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Paul McCartney in Dublin?!?!?
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12-03-2012 6:16pm#1
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yep here is the boring old fart that achieved nothing after the beatles.:D
Main article: List of awards received by Paul McCartney
McCartney performing in Prague, 6 June 2004
McCartney is listed in The Guinness Book Of Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold discs,[231] "Sir Paul McCartney became the Most Successful Songwriter who has written/co written 188 charted records, of which 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1 totalling 1,662 weeks on the chart (up to the beginning of 2008)."[232]
In the US, McCartney has achieved thirty-two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including twenty-one with The Beatles,[7] one as a co-writer on Elton John's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds",[10] nine solo, with Wings or other collaborators,[8] and one as the composer of "A World Without Love", a number one single for Peter and Gordon.[9] In the UK, McCartney has been involved in more number-one singles than any other artist under a variety of credits, although Elvis Presley has achieved more as a solo artist. McCartney has twenty four number-one singles in the UK, including seventeen with the Beatles, one solo, and one each with Wings, Stevie Wonder, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Band Aid 20 and one with "The Christians et all".[6] McCartney is the only artist to reach the UK number one as a soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", The Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", The Beatles with Billy Preston), and as part of a musical ensemble for charity (Ferry Aid).[233]
McCartney was voted the "Greatest Composer of the Millennium" by BBC News Online readers and McCartney's song "Yesterday" is thought to be the most covered song in history with more than 2,200 recorded versions[3] and according to the BBC, "The track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list. Sir Paul McCartney's Yesterday is the most played song by a British writer this century in the US."[4] After its 1977 release, the Wings single "Mull of Kintyre" became the highest-selling record in British chart history, and remained so until 1984.[234] (Three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so, in 1984, was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in which McCartney was a participant.)
On 2 July 2005, he was involved with the fastest-released single in history. His performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with U2 at Live 8 was released only 45 minutes after it was performed, before the end of the concert.[235] The single reached number six on the Billboard charts, just hours after the single's release, and hit number one on numerous online download charts across the world.[236] McCartney played for the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 people paid to see him perform at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 21 April 1990.[237]
McCartney's scheduled concert in St Petersburg, Russia was his 3,000th concert and took place in front of 60,000 fans in Russia, on 20 June 2004.[238] Over his career, McCartney has played 2,523 gigs with The Beatles, 140 with Wings, and 325 as a solo artist.[239] Only his second concert in Russia, with the first just the year before on Moscow's Red Square as the former Communist U.S.S.R. had previously banned music from The Beatles as a "corrupting influence", McCartney hired three jets, at a reported cost of $36,000 (€29,800) (£28,000), to spray dry ice in the clouds above Saint Petersburg's Winter Palace Square in a successful attempt to prevent rain.[240]
The day McCartney flew into the former Soviet country, he celebrated his 62nd birthday, and after the concert, according to RIA Novosti news agency, he received a phone call from a fan; then-President Vladimir Putin, who telephoned him after the concert to wish him a happy birthday.
McCartney receiving the Gershwin Award from President Barack Obama in the White House, June 2010
In the concert programme for his 1989 world tour, McCartney wrote that Lennon received all the credit for being the avant-garde Beatle,[71] and McCartney was known as "baby-faced", which he disagreed with.[241] People also assumed that Lennon was the "hard-edged one", and McCartney was the "soft-edged" Beatle,[23] although McCartney admitted to "bossing Lennon around."[242] Linda McCartney said that McCartney had a "hard-edge" – and not just on the surface – which she knew about after all the years she had spent living with him.[23][243] McCartney seemed to confirm this edge when he commented that he sometimes meditates, which he said is better than "sleeping, eating, or shouting at someone".[179]
The minor planet 4148, discovered in 1983, was named "McCartney" in his honour.[244]
On 18 June 2006, McCartney celebrated his 64th birthday, a milestone that was the subject of one of the first songs he ever wrote, at the age of sixteen,[245] The Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four". Paul Vallely noted in The Independent:Paul McCartney's 64th birthday is not merely a personal event. It is a cultural milestone for a generation. Such is the nature of celebrity, McCartney is one of those people who has represented the hopes and aspirations of those born in the baby-boom era, which had its awakening in the Sixties.McCartney received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 9 February 2012, the last one of the Fab Four to receive the honor.[247]
—Paul Vallely, 2006[246]
McCartney will receive the MusiCares Person of the Year honour on 10 February 2012.[67]0 -
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"McCartney received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame" So did Mr. Ed the talking horse.
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OK folks big fan of McCartney here saw him twice in Dublin, in the Hammersmith Apollo and the Echo Arena in liverpool.
This is all I know right now, there are no Dublin rumours right now but he had been scheduled to do some shows in Denmark in July but he cancelled them because he wants to reschedule them later on as part of a European tour. So hopefully this winter or next spring he will do another mini tour of Europe and include Dublin.
He was absolutely unreal both times I saw him in Dublin, he seemed a lot different and happy than he did when I saw him in England! The O2 was maybe a better gig because that is the best venue in the world in my opinion. But I lean towards the RDS show because I had a front row ticket
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I would not be a big Beatles fan but Wings were a great band with a few great albums. I saw McCartney in the RDS in 04 and I was at the 02 show in December a few years back and both shows were superb. I hope he returns again.
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