It sounds like a music fan's dream - Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl on stage.
Grohl joined former Beatles member McCartney on stage at Glastonbury in his first public appearance since the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
As soon as he stepped onto the Pyramid stage, the audience greeted him with huge applause. In a duet, they played a rougher, garage rock version of a Beatles song I Saw Her Standing There.
“This guy flew in specifically for this. We love you," McCartney said.
"I swear, I wouldn't miss being here with you for anything in the world," Grohl replied.
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And there was no surprise left, McCartney then brought out Bruce Springsteen to play the songs Glory Days i I wanna be your man.
Springsteen, the New Jersey rocker, congratulated McCartney on his 80th birthday, which was last week, wishing him "80 more glorious years."
Previously, fans spontaneously sang a birthday song to the former member of the Beatles.
He interrupted them at the beginning with the question: "To me?".
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The headline act was one of the most anticipated at Glastonbury in years, with some die-hard fans grabbing a front row seat more than 12 hours before the star was due to take the stage.
At the beginning of the concert, around ten in the evening, there were so many people in the audience that it was impossible to see the crowd.
It could be the most attended concert since the record-breaking performance of singer Dolly Parton at this festival in 2014.
In turn, the audience was rewarded with a marathon performance lasting two hours and 50 minutes during which he played hits from his entire six-decade career.
He started with a Beatles classic Can't Buy Me Love (recorded 58 years ago) and followed up with the Wings hit Junior's Farm - a jocular nod to the Eavis family, who host Glastonbury every year at their farm in Somerset.
“Man, it's so good to be here. We should have been doing this three years ago," McCartney said, referring to a show he canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.
“But here we are. We've got some old songs for you, we've got some new songs and we've got some in between... and I have a feeling we're going to have a great time."
The list includes some of the biggest rock hits like Love Me Do i Lady madonna; classics of his group Wings like Band on the run; and newer songs from solo albums such as Come On To Me.
McCartney is a ballad my valentine, in Sinatra's style, dedicated to his wife Nancy Shevell, and the track Something he played the ukulele, an instrument he got from songwriter George Harrison.
The visitors were blown away by a duet with John Lennon, whose vocals are for the song I've Got A Feeling taken from a rooftop recording of a Beatles concert in 1969.
"This means a lot to me," McCartney said.
"I know it's virtual, but here I am again singing with John, we're together again."
He played a total of 36 songs, their deep connection resulting in some stunning moments when the audience joined him in the choruses, especially "na, na, na, na naaa... Hey Jude" which echoed through the field for four minutes and 40 seconds.
Other songs were for his soul, like I like In Spite Of All The Danger The Quarrymen, the band he played in before the Beatles with Lennon and Harrison, along with John Lowe and Colin Hunton.
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The star said that some lesser-known songs might turn fans away.
"We know what songs you like, because when we play Beatles songs the room lights up like a galaxy of phones." And when we play something newer, it looks like a black hole, but it doesn't matter, we'll play them anyway," he said.
For the last half hour there was enough light from the phone screen to see from space.
Especially when they were playing Get Back, I Saw Her Standing There, Band On The Run, Hey Jude, Helter Skelter i Live and let die, with which there were also many fireworks).
Grohl and Springsteen joined him for the last song and played guitars together The End, the penultimate song on the Beatles album Abbey Road, before McCartney left to thunderous applause and standing ovations from the crowd.
For anyone else, it would be a career-defining performance, but when you're responsible for shaping the entire sound, style, and direction of rock music, the bar is raised a little higher.
It's still in his top 10, though.
On Saturday, Noel Gallagher, Gets, Jangblad and the American rapper Megan d Stellion also performed at the Glastonbury festival.
The festival ends on Sunday night with performances by Pet Shop Boys, Lordi, Elbow and rapper Kendrick Lamar.
Songs performed by Paul McCartney at Glastonbury
Can't Buy Me Love
Junior's Farm
Letting go
Got To Get You Into My Life
Come On To Me
Let Me Roll It
getting better
Let 'Em In
my valentine
1985
Maybe I'm Amazed
I've Just Seen A Face
In Spite Of All The Danger
Love Me Do
Dance Tonight
Blackbird
here today
New
Lady madonna
Phew You
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
Something
Ob La Di, Ob La Da
She Came In Through T he Bathroom Window
Get Back
I Saw Her Standing There
Band on the run
Glory Days
I wanna be your man
Let It Be
Live and let die
Hey Jude
I've Got A Feeling
Helter Skelter
golden slumbers
The End
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