GLASTONBURY, England – Joyful followers grabbed spots on the entrance of Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage early on Saturday for Paul McCartney to headline the pageant’s fiftieth anniversary, a efficiency delayed for 2 years by the worldwide pandemic.
McCartney, one of many biggest songwriters of the twentieth century in his Beatles partnership with the late John Lennon, will play the coveted slot one week after turning 80.
Jack Sunderland, 22, was in place from 0700 am. He stated McCartney had impressed him to grow to be a musician.
“He’s a hero,” stated Sunderland, who works as a funeral director. “Everybody would wish to see a dwelling legend like him.”
Henry Thurgood had wearing a replica of the aquamarine go well with McCartney sported on the sleeve of 1967’s “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band” for the event.
“I’ve not seen him reside earlier than, so this can be a massive second for me,” the 27-year-old stated.
McCartney, who first carried out at Glastonbury in 2004, had been due to participate within the fiftieth anniversary version of the pageant in 2020 earlier than it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-organiser Emily Eavis stated in March that his efficiency could be “an enormous second”. “It means the world getting Paul McCartney to Glastonbury,” she stated.
McCartney, who would be the pageant’s oldest ever headliner, will take to the stage at some point after its youngest.
Twenty-year-old American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish delivered a crowd-pleasing set, together with hits “Bury a Pal” and “Dangerous Man”.
She alluded to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturning the constitutional proper to abortion earlier on Friday, saying it was a “actually darkish day for girls”.
Different performers at Worthy Farm in southwest England on Saturday embody Sam Fender, Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds and Megan Thee Stallion.
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