Paul McCartney has shared new reflections on the “magical” expertise of headlining Glastonbury 2022, alongside new photographs and photographs from the night time.
The Beatle headlined the Saturday night time of this 12 months’s pageant – the primary Glastonbury in three years – and performed a mammoth, career-spanning set, welcoming particular visitors Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl.
In a brand new piece for the BBC, McCartney mirrored on the expertise and shared new backstage photographs from the night time, alongside footage of his band rehearsing forward of the set.
He wrote: “Festivals are particular, however Glastonbury is especially so and it’s an enormous occasion in numerous individuals’s 12 months. As a result of it had been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 attributable to Covid, it turned extra essential to drag it off.
“I’d requested Bruce Springsteen in 2020 if he’d be completely happy to come back onboard and he mentioned sure, and he saved his promise two years later. In order that was very thrilling, having him and Dave Grohl up on the stage.”
See the brand new and unique photographs and backstage footage from the night time right here.
Of the Glastonbury ambiance, he added: “It’s a reasonably spectacular scene for individuals within the viewers, however we get the entire view up on the stage with the flags and the hills going again endlessly, so it was fairly an enormous deal that they mentioned sure to becoming a member of me in that have.
“In fact, up on stage I can’t actually see individuals’s reactions however I like to listen to them as a result of I’ve discovered myself doing that at concert events. I went to see James Taylor as soon as and began blubbing as a result of it was simply so pretty! I used to be pondering, ‘Oh, I like this man’ – I’m getting emotional even now!
“It’s a magical factor, figuring out music can try this to individuals,” Macca added. “We’re the one animal on the planet that does that.
“You then’ve acquired the spirituality of the place, figuring out concerning the ley traces and all the things else. When you could have an occasion like Glastonbury and everybody comes along with good vibes and vitality, I’m very completely happy to be a part of that.”
NME‘s Sophie Williams named the set her favorite dwell present of 2022 as a part of a round-up of NME writers’ greatest gigs of the 12 months, writing: “There was one thing that was impressively relentless concerning the set: it by no means lagged regardless of its three-hour run time, whereas nearly each tune arrived with psychedelic visuals or, nearly unbelievably, pyro.
“But it surely was the sight of Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen – two distinguished Beatles obsessives – residing out their desires as they carried out nearer ‘The Finish’ with McCartney that was essentially the most highly effective spectacle of all. As a flurry of fireworks unfold throughout the sky above, the trio repeated one phrase time and again: “Love.” For 180 minutes, it was in all places.”