{"id":1965614,"date":"2023-07-06T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:32:06","slug":"paul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney blames Bruce Springsteen for long musician performances."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpaul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Paul McCartney Blames Bruce Springsteen for Long Performances<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paul McCartney recently voiced his frustration with the trend of performers putting on hours-long shows, and he pointed the finger at none other than Bruce Springsteen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the former Beatles band member, before Springsteen&#8217;s influence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-mccartney-says-bruce-springsteen-is-to-blame-for-musicians-being-expected-to-play-for-hours\/\" title=\"Paul McCartney blames Bruce Springsteen for long musician performances.\">major musical acts<\/a> were content with shorter performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During an interview on Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s podcast, McCartney explained, &#8220;These days it\u2019s pretty much the main act and there might be a warm-up act. Back when the Beatles were popular, bands never played for that long because one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-tonight-critical-race-theory-is-more-patriotic-than-patriotism\/\" title=\"Don Lemon Tonight: Critical Race Theory \u2018Is More Patriotic\u2019 Than Patriotism\">show featured<\/a> so many other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-in-competitive-races-distance-themselves-from-biden-student-debt-bailout\/\" title=\"Democrats in Competitive Races Distance Themselves From Biden Student Debt Bailout\">major acts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McCartney humorously blamed Springsteen for the change, stating, &#8220;Now, people do three, four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen. I\u2019ve told him so. I\u2019ve said, \u2018It\u2019s your fault.\u2019 You can\u2019t now do an hour. We used to do a half hour. That was like the Beatles\u2019 thing. Half an hour, and we got paid for it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">O&#8217;Brien agreed, jokingly adding, &#8220;He ruined it for everyone.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McCartney reminisced about the early days when playing for 30 minutes was considered extensive. Promoters would ask, &#8220;\u2018How long can you do? Four minutes? Can you do four minutes?\u2019 And the guy would say, \u2018Yeah,\u2019 so they would do four. So, we thought, \u2018Half an hour, that\u2019s like epic.\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a previous interview, Springsteen admitted that he unintentionally set the precedent for long performances and now feels obligated to continue. McCartney also revealed that he contemplated quitting the music business after the Beatles disbanded but ultimately took the risk, which paid off.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McCartney criticized the pressure on performers to deliver lengthy shows, attributing it to Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s influence. The ex-Beatle noted that in the past, major acts could perform for shorter durations and still satisfy audiences. Nowadays, it&#8217;s primarily the main act, with little room for additional performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1965615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}