Paul McCartney

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.

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.

Kiwi filmmaker behind performance that saw Lennon duet with McCartney at Glastonbury.

Jackson went on to secure exclusive access to the band's private film archives and turned 60 hours of footage into a three-part documentary. And after wowing the crowd, McCartney said: "That's so special for me, man. The process allowed editors to use footage that had previously been unusable.

The good news is that his landmark set, along with special guests Dave Grohl, Bruce Springsteen and even a virtual duet with John Lennon, is now available to ...

You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. It creates a private connection between your device and the internet. In the UK, BBC iPlayer streamed Glastonbury 2022 – including Paul McCartney's headline set (opens in new tab) on 25th June– free of charge. Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl stepped out to join him, in his first appearance since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins, to play I Saw Her Standing There with the headliner. Fortunately, it was just a temporary problem and Macca's material is now available to watch for the next 29 days, at least. Sir Paul McCartney pulled in one of the biggest crowds that the Pyramid Stage has ever seen at Glastonbury 2022 when he headlined Saturday at the festival, and we were beginning to get worried that it was never going to land on BBC iPlayer to watch all over again.

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.