Paul McCartney and Ringo Star reunited onstage at the Radio City Music Hall for the first time in almost seven years on Saturday night.

The two surviving Beatles performed to help raise money for the David Lynch Foundation’s "Change Begins Within" benefit, which aimed to raise money in order to teach transcendental meditation techniques to one million children around the world. The Beatles themselves have used those same techniques.

During McCartney’s lengthy solo set he called Ringo to the stage saying:

"At this point we would like to introduce somebody to you who you know, you’ve heard his name. He’s going to come out here and play you a little song this joyful night. Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Shears!"

As it is, "Shears," Starr’s Sgt. Pepper pseudonym, and McCartney last played together in November 2002, at London’s Concert for George held in the wake of George Harrison’s death.

Neil Aspinall (66), a longtime friend and member of The Beatles’ business enterprises, died of cancer in New York City on Sunday night, surviving members of the band announced Monday, the Associated Press reports.

British newspapers reported over the weekend that Paul McCartney (65) visited the hospital where Aspinall, who was a Liverpool school chum of McCartney and George Harrison’s, was being treated.

"All his friends and loved ones will greatly miss him, but will always retain the fondest memories of a great man," said a statement released by McCartney, Ringo Starr, the widows of Harrison and John Lennon (Yoko Ono), and the band’s Apple Corps Ltd. Company, for which Aspinall had served as CEO until stepping down last year.

Aspinall began as the original The Beatles road manager, driving them to their earliest gigs.