(A week after his birthday, he’ll become the oldest person ever to headline England’s massive Glastonbury festival.) McCartney has long viewed his live show as an opportunity to condense his life’s work - music with the Beatles, music with Wings, music on his own - into a 2½-hour survey of crackling riffs, honeyed harmonies and the kind of deep-seated emotional optimism that led him to accompany “Getting Better” on Friday with a video that depicted flowers springing up through the rubble of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Still, the stage is where McCartney seems most invested in stewarding his legacy as he prepares to turn 80 next month. But as an icon, what McCartney gets is that people crave art that makes magic from their everyday experiences. And “relatable” probably isn’t the word for a guy with more money than he could ever spend. It’s not that he lacks rock-star swagger. “That baby in my jacket’s now got four babies of her own,” he told the capacity crowd, itself a clear bastion of grandparenting, at the end of the song.Īfter more than half a century as one of music’s biggest acts, Sir Paul has an earnest charm that remains his superpower. You know the photos, the most famous of which - snapped by his late wife Linda, about whom he wrote “Maybe I’m Amazed” - appeared on the back cover of McCartney’s homemade 1970 solo debut, when he’d retreated into the bosom of his family amid the Beatles’ painful breakup. Even - or especially - in front of 50,000 adoring fans, Paul McCartney was just another proud grandparent.Īs the 79-year-old pop legend sang his classic soft-rock ballad “Maybe I’m Amazed” on Friday night, giant screens at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium flashed old images of him cradling his newborn daughter Mary inside a shearling jacket.
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