PAUL McCARTNEY rocked the Desert Trip Festival this weekend at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California ~ October 8th, 2016. Paul McCartney led the Coachella Valley in a joyous journey down memory lane on the second day of Desert Trip Festival.
Neil Young joined Paul McCartney for “A Day in the Life”,”Give Peace a Chance”, & “Why Don’t We Do it in the Road”.
McCartney – boyish as ever, delighted to be on the Coachella stage again. he headlined the original music festival in 2009, and has attended every year since. This new addition to the Coachella Valley has been dubbed “Oldchella” – given that the average age of the musicians is 72. But McCartney was undaunted.
Filmed across the two Desert Trip weekends, the video gives you a great insight into just how huge and special those shows were. We had a great view from the front of the stage, but check out the drone footage showing off the scale of the festival. We still pinch ourselves that we were actually there!
“We’re going to have a party, Liverpool style,” he told the 75,000-strong crowd, who were dancing and singing Beatles songs even before he came onto stage. Blending Beatles songs with new material – “some old songs, new ones, and in between ones,” he said – McCartney delivered a deeply personal reflection on five decades in the music industry.
He told anecdotes about Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and joked about going to Russia and performing Back in the USSR – mimicking the heavily-accented English of the Russian defence minister, who told him after the show that Love Me Do was the first record he bought. He spoke movingly of Linda McCartney and John Lennon, with Lennon’s face featured heavily in the images broadcast on the screen behind him.
After whipping the crowd into a frenzy with Let It Be, a firework-filled spectacular of Live and Let Die, and then the epic sing-a-long to Hey Jude, McCartney left the stage – then came back for more.
“Still feel like rocking?” the 72-year-old asked. It was 12:10am; he had come on stage two and a half hours earlier.
But the Coachella crowd yelled for more; McCartney delivered a Stones tribute, performing I Wanna Be Your Man – a song Lennon and McCartney wrote for the band. And on he played, seeming never to want to leave the stage.
See the setlist for the other songs Macca performed in this epic show.
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