Springsteen duets with McCartney in Liverpool
Band founder Paul McCartney joined rock royalty Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for two songs during Springsteen’s second concert in the city, at Anfield Stadium.
Rock history doesn’t come to life more vividly than it did on Saturday in Liverpool, England – the birthplace of The Beatles.
Band founder Paul McCartney joined rock royalty Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for two songs during Springsteen’s second concert in the city, at Anfield Stadium.
They joined forces for the Beatles’ classic “Can’t Buy Me Love” and the r&b standard “Kansas City,” which the Beatles recorded in 1965.
The 82-year-old McCartney sang lead vocals on both and played his signature Hofner bass guitar.
“We are lucky tonight we have a young man, a local young man from Liverpool who is going to guest for us tonight,” the 75-year-old Springsteen told the sold-out crowd before his series of encore songs at the end of the marathon show. “I think he’s got a lot of talent, and I believe he’s going to be going places. So let’s bring out Sir Paul McCartney.”
Springsteen and McCartney spoke to Liverpool students
The day before, Springsteen joined McCartney at a talk with students at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, co-founded by McCartney.“When Bruce announced the Liverpool shows, I wondered if Paul McCartney could turn up, though he lives in London,” said Gavin Gross, who traveled from London to the show. “But when Bruce and Paul appeared together at a public event in Liverpool the day before the concert, I felt in my bones it was going to happen, and it did!”
On Thursday, Springsteen’s drummer, Max Weinberg, performed with his spin-off band, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox, at the Cavern Club of Liverpool, where a pre-Beatlemania Beatles played frequently in the early 1960s.
