Desert Trip, the New Mega-Festival, Hears Rock History Via McCartney, Stones Malay Mail Online
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Paul McCartney and Neil Young perform the Beatles A Day in the Life and John Lennon"s Give Peace a Chance live at Desert Trip in Indio (Fake Fan)

The Desert Trip mega-festival of rock greats is meant to be historic and Paul McCartney yesterday served as a willing instructor, presenting a musical journey from pre-Beatles fare to hip-hop collaboration.

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.

Desert Trip, forecast to be the most lucrative music festival in history, is bringing together six of the biggest names in rock over back-to-back weekends with identical lineups. The festival opened Friday with the Rolling Stones who, in their signature blues rock style, played an unexpected cover of Come Together by The Beatles — the fellow British rock superstars often viewed as the Stones’ rivals.



The former Beatle returned the favor a day later by performing the early Stones single I Wanna Be Your Man — which was written by McCartney and John Lennon.



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