Paul McCartney says musicians today are expected to perform much longer concerts than the Beatles did in the 1960s, and he appears to blame Bruce Springsteen for it.
“These days it’s pretty much the main act and there might be a warmup act,” McCartney recently told Conan O’Brien on his “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. Sir Paul said “nobody” did long sets during the Beatles’ time because there were so many other acts in a show.
“Now, people do three, four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen. I’ve told him so. I’ve said, ‘It’s your fault,’” McCartney said.
The “Yesterday” singer, who has performed with Springsteen and regularly does longer shows as a solo artist, added, “You can’t now do an hour. We used to do a half hour. That was like the Beatles’ thing. Half an hour, and we got paid for it.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to McCartney’s rep for comment.
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Springsteen admitted he “screwed the whole thing up by playing too f—— long” in an interview with O’Brien in 2020, agreeing the Beatles’ 30-minute concerts didn’t sound “so bad” when the comedian compared their show lengths with his.
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“There’s a couple of times in life when you are forced into taking a risk. After the Beatles, this was my situation: ‘Do I keep going with music, or not?’” he wrote. “The risk paid off.”