Nice! Of all the special guests who have joined Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band over the years, this may be the most special one.

Sir Paul McCartney joined in for "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout," the final two songs of Springsteen's 29-song set, 3:13 headlining set at the Hard Rock Calllng Festival in London's Hyde Park on Saturday.



Some tweets says the sound was cut off during the final song, since Bruce went over curfew.

Update: They did cut the power due to the curfew toward the very end of "Twist and Shout." Reports say Bruce was going to play another song but could not.

Little Steven Van Zandt on his Twitter account was not too happy about it. Here are the tweets he fired off in a row late Saturday evening:

‏@StevieVanZandt

One of the great gigs ever in my opinion. But seriously, when did England become a police state?

‏@StevieVanZandt

We break curfews in every country but only English cops needs to "punish us" by not letting us leave until the entire crowd goes.

‏@StevieVanZandt

Is there just too much fun in the world? We would have been off by 11 if we'd done one more. On a Saturday night! Who were we disturbing?

‏@StevieVanZandt

The cops got nothing more important to do? How about they go catch some criminals instead of (expletive deleted) with 80,000 people having a good time?

‏@StevieVanZandt

English cops may be the only individuals left on earth that wouldn't want to hear one more from Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney!

‏@StevieVanZandt

I'm sorry but I have to be honest I'm pissed. Like I said, it didn't ruin the great night. But when I'm jamming with McCartney don't bug me!

‏@StevieVanZandt

Ha! @raindogs70 just reminded me how the Beatles' rooftop concert ended. Not much has changed in 43 years!

Also, my friends Caryn Rose and Glenn Radecki, who were at the show, reported this on the Springsteen fan website Backstreets newspage:

"Tonight's show was the first of the tour to omit "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out," although not for lack of trying. After finishing "Twist and Shout," with Paul McCartney leaving the stage, Bruce and Steve both were signaling for the band to return to their positions so they could play one more song. Bruce tried to count off the song, but his microphone was no longer being amplified over the speakers. Bruce's monitor engineer actually had to come on stage to advise that the PA had been cut off. Unwilling to just walk off without doing something else, Bruce sang a few lines of the folk standard "Goodnight Irene," audible only to those near the stage, before leaving. Beholden to a 10:30pm curfew which had been broken by about eleven minutes at that point, Bruce was unable to continue as the plug was literally pulled on this amazing show."

CNN also had a report on Bruce and Paul being cut off.

Saturday's show also featured the Wrecking Ball Tour premiere of "Take 'Em As They Come," a rarely played gem from "The River" period which is on the "Tracks" box set.

Bruce has only performed the song nine times before, the last being on June 14, 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark.



John Fogerty and Tom Morello also joined Bruce. Fogerty played on "The Promised Land" and Morello, as he has a few times already this tour, joined in on three different songs.

Earlier in the day, Bruce joined Fogerty during his set on "Rockin' All Over The World."

The show opened with just Bruce and Roy Bittan performing "Thunder Road." That's something I would like to see.

Show began at 7:28 (five hours ahead of New Jersey).

Set list:

1. Thunder Road (Bruce & Roy)

2. Badlands

3. We Take Care of Our Own

4. Wrecking Ball

5. Death to My Hometown (with Tom Morello)

6. My City of Ruins

7. Spirit In The Night

8. The Promised Land (with John Forgerty)

9. Take 'Em As They Come (tour premiere, sign request)

10. Jack of All Trades (with Tom Morello)

11. Empty Sky (solo acoustic)

12. Because the Night

13. Johnny 99

14. Darlington County

15. Workin' on the Highway

16. Shackled & Drawn

17. Waitin' on a Sunny Day

18. Raise Your Hand

19. The River

20. The Ghost of Tom Joad (with Tom Morello)

21. The Rising

22. Land of Hope & Dreams

Encores:

23. We Are Alive

24. Born in the USA

25. Born To Run

26. Glory Days

27. Dancing in the Dark

28. I Saw Her Standing There (with Paul McCartney, tour premiere)

29. Twist and Shout (with Paul McCartney)

Show over at 10:41 p.m.

Next show: Tuesday, the first of back-to-back nights at the RDS Arena in Dublin, Ireland.

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