Sir Paul McCartney performs onstage during day 2 of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 14, 2013, in Manchester, Tenn. Even a former Beatle needs a moment standing on the main stage at Bonnaroo. A few songs into his transcendent first set at the massive Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Paul McCartney wrapped his arms around his signature Hofner bass and surveyed a crowd of 80,000 adoring fans. "Hey, listen, I'm going to take a moment just to drink all this in for myself," McCartney said. McCartney is one of the world's most recognizable musicians and showed why as he led a massive 2 1/2-hour sing-a-long of three dozen songs that included two encores Friday night. Playing for a crowd consisting mostly of fans who were born a decade or more after the Beatles broke up in 1971, he lavishly revisited the Beatles, Wings and his own solo catalog, laying down hit after hit and playing two Beatles cuts he only recently began playing live for the first time – "Lovely Rita" and "Mr. Mustard." McCartney, who turns 71 next week, acknowledged some cultural similarities between the generations, however. Read more
