Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are the last two surviving members of the iconic band The Beatles. On Friday, the two of them surprised everyone by reuniting at McCartney’s final show at London’s O2 Arena!
McCartney And Starr Reunite
McCartney, 82, stunned his fans by introducing Starr, 84, as he walked onstage.
“I want to tell you, I’ve had a great night tonight,” McCartney said.
“Shall we rock?” he then asked Starr.
McCartney and Starr proceeded to perform the classic Beatles songs “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Helter Skelter.”
Check out the touching reunion for yourself below.
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McCartney And Starr Loved This Reunion
At the beginning of this concert, McCartney had told the crowd, “Oh London, this is the last night of our current tour, we’ve been around South America and all over the place. So it’s great to be back and we’re going to have some fun tonight.”
Starr made it clear just how much this meant to him.
“It’s fantastic, playing with me old mate, but there comes a time when we’ve got to go home,” Starr said. “All that remains to be said…. I’ve had a great night and I love you all.”
The audience couldn’t believe their luck at getting to see this reunion unfold.
“It felt utterly surreal,” one audience member told Deadline. “Normally, you’d be up, and out of your seat and dancing like mad. But in my row alone, and I imagine hundreds of others, our jaws were just hanging. We were literally watching a Beatles reunion. Not ‘as good as. It was the actual Beatles. There came a sound of sobbing. I realized it was me.”
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Starr Gushes Over McCartney
Last year, Starr opened up about his time as a Beatle.
“We all went mad at different times. You can’t imagine what it was like being in the Beatles. It got bigger and crazier,” Starr said at the time. “We were playing clubs, and then we made a record, ‘Love Me Do.’ My God, there’s nothing bigger than that, our first vinyl. We found out the BBC was going to play ‘Love Me Do’ at 2:17, or whatever time it was, and we pulled the car over. ‘Wow! We’re on the radio, man!'”
McCartney and Starr made up The Beatles along with John Lennon and George Harrison. Lennon was tragically murdered by a deranged fan back in 1980 at the age of 40. Harrison later died of cancer in 2001 when he was 58 years-old.
In the decades since the passings of Lennon and Harrison, McCartney and Starr have remained close.
“Paul called me the other day … We’re close, close friends,” Starr told CNN last year. “We’re brothers and you know, for me it was great because I’m an only child and suddenly I had three brothers that I could love, I could rely on, I could help out. You know, it was a great moment for me.”
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time. Indeed, they’ve sold an estimated 1.6 billion singles in the U.S. and over 600 million albums worldwide. The iconic band also has 20 No.1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, the most of any band in history.
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