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Yes ‘bless him’ he is eighty, but I found it hard going so turned it over.
Seems lefties hear any kind of music and they are away.He’s the giant of 20th century music.
That’s it. And fwiw he was far more musically ambitious than Lennon
Pet shop boys tonight. That will go down a storm
‘Seems lefties hear any kind of music and they are away.’
I cannot imagine being unable to separate anything from politics, bizarre. There’s about seven or eight threads just on the first page that discuss it, why not use one of those?
Hope they show the full PSB performance mance like they did Macca. It should be brilliant. They’ve got a back catalogue most could only dream of.
By my count McCartney did 2 hours 40 minutes. Ridiculous for a man who first performed on stage over 60 years ago. What teenage/early 20s musician today will be headlining Glastonbury 2082? I think we all know the answer to that.
Picking up on Richard’s point, the funny thing is I’m vaguely centre left, but actually not really interested in music and you can have the biggest bet of your life I will never ever go to Glastonbury or watch it on TV.
In my youth, I once quite liked theatrical stage shows, especially the initial stage entrance, but the actual music did little for me and when performers opened their mouths between tracks I invariably wished they hadn’t because self indulgent nonsense was all that ever seemed to come out of them.
And despite my vaguely sympathetic personal politics, I too consider Glastonbury a bit of a lefty sanctuary, the sort of place you’d be infinitely more likely to see Jeremy Corbyn than Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Guess I’m more Stereotypes than Stereophonics.
Btw I hope you’re all impressed by me having even heard of the latter – though I couldn’t name one of their tracks to save my life.
I like to style myself as the TRF Godfather, but the awful truth is that every day I sound more like its grandfather.
Maybe great grandfather.
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But Glastonbury is not just a music festival. It has made itself political.
I note with amusement that it has a stage devoted to politics called “Left Field”. If anyone uses the L word here, they get jumped on. But it is OK when Glastonbury uses it to describe itself.
Of course, there is no equivalent Right Field stage.
Still, let us hope Grohl and Springsteen planted a tree or two to offset the carbon from their flights to perform their vital cameos.
Of course there is politics at Glastonbury as well as rampant hypocrisy (I doubt there’s a festival on the planet with a higher carbon footprint).
My point is can’t we put all that aside for five minutes? I’d bet most people there do. No idea why you’d go all the way there to be lectured to by Greta or Corbyn when there’s literally hundreds of bands on all day long.
Must admit I haven’t watched but will watch tonight and there is a thought that it would have been quite something to be there
I mean.
Macca.
Bloody hell
A great macca story. C. David Hepworth
Tbe stones were having a party to showcase and their latest release (beggars banquet I think. Which is superb) -and macca turned up with an acetate of the Beatles latest single.
He asked if anyone would like to hear
7 mins later the party was silent and stunned. Many were emotional. Blown away by a piece which still does how ever many times it’s heard
It was hey jude
What a ******* track that is
Jagger was not happy at all but ultimately the two bands were mates
Yes Clive, I’m rarely envious of people who ‘were there’ but last night is one of those occasions. That and Pet Shop Boys isn’t far off being worth the admission price alone.
Yep. Me too
What’s insane is that hey Jude probably wouldn’t be in my top ten Beatles tracks and yet it’s the single that stopped the world. That’s no exaggeration
It is unique and maybe the most recognised track by anyone ever?
Tbe way it’s constructed was entirely radical too
McCarthy was hard nosed and competitive too and that party event was not off the cuff. I like to think that jagger and Richards had a smile to themselves about that devastating upstaging
Macarthy and the ism were 40’s 50’s Macartney was 60’s and the flower people grew at the end of that same decade. Nobody told me he was headlining – I probably would have gone but probably not. I have an appointment with Jennie Bond on Tuesday @ 230 for drinks and pastries but like Prince Philip I’m off on a boat to the Merry Isle
I suppose it’s 50 or 60 quid to get in Glasto now – that wouldn’t put me orf either it’s just the bloody clock that’s running against me. I first heard Hey Jude drinking alone in a basement Soho pub. The record made such a deep impression on me and it was a moment.I’ve never been a great Beatles or McCartney fan but I was bowled over by last nights performance. Paul was always the Beatle who wanted to be out there on the road writing songs, singing and entertaining people. That’s why he formed Wings and took off round university campuses performing. So, to see him at the age of 80 putting on a show like that made me feel quite emotional. I envy the people that were in the crowd. Like a great sporting moment it was a proper ‘I was there’ moment. Michael Eavis commented on the carbon footprint dilemma but pointed out how many people worldwide benefits by the money the festival raises for it’s chosen charities. As for it being political, well it always has been. I’m pretty sure that Bruce Kent ( RIP) was involved right from the beginning. In my youth our political meetings were held in the local Friends Meeting House because the Quakers were probably the original hippies,a religion based on love and peace. I don’t think I’ve ever been to Glastonbury but like to think that I went to the very first one. When I was 17 and living in Cornwall I hitched to a festival,met up with a few friends but then decided to leave. All I can remember is walking the opposite way to crowds of people who asked me if it had been cancelled but I replied that I’d just decided to go home.
I wasn’t from a musical household.
In fact, my Dad was tone deaf.
But he did like The Beatles during their initial mop top, boy meets girl, incarnation.
He thought they – well, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, anyway – were intelligent, especially Lennon with his “just rattle your jewellery” crack at the Royal Variety Show.
But he also thought Lennon was the one the most up his own backside and the one who started believing the publicity too much and saying stuff like “we’re bigger than Jesus Christ.”
He lost interest in them after Penny Lane, but he did always think McCartney was the one who cultivated the cleverest mainstream image.
McCartney has certainly fared best of the four – he’s still alive for a start – and to be performing at Glastonbury at 80 is amazing and for his work still to be considered relevant even more so.
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OK, that makes it all right then.
It is OK for rich rock stars to fly around the world because they fancy singing a song. But everyone else should fly less or (better still) stay at home to save the planet.
I appreciate the point Richard made but if Glastonbury is going to ask people like Jeremy Corbyn and Greta Thunberg onto the main stage, it can hardly complain when people pick up on its political aspect.
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