Paul McCartney has shared new reflections on the “magical” expertise of headlining Glastonbury 2022, alongside new images and pictures from the evening.
The Beatle headlined the Saturday evening of this 12 months’s pageant – the primary Glastonbury in three years – and performed a mammoth, career-spanning set, welcoming particular company Bruce Springsteen and Dave Grohl.
In a brand new piece for the BBC, McCartney mirrored on the expertise and shared new backstage images from the evening, alongside footage of his band rehearsing forward of the set.
He wrote: “Festivals are particular, however Glastonbury is especially so and it’s a giant occasion in a number of folks’s 12 months. Because it had been cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid, it grew to become extra vital to tug 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.”
See the brand new and unique images and backstage footage from the evening right here.
Of the Glastonbury environment, he added: “It’s a reasonably spectacular scene for folks within the viewers, however we get the entire view up on the stage with the flags and the hills going again perpetually, so it was fairly a giant deal that they stated sure to becoming a member of me in that have.
“Of course, up on stage I can’t actually see folks’s reactions however I really 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 love this guy’ – I’m getting emotional even now!
“It’s a magical thing, knowing music can do that to people,” Macca added. “We’re the one animal on the planet that does that.
“Then you’ve got the spirituality of the place, knowing about the ley lines and everything else. When you have an event like Glastonbury and everyone comes together with good vibes and energy, I’m very happy to be part of that.”
NME‘s Sophie Williams named the set her favourite live show of 2022 as part of a round-up of NME writers’ greatest gigs of the 12 months, writing: “There was one thing that was impressively relentless in regards to 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 was the sight of Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen – two prominent Beatles obsessives – living out their dreams as they performed closer ‘The End’ with McCartney that was the most powerful spectacle of all. As a flurry of fireworks spread across the sky above, the trio repeated one word over and over: “Love.” For 180 minutes, it was all over the place.”