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| Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr: reunite on stage at this year’s Grammys Photograph: Apple Corps/PA |
Following rumours that TV producers were courting Paul McCartney
and Ringo Starr for a musical reunion at New York’s Ed Sullivan
Theatre, it has now been revealed that the stars will perform together
at this year’s Grammys.
The Beatles,
who won Best New Artist at the show in 1965, are the 2014 winners of
the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award on the night, while
McCartney has also been nominated for Best Music Film for concert movie
Live Kisses and Best Rock Song with Cut Me Some Slack, his collaboration with the surviving members of Nirvana.
The pair last played together at Starr’s 70th birthday in 2010 at
New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. “We are good friends,” Starr
told the Daily Mail in 2011. “We don’t live in each other’s pockets, but
if we’re in the same country, we get together … We’re the only two
who’ve experienced all this who are still here.”
Alongside the previously announced performances from Metallica and Lang Lang and Daft Punk and Stevie Wonder,
Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, John Legend and Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis will also play at the event, which takes place at The
Staples Center in Los Angeles on 26 January.
To mark 50 years
since the Beatles kicked-off American Beatlemania on The Ed Sullivan
Show, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart will also reunite the Eurythmics for
the first time in almost a decade, paying tribute to the Beatles at a
concert on 7 February. The duo are expected to cover one of their Fab
Four favourites alongside performances by Maroon 5, Alicia Keys and John
Legend.
