Sir Paul McCartney halts his Glastonbury headlining set to check on unwell member of the crowd

Sir Paul McCartney halted his Glastonbury headlining set to check on an unwell member of the crowd who he was concerned about.

The music star made history as the oldest ever solo star to headline the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, gracing the coveted Pyramid Stage in Worthy Farm.

The music legend, who last week celebrated his 80th birthday, took to the stage for a crowd of thousands with a medley of his biggest hits, his first performance at the festival since 2004.

Kind: Sir Paul McCartney halted his Glastonbury headlining set to check on an unwell member of the crowd who he was concerned about

But Paul paused his tribute to Jimi Hendrix during his set to make sure that a festival goer was okay.  

A source told The Mirror of the moment: ‘The crowd were going wild for Paul as soon as he stepped on stage.

‘He was in the middle of his tribute to Jimmy Hendricks when he stopped to check on someone in the crowd.’

It is not known what was wrong with the member of the crowd.

Disruption: But Paul paused his tribute to Jimmy Hendricks during his set to make sure that a festival goer was okay (pictured: the crowds pointed to the man involved to get someone’s attention)

Paul stopped on stage and pointed to the area in question, and said: ‘What’s going on over there? Is there something happening there? If so let’s tend to it. Come on…Okay.’ 

A moment later he added: ‘It’s okay we sorted it we sorted it. There you go mate!’

He then joked: ‘It wasn’t that solo I played? Alright.’

Elsewhere during his set Johnny showed his allegiance to his pal Johnny Depp while performing his 2012 track, My Valentine, as he projected a clip of the actor from the song’s music video onto the screen behind him.

Drama: A source told The Mirror of the moment: ‘The crowd were going wild for Paul as soon as he stepped on stage. He was in the middle of his tribute to Jimmy Hendricks when he stopped to check on someone in the crowd’

He recently used the footage in his recent US Get Back tour, while the Pirates Of The Caribbean star was in the midst of his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, which he later won.

Also featuring Natalie Portman, the black-and-white video sees the Hollywood star playing guitar and translating the track into sign language. 

Paul did not address Depp’s $100million court case against Amber directly during the concert but as soon as the images of the actor appeared on stage, the crowd cheered.

Incredible: The music star made history as the oldest ever solo star to headline the Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, gracing the coveted Pyramid Stage in Worthy Farm

The Love Me Do hitmaker also got the crowd to cheer for his home city of Liverpool, as well as his late bandmate John Lennon, to whom he dedicated Here Today to. 

The show proves a poignant moment in Paul’s lengthy career, as it also came 55 years to the day since The Beatles reached the largest audience in their history, when they performed on the world’s first global TV broadcast. 

Greeting the crowd at the start of the show, Paul said: ‘Oh man, it’s so good to be here. We were supposed to be doing this three years ago!’ alluding to his prior booking at the festival, before it was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic. 

The performer donned a smart navy blue Nehru jacket for the opening moments of his headline set, but later removed it, telling the crowd it would be his ‘only wardrobe change of the night.’ 

Concern: Paul stopped on stage and pointed to the area in question, and said: ‘What’s going on over there? Is there something happening there? If so let’s tend to it’

Along with his show coming 55 years since a historic worldwide performance by The Beatles, Paul also hearkened back to the group’s heyday by performing with his original guitar from his famous stint with the band.

During the show Paul also paid tribute to fellow rock legend Jimi Hendrix with a performance of Wings’ Let Me Roll It, and reflected on the time he spent with the musician when he visited London.

He said: ‘He was a lovely man. One of the greatest tributes he ever paid us was we released Sgt Pepper as a tribute to him and he opened his show with it, he played it really well as a solo… he was really working it, giving it a lot of welly.’

Important: The show proves a poignant moment in Paul’s lengthy career, as it also came 55 years to the day since The Beatles reached the largest audience in their history, when they performed on the world’s first global TV broadcast

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With Paul having celebrated his 80th birthday last Saturday, his crowd of adoring fans sang Happy Birthday to him, before he broke into song with his 1995 hit, I Feel Like I’m Letting Go.

While fans at Glastonbury were no doubt eagerly anticipating Pauls’ headline set, many viewers at home were also eager to watch it on BBC.

However, while Paul’s show began at 9:30pm, BBC delayed broadcasting the show until 10:30pm, with many viewers sharing their anger on social media.

Paul’s much-anticipated gig came exactly 55 years after the Beatles reached their biggest-ever audience on the world’s first global TV broadcast. 

The Beatles performed All You Need is Love to around 400 million people across 24 countries on June 25 1967 – live from the famed Abbey Road Studios.

There was also a star-studded audience in the studio – including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Who drummer Keith Moon and singer Marianne Faithful among others.

Amazing: With Paul having celebrated his 80th birthday last Saturday, his crowd of adoring fans sang Happy Birthday to him, before he broke into song with his 1995 hit, I Feel Like I’m Letting Go

Outrage: However, while Paul’s show began at 9:30pm, BBC delayed broadcasting the show until 10:30pm, with many viewers sharing their anger on social media