde is usually a perfect song for McCartney. The songwriter enjoyed pushing the boundaries of what pop could be, but it would seem on this number, which has a habit of dividing Beatles fans, he found the constant snipping and sampling to be too much to bear. That’s one of them.” Later, he called the track a “failed attempt at a single”. As well as being a classic number, it is also one of the only songs that McCartney didn’t perform on, given that the bassist angrily stormed out of the studio during recording: “John brought it in pretty much finished,” recalled McCartney in Barry Miles’ Many Years From Now. “I’m not sure, but I think it was one of the only Beatle records I never played on. Lennon was as happy to promote the work of The Beatles as he was to trash it. For every true Beatles fan, there must be a hatful of songs that don’t reach the pinnacle of the band’s work. It means that McCartney very rarely made it known of the songs he disliked. To find those songs, we have to peer into a few different caves before finding the nugget of truth behind his camera-ready answers. Lennon picked out more than a handful of songs that he hated while alive; McCartney’s distaste is a little harder to decipher. Of course, The Beatles are one of the most potent bands to have ever existed, and their canon is beyond impressive, but, even with their robust catalogue, there are plenty of songs that fall below the watermark the Fab Four set out.