Bruce Springsteen was joined onstage by Paul McCartney in Liverpool to cover The Beatles’ Can’t Buy Me Love.
McCartney teamed up with Springsteen and the E Street Band during the encore at the second of the latter’s two gigs at Anfield Park, home of Liverpool football club, on Saturday June 10. The two men also covered 50s rock’n’roll number Kansas City, popularised by Little Richard and covered by The Beatles in the early 60s. Watch footage of both songs below.
It’s not the first time Springsteen and McCartney have appeared together onstage. The former Beatle joined the E Street Band onstage at London’s Hyde Park in 2012 to play I Saw Her Standing There and Twist And Shout, only for the plug to be pulled mid-song by organisers due the gig over-running – an event that prompted E Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt to ask, “When did England become a police state?”.
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In 2022, Springsteen appeared at a McCartney show in New Jersey on the latter’s Get Back tour, where they played The Boss’s 1985 hit Glory Days and The Beatles’ I Wanna Be Your Man. Springsteen once again joined Macca a few days later at the latter’s Glastonbury headlining set.
Not many days you get to say you've seen Sir Paul McCartney perform with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 🤩Kinda makes up for the rugby today 😅 pic.twitter.com/Y2lrhZ42qvJune 7, 2025
Not many days you get to say you've seen Sir Paul McCartney perform with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 🤩Kinda makes up for the rugby today 😅 pic.twitter.com/Y2lrhZ42qvJune 7, 2025
Not many days you get to say you've seen Sir Paul McCartney perform with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 🤩Kinda makes up for the rugby today 😅 pic.twitter.com/Y2lrhZ42qvJune 7, 2025
Not many days you get to say you've seen Sir Paul McCartney perform with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 🤩Kinda makes up for the rugby today 😅 pic.twitter.com/Y2lrhZ42qvJune 7, 2025
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