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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

Paul McCartney 'stopped in his tracks' by Glastonbury crowd

Sir Paul McCartney temporarily stopped his headline Glastonbury show as fans broke into a spontaneous rendition of Happy Birthday.

The former Beatles star, who turned 80 last week, stopped to address the crowd after his second song when they started to sing to him. The stunned McCartney asked "for me?" as the huge crowd joined together to acknowledge his 80th birthday.

McCartney said: "Oh, man it's so good to be here. We were supposed to be doing this three years ago. But here we are. We've got some old songs for you, we've got some new songs and we've got some in-betweeners...and I got a feeling we're going to have a great time."

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