Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen.Photo: Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
During McCartney’s two-and-a-half-hour set at the festival in England, the formerBeatlebrought out bothBruce SpringsteenandDave Grohlfor performances, marking the latter’s first concert since the death of his longtime friend andFoo FightersbandmateTaylor Hawkinsin March.
“We love you,” McCartney, 80, told Grohl, 53, according to theBBC, revealing to the audience watching him headline the Pyramid Stage that Grohl “flew in specially to do this.”
“I swear, I would never miss being right here with you, right now,” Grohl responded, per the BBC.
According to theAssociated Press, Grohl joined McCartney for renditions of “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Band on the Run,” while Springsteen, 72, rocked on “I Wanna Be Your Man” and his own “Glory Days.”
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Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl.Samir Hussein/WireImage
Grohl describes meeting McCartney for the first time in his 2021 memoirThe Storyteller, along with a subsequent anecdote about how the legendary English musician once came to his house for dinner and ended up giving his middle daughter Harper, now 13, her first piano lesson when she was 5 years old.
“We have wine and pizza and we’re hanging out, and it was time for Paul to go,” Grohl summarized onThe Graham Norton Showback in October 2021. “Paul and [his wife] Nancy were leaving and there was a piano in the corner of the room, and he just can’t help himself.”
“So he sits down at the piano and starts playing ‘Lady Madonna’ … in my f–ing house!” the musician recalled. “My mind is blown, I can’t believe this is happening. This is like the most full-circle, crazy moment of my entire life.”
Speaking of Harper joining theformer Wings member, Grohl added, “She’d never taken a lesson to play any instrument at that point, and she sat down and she watched his hands. They sat together, and he was showing her what to play, and they wrote a song together.”
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Foo Fighters drummerHawkins died suddenly on March 25in Bogotá, Colombia, just before the band was scheduled to take the stage at a music festival. He was 50 years old.
source: people.com
