Paul McCartney just lately shared new reflections on his time headlining Glastonbury 2022, alongside new pictures and photographs from the evening.
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The legendary musician performed a monumental, career-spanning set, together with particular company Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl to sit down in along with his band.
“Festivals are special, but Glastonbury is particularly so and it’s a big event in lots of people’s year. Because it had been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid, it became more important to pull it off. I’d asked Bruce Springsteen in 2020 if he’d be happy to come onboard and he said yes, and he kept his promise two years later. So that was very exciting, having him and Dave Grohl up on the stage.”
Earlier this month, McCartney launched The 7” Singles Box, that includes no fewer than 80 x 7” of his singles, to mark his eightieth birthday in June. It incorporates a complete of 163 tracks and greater than ten hours of music.
The bodily set, restricted to three,000 copies, is superbly offered in a wood artwork crate, designed and inbuilt Derbyshire, England. It will characteristic a 148-page ebook with a private foreword by McCartney, an essay by music journalist Rob Sheffield, and intensive chart info, liner notes, and single paintings. Each field features a randomly chosen unique check urgent of one of many singles. The assortment can also be accessible digitally.
The assortment options such gems from Paul’s peerless songbook as “Another Day,” “My Love,” “Jet,” “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Silly Love Songs,” “Coming Up,” “Ebony and Ivory,” “Say Say Say,” “No More Lonely Nights,” “Wonderful Christmastime,” and lots of extra.
The lavish field is a celebration not solely of McCartney’s staggering contribution to music historical past however of the 7” single itself, a format that had a profound and lasting affect on him as each as a songwriter and a music fan. Paul writes in his foreword about how he nonetheless enjoys the fun of discovering new and previous gems in file retailers and the respect that he and The Beatles had for single B-sides, which frequently featured tracks not featured on their LPs.
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