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26 June 2022, 11:47 | Updated: 1 July 2022, 16:26
The Beatle legend was joined by Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen during his headline set on the Pyramid Stage - and here's what he played.
Sir Paul McCartney made history this weekend (Saturday 25th June) when he became the oldest performer to headline Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. The crowd sang happy birthday to the star, who turned 80 years old last week.
The former Beatle was scheduled to headline the festival in 2020, but the event was cancelled that year and again in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
McCartney was joined by special guests Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl for a set that featured a number of solo classics, plus tracks made famous by his project Wings. The show was of course, loaded with legendary song from his career with The Beatles.
McCartney told the crowd that Dave Grohl had flown in from the West Coast of America, but the Foo Fighters man admitted that he'd been trying to get to the UK from LA since Wednesday, but flight cancellations and delays had caused problems.
In his first public performance since the death of Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins, Grohl told the crowd: "I wouldn’t miss being here right here with you." McCartney added: "He said he’d come over but I didn’t believe him."
Grohl performed with McCartney on the early Beatles classic I Saw Her Standing There and the Wings anthem Band On The Run.
McCartney was joined by Bruce Springsteen for a rousing take on The Boss's hit Glory Days and the old Fab Four tune I Wanna Be Your Man.
Both Grohl and Springsteen joined McCartney for the finale as they duelled solos on the Beatles track The End, from 1969's Abbey Road album.
The set saw McCartney go back as far as the first ever Beatles single, 1962's Love Me Do, right through to Come On To Me and Fuh You from 2018's Egypt Station. Sir Paul also paid tribute to his comrade John Lennon with the moving song Here Today, written shortly after Lennon's death in 1980, and tipped his hat to fellow Beatle George Harrison with a rendition of the classic Something.
Paul headlining Glastonbury at the Pyramid Stage on Saturday 25th June #PaulMcCartneyAtGlasto pic.twitter.com/VQumun5li0
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) June 26, 2022
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