The UK is in the midst of the annual summer time flurry of live shows, excursions and festivals.

Some of the largest names on the planet from Pink to Guns ‘n Roses, Billy Joel and Elton John have hit the levels in every single place from Glastonbury to British Summertime Hyde Park.

Paul McCartney, nonetheless, has been focussing on selling the brand new Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm exhibition on the National Portrait Gallery in London.

It options extraordinary photos of all 4 Beatles from their heyday within the band collectively, together with some which have by no means been seen earlier than.

At the launch, the icon additionally named the guy artist who had modified stay reveals for everybody.

McCartney was trying again fondly of the times when pop stars have been solely anticipated to do a few numbers at a present – and at most seem on stage for half an hour.

He stated: “You can’t now do an hour, we used to do a half hour. That was The Beatles thing – half an hour and we got paid for it. I tried to work out why was it so short.

“Well, because there were a lot of people on the bill, and I think when you went to a thing if you were a comedian the promoter would say ‘how long can you do? Four minutes?’ The guy would say yes, so they would do four, and so we thought, ‘well, half an hour that’s like epic’… It didn’t seem strange.”

McCartney blamed it all on one man – Bruce Springsteen. Asked if it was the US rock legend who changed the face of modern concerts, McCartney drily said: “He did…

“These days, pretty much there’s a main act and there might be a warm-up act. Then, it was a lot of people on the bill because nobody did long, now people will do three or four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen – I’ve told him so, I said ‘It’s your fault man.'”

The two stars, after all, are nice buddies, with Springsteen becoming a member of the Beatles legend on stage for the ultimate present of his Get Back Us Tour final June.