Paul McCartney ‘blames Bruce Springsteen’ for fan expectations at live shows

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. I blame Bruce Springsteen – I’ve told him so, I said, ‘It’s your fault,’” he said. It didn’t seem strange.” Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen Last year, more than 100,000 people gathered to watch McCartney’s headline set at Glastonbury, ranking him among the biggest audiences a Pyramid stage act has ever drawn. “John, sat at his grand piano in what you might call a pared-back look of gold lamé suit and orange specs, gives it gusto for ‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘The Bitch Is Back’ and ‘Bennie and the Jets’ – so much so that you wonder how his voice will last two hours.” Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up She added: “Sunday’s performance is partly a trip down memory lane. But it also feels like a subtle handing of the pop baton to the next generation, who John each introduces like he’s on his radio show, outlining how he discovered them with genuine enthusiasm.” Meanwhile, McCartney recently hosted the National Portrait Gallery’s first major exhibition since it re-opened, with a collection of 250 previously unseen photographs from his personal archive chronicling the height of Beatlemania.