Come collectively, proper now.
On Thursday, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr thrilled followers with a shock reunion onstage at a London live performance.
“Should we rock? Get on your kit,” McCartney mentioned to his former bandmate as Starr got here on, and the gang went wild.
The 2 final surviving Beatles carried out in entrance of 20,000 followers at London’s O2 area as a part of the ultimate night time of McCartney’s “Got Back” tour.
McCartney, 82, and Starr, 84, performed the Beatles hits “Helter Skelter” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
When Starr left the stage, he mentioned, “It’s fantastic, playing with me old mate, but there comes a time when we’ve got to go home. All that remains to be said … I’ve had a great night and I love you all.”
McCartney’s “Got Back” tour started in April 2022, with over 59 reveals, and in addition included performances in Paris, Madrid and Brazil.
Throughout his set, he performed hits from his 60-year profession, together with the Beatles music “Blackbird,” his hit “My Valentine” and the music “In Spite of All the Danger” from his first band, the Quarrymen. McCartney additionally performed a few of the Jimi Hendrix Expertise’s “Foxy Lady.”
After the latter music, McCartney mentioned about Hendrix, “I was lucky enough to know him a bit in the ’60s and he was a great guy, a great guitar player but a very humble person.”
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wooden additionally got here out to play a rendition of “Get Back.”
McCartney not solely reunited with former bandmates, however he additionally reunited together with his unique Hofner 500/1 bass guitar for the primary time in additional than 50 years.
McCartney used the instrument to report hits like “Twist and Shout,” “All My Loving,” “Love Me Do” and different singles from The Beatle’s first two albums, however it obtained stolen in 1972. He recovered it earlier this 12 months.
The previous Beatle purchased the guitar for $37 earlier than turning into well-known. Publish-fame, it was valued at $12.5 million.
At the start of the live performance, McCartney advised the gang, “Oh London, this is the last night of our current tour, we’ve been around South America and all over the place. So it’s great to be back and we’re going to have some fun tonight.”
The rock legend additionally included tributes to the 2 late Beatles, John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980 at age 40, and George Harrison, who died of most cancers in 2001 at age 58.
His live performance included footage of Lennon performing “I’ve Got a Feeling” in the course of the Beatles’ well-known rooftop live performance at Apple Corps headquarters in 1969, whereas McCartney performed the music reside onstage.
Footage of Harrison performing and the Beatles rocking out collectively additionally performed on-screen.
Ever since The Beatles broke up in 1970, the surviving band members have reunited a number of occasions. McCartney and Starr performed collectively on-stage for the previous’s 2018-19 “Freshen Up” tour. In addition they reunited at Starr’s 2015 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction.
