Paul McCartney + Beck Play Two Beatles Songs at PETA Gala

In 35 years, PETA U.S. – whose motto reads, “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or abuse in any other way” – has grown from a handful of volunteers into the world’s largest animal rights organisation, with more than 3 million members and supporters worldwide.

McCartney played a lengthy set at #PETA35, including the Beatles classics “Let It Be“, “Hey Jude’ and his animal rights track “Looking for Changes“, a press release states”.

The legendary Beatle, who also appeared in the Simpsons episode “Lisa the Vegetarian”, and Beck got together to play The Beatles’ “Drive My Car” and “I’ve Just Seen a Face“. A few fan-filmed clips of McCartney’s set, with and without Beck, have been posted on YouTube. I thought that was really a very dignified, very cool title.

Prior to McCartney’s performance, the event featured a humanitarian awards presentation, which Pamela Anderson and Anjelica Houston hosted. Among the evenings honorees were Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, rapper RZA, comic Bill Maher and actors Alicia Silverstone, Jason Biggs, James Cromwell and Fred Willard. Guests at the event included Kesha, Rob Zombie, Moby, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal and AFI frontman Davey Havok.