Sunday 26 June 2022 10:36 PM HUNTER DAVIES: Will Paul McCartney still be on stage at 90? I bet he will try trends now

Sunday 26 June 2022 10:36 PM HUNTER DAVIES: Will Paul McCartney still be on stage at 90? I bet he will try trends now
Sunday 26 June 2022 10:36 PM HUNTER DAVIES: Will Paul McCartney still be on stage at 90? I bet he will try trends now

Sunday 26 June 2022 10:36 PM HUNTER DAVIES: Will Paul McCartney still be on stage at 90? I bet he will try trends now

When he started his Glastonbury set, tightly buttoned up in a stiff high-collared, old-fashioned jacket, hardly moving his body at all, showing little energy and enthusiasm, I thought oh no, he's lost it, poor sod.

It was a tease of course. He was pacing himself, knowing what was to come, the fireworks and special guests, saving his voice and body so it would last the whole two hours.

In your eighties, as I know only too well, you mustn't rush things. You might dry up, get confused or fall over.

Paul never thought he would last this long. In the Sixties I remember him and John being unable to imagine performing in their thirties. The notion was grotesque.

So what would they be doing? John presumed he would be a bum, like his Dad. Paul envisaged becoming a teacher. When Paul wrote When I'm Sixty Four, the idea of anyone being 64 was mythical, the oldest he could think of anyone ever being. At the time he was only 16.

Paul never thought he would last this long. In the Sixties I remember him and John being unable to imagine performing in their thirties. The notion was grotesque

Paul never thought he would last this long. In the Sixties I remember him and John being unable to imagine performing in their thirties. The notion was grotesque

Now look at him. Especially when he eventually took his jacket off. 'The only wardrobe change this evening.'

A good joke. Well, as jokes go, at live open air concerts. The songs, especially his own classics, were fab. OK, so he cannot quite reach all the high notes and gets a bit croaky on the low notes.

He was wise not to attempt Yesterday. That has to be a solo, with no effects, and would have given away his age.

Mr Kite was probably a mistake. His heart did not seem in it. It is a John song, which needed John's voice.

But when he did a George song,

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