Mccartney marks birthday onstage
Paul Mccartney celebrated his birthday early on Thursday, singing “Glory Days” onstage with Bruce Springsteen and being serenaded by some 60,000 well-wishers. The “cute Beatle” turned 80 on Saturday.
Like several other members of the “hope
I die before I get old” generation, including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and former Beatles mate Ringo Starr, Mccartney keeps working and sharing his music from the stage. Another 1960s icon, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, is set to play Kansas City on his 80th birthday Monday.
“(Mccartney) has a youthful exuberance that is ageless,” said Bob Spitz, a Beatles biographer. “There’s still some of that 21-year-old boy that shines through in all of his performances.”
Thursday’s show at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey was the final night of a brief U.S. tour. “Yeah, yeah, right, I’ve got a birthday coming up,” Mccartney said, scanning signs in the audience. The crowd offered a spontaneous “Happy Birthday” serenade even before Jersey guy Jon Bon Jovi brought out a fistful of balloons during the encore to lead them in another verse.
That other Jersey guy, Springsteen, joined Mccartney for the duet on “Glory Days” and a version of “I Wanna Be Your Man.” He later popped up to join the guitar duel from “Abbey Road.”
With the help of Peter Jackson, who re-imagined the “Get Back” sessions for last year’s television project, Mccartney was able to perform a virtual “duet” with Lennon singing his part of “I’ve Got a Feeling” from the Apple rooftop concert. Mccartney also paid tribute to
George Harrison, who died in 2001, with a version of “Something” that began with Paul on a ukulele George gave him and built to a full band version.
On Friday, Mccartney’s team announced that it was packaging his albums “Mccartney” (1970), “Mccartney II” (1980) and “Mccartney III” (2020) into a boxed set that will go on sale in August.
Actor Trintignant dies:
French film legend and amateur race car driver Jean-louis Trintignant, who earned acclaim for his role in “A Man and a Woman,” has died at age 91. Trintignant died Friday in his home in southern France, according to Bertrand Cortellini, who operated a vineyard with the actor and did not divulge details. French news reports said Trintignant had prostate cancer.
Trintignant starred in several films by French
director Claude Lelouch, most famously “A Man and a Woman” in 1966, which won the Oscar for best foreign film. Trintignant played a race car driver
— a passion he pursued off screen — in a complex romance alongside Anouk Aimee.
Trintignant, who appeared in more than 100 films, also earned international attention in Michael Haneke’s 2013 Oscar-winning drama “Amour,” a raw depiction of an aging couple and the ravages of Alzheimer’s on their love.
June 18 birthdays: Musician Paul Mccartney is 80. Actor Constance Mccashin is 75. Actor Linda Thorson is 75.
Actor Carol Kane is 70. Actor Andrea Evans is 65. Keyboardist Dizzy Reed is 59. Actor Alana de la Garza is 46. Singer Blake Shelton is 46. Actor Renee Olstead is 33. Actor Jacob Anderson is 32.