Paul McCartney joined Bruce Springsteen on stage in Liverpool tonight to play a model of The Beatles’ ‘Can’t Purchase Me Love’ – watch beneath.
The Boss performed the second of two exhibits at Anfield, the house of Liverpool FC, on Saturday evening (June 7) and through his encore, he welcomed the Beatles legend onto the stage.
Returning the favour after Springsteen appeared throughout McCartney’s large Glastonbury set in 2022, the 2 icons performed ‘Can’t Purchase Me Love’, from 1964’s ‘A Arduous Day’s Night time’, and adopted it with the basic rock’n’roll tune ‘Kansas Metropolis’, made well-known in 1955 by Little Richard.
Try fan-captured footage of the second right here:
Bruce Springsteen simply introduced out Paul McCartney at Anfield!!!!! pic.twitter.com/vPZA8fMKmy
— Stuart Daynes (@stuartdaynes) June 7, 2025
Not many days you get to say you’ve got seen Sir Paul McCartney carry out with Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band 🤩
Kinda makes up for the rugby right this moment 😅 pic.twitter.com/Y2lrhZ42qv
— Nicholas Waite (@NicholasWaite17) June 7, 2025
McCartney turned up at Springsteen #Springsteen #McCartney pic.twitter.com/Q7dwTF8ck9
— Lambanana (@Lambanana1) June 7, 2025
Bruce Springsteen performed:
‘Ghosts’
‘Land Of Hope And Goals’
‘Demise To My Hometown’
‘Seeds’
‘Lonesome Day’
‘Rainmaker’
‘Darkness On The Edge Of City’
‘The Promised Land’
‘Hungry Coronary heart’
‘My Hometown’
‘The River’
‘Youngstown’
‘Homicide Integrated’
‘Lengthy Stroll Residence’
‘Home Of A Thousand Guitars’
‘My Metropolis Of Ruins’
‘As a result of The Night time’
‘Wrecking Ball’
‘The Rising’
‘Badlands’
‘Thunder Street’
‘Can’t Purchase Me Love’ (with Paul McCartney)
‘Kansas Metropolis’ (with Paul McCartney)
‘Born In The USA’
‘Born To Run’
‘Glory Days’
‘Dancing In The Darkish’
‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out’
Within the hours earlier than the present, Springsteen and McCartney had been additionally noticed collectively on the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, an establishment that was based by McCartney in 1996.
2 world legends, Bruce Springsteen (75) and Paul McCartney (82). They’d a gathering right this moment on the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. On the assembly, followers speculated that there was a risk that Sir Paul would be part of the Boss on stage for Springsteen’s present at Anfield this… pic.twitter.com/1BuG1iUFTu
— James Tate (@JamesTate121) June 7, 2025
Sir Paul McCartney & Bruce Springsteen at LIPA this afternoon @LivEchonews pic.twitter.com/iR1CeqnieX
— Andy Teebay (@andyteebaypics) June 6, 2025
Springsteen was a visitor through the encore of McCartney’s 2022 Glastonbury headline set. “This man flew in particularly to do that,” McCartney stated to introduce him, and the 2 launched into variations of ‘Glory Days’ and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’.
That got here simply days after they did the identical songs collectively throughout Macca’s ‘Get Again’ tour on the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Years earlier, Springsteen had joined McCartney at Hyde Park in London for a rendition of ‘I Noticed Her Standing There’.
Final 12 months, McCartney offered Springsteen with the Fellow Of The Ivors Academy prize on the Ivor Novello Awards in London. “Like Bruce’s concert events, I’m going to maintain this transient,” he joked, referencing the Boss’ three hour plus concert events, earlier than including that he “couldn’t consider a extra becoming” recipient “besides possibly Bob Dylan, or Paul Simon, or Billy Joel, or Beyoncé, or Taylor Swift. The checklist goes on.”
He continued: “He’s generally known as the American working man however he admits he’s by no means labored a day in his life.”
The previous Beatle has additionally quipped up to now that the Boss is the one he “blames” for followers coming to count on main stars to play lengthy units.
