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“Fab One”

June 26, 2022 at 11:35 am Leave a comment

At the 2022 Glastonbury Festival Paul McCartney, who just has turned 80 last week, played an amazing gig in front of the biggest crowd of this year’s festival on Saturday evening.

Macca with his Hofner bass and Beatles collar jacket performing at Glastonbury, Somerset, 25 June 2022

When it comes to knowing exactly what an audience wants and delivering it with perfection, Macca surely knows how to do that. And even among rock’s veterans, nobody has a more universally loved cross-generational back catalogue than the “Fab One”, with the Beatles, Wings and solo. Famously a people pleaser, he was certainly committed to pleasing the festival faithful.

McCartney and his tightly drilled combo just kept knocking them out, one absolutely storming classic after another, sending waves of excitement up the packed hillside and turning the bigger crowd of the 2022 Glastonbury festival into the world’s biggest choir.

“I mean,” Neil McCormick writes in “The Telegraph, “you haven’t heard 200,000 voices doing the Nanana’s on Hey Jude“.

“The world hasn’t exactly been a vision of love and peace lately, but here was the Fab One to put things right.” For a couple of hours in a Somerset field, rising on harmonies and wreathed in smiles, you could almost believe that “it’s getting better all the time”.

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