For the E Avenue Band’s second-ever present within the Beatles’ birthplace, McCartney joins the band for “Cannot Purchase Me Love” and “Kansas Metropolis”
Bruce Springsteen is performing his first-ever exhibits in Liverpool, England — the birthplace of the Beatles — this week, so naturally Paul McCartney got here out to hitch the E Avenue Band for a few songs Saturday.
Wednesday marked Springsteen’s first live performance in Liverpool, and it was a Beatle-less affair. Saturday introduced the Boss again to the town’s Anfield stadium, and it was a fairly routine E Avenue present once more till the encore, when Springsteen and firm welcomed out McCartney:
“Thanks Liverpool. You’re fortunate tonight, we’ve got a younger man, an area younger man from Liverpool, he’s gonna play with us tonight, I believe he has loads of expertise, and I consider he’s gonna be going locations,” Springsteen quipped in his introduction. “So let’s convey out Paul McCartney.”
McCartney first led the band on a rendition of the Fab 4 basic “Can’t Purchase Me Love” — Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s first time performing that music reside — adopted by a rendition of Little Willie Littlefield’s “Kansas Metropolis” that was popularized by Little Richard after which the Beatles on Beatles for Sale.
The 2 rock legends have shared the stage collectively on a handful of events over the previous dozen-plus years: At London’s Hyde Park in July 2012, and once more at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard in September 2017 (each occasions they performed “I Noticed Her Standing There”).
Additionally they carried out collectively throughout McCartney’s East Rutherford, New Jersey gig in June 2022 (taking part in the Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man” and Springsteen’s personal “Glory Days”) and, most not too long ago, every week later throughout McCartney’s headlining set at Glastonbury.
Mirroring the Beatles’ personal sojourn from Liverpool to Germany, Springsteen and the E Avenue Band’s European tour subsequent heads to Berlin on June 11. McCartney, who performed a residency at New York’s tiny Bowery Ballroom again in February, has no tour dates presently on his 2025 calendar.