During Glastonbury’s weekend full of secret sets and surprise guests, I heard various rumors about who would bring Paul McCartney when he became the festival’s oldest headliner on Saturday night. ..
Maybe Dave Grohl, who previously played for The Beatles and headlined the Foo Fighters in 2017, but he was “stuck in Los Angeles,” someone who knew the rock star’s flight schedule told me. talked. Someone else claimed to have seen Glastonbury’s stubborn Chris Martin in the field. I refused to accept another person’s suggestion that the 2009 headliner Bruce Springsteen may be nearby.
Eventually, the excitement doubled when McCartney said goodbye to Groll and brought Springsteen as the epic show rang near the three-hour mark.
The former arrived after some flights were canceled to play the guitar and sing in the early Beatles numbers I Saw Her Standing There and Wings’ favorite Bandon the Run. The boss is another extreme oldie, I want to be your man, and got one of himself, Glory Days. It was properly titled for the extraordinary end of the evening.
The third virtual guest wasn’t a little surprised as McCartney was doing it on his US tour, but it’s still a remarkable moment. While creating the recent Beatles documentary Get Back, director Peter Jackson suggested separating John Lennon’s vocals with I’ve Gota Feeling, as played at the 1969 rooftop concert. This allowed the Beatles duet for more than 40 years after Lennon’s death.
McCartney had a long preparation to reach the invincible last hour, which was an emotional climax. Throughout the first half of his long set, he suppressed his apparent ability to play hits after hits, interspersed with less familiar compositions. In addition to two lesser-known Wings songs, Junior’s Farm and Letting Go, the 2018 solo album Egypt Station’s Come On to Me was part of the opening assortment.
He and his epic band pointed out that as the phone in the crowd changes from a galaxy of stars to a “black hole,” he and his epic band can tell what the audience thinks when he plays a new song. .. “But we don’t care. I’m going to do it anyway,” he said. Dance Tonight, a simple emotion from 2007, and My Valentine, a modest song written for his wife Nancy in 2012, were also aired early on.
It may have confused a huge crowd as I was essentially watching a show from Wiltshire. Masses of that size did not exist in the deep cut, but on earth for the inevitable Live and Let Die fireworks dissonance and, of course, for the infinite na-na-na-na-. It was clear that it was hanging because it was in the best location Hey Jude’s ing.
As McCartney called them, “Glaston Burger” finally fulfilled their wishes through some more emotional detours. Written here today for Lennon after his death. And most of Abbey Road’s medleys have said he’s never played live.
I would have been able to finish waving the Ukrainian flag and have another three hours without running out of the deepest classic songs of pop. As it was, this unpredictable night will be unforgettable for a long time.