Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hope you loved the present.
The surviving Beatles reunited on stage at McCartney’s Thursday evening Return tour finale in London to carry out two of the band’s most iconic songs.
Like McCartney, 82 years outdated, welcomed his surprise guest – “the mighty, the one and solely, Ringo Starr” – hundreds of followers crammed the O2 area with extended applause. Starr, 84, flashed his signature peace signal, then McCartney requested, “Should we rock?”
“I simply rock,” Starr joked earlier than taking his place on drums.
The former bandmates joined McCartney’s band for a model of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”, then concluded their mini-set with “Helter Skelter”. (Starr joined McCartney for a similar two songs when he appeared on the singer’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” live performance offered out present at Dodger Stadium in 2019.)
“I had an excellent evening and I really like you all,” Starr he told the cheering crowd because it was launched on Thursday. “Thanks to this man.”
But that wasn’t the one shock of the night. At the start of the present, McCartney had launched the viewers to a different outdated buddy: his authentic bass, stolen half a century in the past and he went again to the rightful proprietor in February.
“It seems like a bass,” McCartney he noted as he performed the recovered instrument for the primary time in 50 years. “And what’s extra, we’ve got a particular visitor for you: Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood!”
The two embraced earlier than launching right into a efficiency of the Beatles’ 1969 single “Get Back,” which Starr beforehand carried out with Wood and McCartney on the identical London venue in 2018.
“There’s a connection between the bassist and the drummer, you recognize,” Starr mentioned The occasions in September as he remembered that second. “You’re each the tip all be all.”
“Paul is the person – and he is nonetheless probably the most magical bass participant I do know,” he mentioned.
Times workers writers Alexandra Del Rosario and Mikael Wood contributed to this report.
