Hey Jude! McCartney rolls again years as Glastonbury enters closing day

By AFP

US rapper Kendrick Lamar will carry the curtain down on Britain’s Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, after Paul McCartney ran via a set of Beatles classics, helped out by Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl.

McCartney, who turned 80 final week, on Saturday turned the oldest essential stage headliner of all time, and was joined by Springsteen for “I Wanna Be Your Man”, whereas former Nirvana man Grohl got here on for “I Saw Her Standing There.”

The 100,000 robust crowd on the dairy farm in south west England serenaded McCartney onto the stage with “Happy Birthday”, and had been handled to timeless classics together with “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Love Me Do”, “Blackbird”, “Helter Skelter”, “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude”.

The Sunday Telegraph known as it “one of the most thrilling, uplifting, banger-filled” Glastonbury performances, giving it 5 stars.

“A huge crowd of all ages spread in front of the mystically glowing Pyramid stage. Flags waved, flares blazed, voices were raised in song. The world hasn’t exactly been a vision of peace and love lately, but here was the Fab One to put things right,” it stated.

In a four-star assessment, The Observer stated that “the occasional lulls” within the first a part of the three-hour set “rather potentiates what happens afterwards, when McCartney starts to pull out all the stops.”

“There’s something incredibly charming about seeing the puppyish delight on the face of Springsteen… as he and McCartney trade lines,” it added.

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The singer-songwriter additionally carried out a duet together with his late musical associate John Lennon, whose picture was projected on a large display, on a model of “I Got A Feeling”.

The coronavirus pandemic pressured organisers to cancel the final two years’ occasions, and people going this yr battled three days of main rail strikes throughout the nation to get there.

Doors opened at Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England, on Wednesday, with US pop star Billie Eilish, 20, on Friday turning into the youngest ever essential stage headline act.

Other big-name performers on the invoice embrace soul legend Diana Ross, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde and electro-pop duo Pet Shop Boys.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky put in an look on Friday, urging revellers by huge display to band collectively to attempt to cease the battle with Russia.

Dairy farmer Michael Eavis first organised the competition in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, and followers who got here to see acts together with Marc Bolan and Al Stewart paid £1 every for entry and acquired free milk from the farm.

The competition was held intermittently within the Nineteen Seventies and it wasn’t till the Nineties that it actually started to accumulate its present standing.

Glastonbury was as a consequence of have a good time its fiftieth anniversary in 2020, however these plans had been placed on maintain by the pandemic.

Integral to the competition’s growth was the late Arabella Churchill, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, who arrange after which ran the Theatre and Circus fields.

As a end result, the competition developed a various status and the 900-acre (360-hectare) web site now encompasses varied thematic areas.