Tearing through a three-dozen song set that enraptured a 75,000-strong crowd in the California desert, McCartney welcomed to the stage fellow rock elder Neil Young -- the day’s other performer -- for a mash-up that built into the anthem "Give Peace a Chance. For Harrison, he played the deceased songwriter’s "Something" off the "Abbey Road" album -- on ukulele, with McCartney trying twice after finding the instrument out-of-tune. "It was George who signed us to a record contract, so without him there wouldn’t be any Beatle recordings," McCartney said. "But Young quipped that Trump may have another message from Sunday’s headliner Roger Waters, the force behind Pink Floyd’s "The Wall. "Trump, a staunch critic of immigration, has vowed to build his own wall on the Mexican border to "make America great again.

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 09, 2016 13:18 UTC