McCartney bans meat on tour

1.00pm

Paul McCartney is performing without Wings. Or thighs. Or drumsticks.

Crew members on the set of the singer's concert are up in arms because the staunch vegetarian has banned the eating of meat by anyone working on the tour, reports MSNBC.com.

"It's completely crazy," one worker in Oslo, where the former Beatle was to perform tonight, told the paper Aftenposten.

"We're supposed to work from 8 till 8 each day, and aren't served anything but salad and vegetarian food. I can't live without meat doing this kind of work, and will defy the ban and bring my own lunch packet with meat.

"We can't control what they do in their spare time," a spokesman for the concert organisers told Aftenposten. "But as long as they're inside the stadium area, it's correct that they are banned from eating meat."