Paul McCartney at Glastonbury
Dave Grohl in his first performance since the death of Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins, has joined legend Paul McCartney on stage at Glastonbury, singing the gritty garage rock version of I Saw Her Standing There. McCartney then brought out New Jersey rocker Bruce Springsteen to play Glory Days and I Wanna Be Your Man, and acknowledged McCartney’s 80th birthday. Earlier fans had broken into a spontaneous rendition of Happy Birthday for the former Beatle. The Beatles’ classic Can’t Buy Me Love ( itself 58 years old) continued with the Wings’ hit Junior’s Farm, Get Back, I Saw Her Standing There, Band On The Run, Hey Jude, Helter Skelter, and Jame Bond hit Live And Let Die, amid blasting of fireworks were sang with a nod to the Eavis family, who host Glastonbury on their Somerset farm each year.
Saturday’s Glastonbury line-up included performances from Noel Gallagher, Ghetts, Yungblud Olivia Rodrigo, and US rapper Megan thee Stallion. Glastonbury is attended by over 210, 000 people, amid extensive security, and transport despite the national rail strike, water, and electricity-supply infrastructure. The all-time record of 300, 000 people who attended Glastonbury in 1994 is still standing, headlined by Levellers who performed on the Pyramid Stage. Most staff and volunteers helped the festival to raise millions of pounds for charity organizations. Billie Eilish and Diana Ross also are also in the headlines.
Glastonbury Festival inspired by the ethos of the hippie, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the free-festival moment is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. The festival was held intermittently from 1970 until 1981m and has been held most years since then, except for Fallow years taken mostly at five-year intervals. The first festival at Worthy Farm was the Pillon Pop, Blues & Folk Festival hosted by Michael Eavis on Saturday 19 September 1970, and was attended by 1, 500 people.