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Sir Paul Mccartney Has Lent His Support to Reducing The Carbon Footprint of This Year’s

January 22nd, 2011

Sir Paul McCartney has lent his support to reducing the carbon footprint of this year’s Isle of Wight Festival, where he is the headline act. The ninth festival to take place on the island since its return from its 1970 heyday gets under way on Thursday. The annual event was restarted at Seaclose Park in Newport in 2002 and is one of the UK’s largest festivals. McCartney was recently honored at the White House where he was given the Gershwin Prize by Barack Obama. Paul McCartney brought down the White House at an East Room concert last week by belting out “Michelle,” aiming its romantic lyrics straight at first lady Michelle Obama. After serenading the first lady with the words, “I love you, I love you, I love you,” McCartney joked that he just might be the “first guy ever to be punched out by a president.”President Barack Obama didn’t seem to mind though. He was swaying along to the beat while his wife mouthed the words.The 90-minute concert was built around Obama’s presentation to McCartney of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

The North American leg of Paul McCartney’s Up and Coming tour kicks-off in a month and Toronto and Montreal have made the cut. McCartney will also be stopping by the Bell Centre in Montreal on August 12th.These are the only Canadian dates on a tour that will also include Pittsburgh and Kansas City, but it is an improvement considering he only stopped by Halifax last year and Quebec City the year before. There is no word yet on whether Canadian taxpayers will have to incur similar costs for the 67-year-old’s Toronto and Montreal gigs. Paul McCartney has added five new concerts to his Up and Coming tour. The rock legend is expanding the trek with a string of concerts in the U.S. and Canada. The shows in the U.S. will begin July 15 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. Sir Paul McCartney, former Beatles co-leader and Wings frontman, will perform his first concert in Utah when he brings a band and his “Up and Coming” tour to Rio Tinto Stadium.

After performing at the Foro Sol arena in Mexico City on Thursday, Paul McCartney got a big scare! Macca’s tour bus came under attack while driving through an impoverished neighborhood. The driver was forced to break as a crowd scaled the bus and jumped up and down on its roof. “At first his security team thought it was just swarms of fans but when people started scaling the bus, the situation changed in a flash. Paul and the team were left shaken up,” claims a source. Paul McCartney, arguably the most successful performer and composer in popular music, will open CONSOL Energy Center on Wednesday August 18, 2010 with a Grand Opening Concert, bringing his Up and Coming 2010 Tour to Pittsburgh.

Keeping with his headline-making special concerts, the tour will feature the iconic star and his band returning to Pittsburgh for the first time in more than 20 years. McCartney performed back-to-back, sold-out concerts in the Pittsburgh Civic Arena in February, 1990. Sir Paul made his Pittsburgh debut with The Beatles on September 14, 1964 at the Civic Arena.

The Legendary Icon Paul McCartney Is Arguably The Most Successful Performer

January 8th, 2011

The legendary icon Paul McCartney is arguably the most successful performer and composer in popular music, will open CONSOL Energy Center on Wednesday August 18, 2010 with a Grand Opening Concert, bringing his Up and Coming 2010 Tour to Pittsburgh. Keeping with his headline-making unique concerts, the tour will feature the iconic star and his band returning to Pittsburgh for the first time in more than 20 years. Every one should ready for the summer’s biggest week of classic rock.

You might think you are all prepped for the huge Paul McCartney has just turned 68, concert on Saturday at AT&T Park and Neil Young’s (age 64) three-night stand (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) at Oakland’s Fox Theater . For the first time the Former Beatle and Wings frontman Paul McCartney will perform in Utah on Tuesday, July 13. Paul McCartney, 68-year-old native of Liverpool is the most famous songwriter in the history of popular music. According to Guinness World Records, he wrote or co-wrote 188 charted records of which 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No. 1.Almost everyone has a favorite McCartney song, written either when he was a member of the Fab Four or during his prolific career as a solo artist and with Wings. Kevin Spacey performed a duet with Sir Paul McCartney at a one-off gig earlier this week.

The legendary icon McCartney said “It was a great pleasure to come and rock out for the Old Vicers! When Kevin strong-armed me into doing it, as he does, we were only too pleased to show up and step up to the plate.” Paul McCartney closed the 2010 Isle Of Wight Festival tonight on June 13, headlining the Main Stage. Taking to the stage after a pre-recorded video introduction from comedian James Corden, he kicked things off with a medley of Wings’ ‘Venus And Mars’ and ‘Rock Show’ before diving straight into ‘Jet’. Say Say Say”, Michael Jackson’s 1983 duet with Paul McCartney, has emerged as the legendary late King of Pop’s most popular song in the U.S. following an in-depth study of the pop superstar’s chart statistics. Say Say Say” appears in Paul McCartney’s fifth solo album “Pipes of Peace”. Produced by George Martin, the single peaked at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100.The rocking McCartney has added latest tour dates during the month, including second appearances in Toronto and Pittsburgh. The tour begins July 10 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Get your Carole Paul McCartney Tickets

The Consol Energy Center is Getting Prepared to Open With a Paul McCartney Concert

January 7th, 2011

This second season of “Glee” is going to feature one of the most admired singing sensations to appear from Britain and the music of Paul McCartney, too. Fast-rising alternative band MGMT is looking to put together association with Paul McCartney. In a new interview with AOL’s music blog Spinner.com, band member Andrew Van Wyngarden said they are motivated by more than just Sir Paul’s iconic status. “We like Paul McCartney’s songwriting abilities and musical feeling. His bass playing is unreal, he is absolutely our favorite bass player,” he said. “We did play a show with him last summer at NY Park, which was really cool. But nothing has really come of the collaboration part of it. We still would really like to do that. It is usually Mission Impossible for anyone trying to get close to Sir Paul McCartney. But when you are Tom Cruise’s wife then there is always room for you. Katie Holmes was like a star struck kid when she got a one-on-one with the star backstage at his gig in Toronto. After introducing him to her daughter Suri, the actress begged Macca for an autograph.

A source said “Katie said she was a big fan and Tom was really frustrated at missing out. She is a vegan and backs a lot of the same campaigns as Sir Paul. Little Suri didn’t really understand who he was though.” When she grows up and finds out, she’ll be Suri. The Consol Energy Center is getting prepared to open with a Paul McCartney concert, fans have a chance to win tickets. It’s called the “Jump The Line” contest. The grand prize winner and a guest will be the first fans to go into the arena before McCartney’s show on Aug. 18. He may have now turned 68, but Paul McCartney performed like a man one-quarter of his age before an admiring crowd at a packed Air Canada Centre last night. For the first of two concerts he returns to the ACC tonight the living legend’s stamina was extremely astonishing. He seemed to turn back the hands of time during a nearly three-hour marathon that featured 36 songs and nary a sip of water between them.

McCartney generously acknowledged his two former Beatle mates who have shaken this mortal coil, strumming a ukulele version of “Something” that he said he played for George Harrison and tacking a coda of “Give Peace A Chance” onto “A Day In The Life. Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney was turned away by security guards at the White House when he arrived to show a performance for U.S. President Barack Obama last month. McCartney, 68, had arrived at the iconic building in Washington, D.C. ahead of his scheduled performance for the president, but he and his band were not allowed through the strict security checks. Guards on the gate finally sent McCartney to a different entrance, but the delay left the musician fearing he would miss the gig. well-known Beatles expert and Allentown native Denny Somach says the Fab Four are the only truly multi-generational artists since Mozart For the past 45 years, teens keep rediscovering what was exceptional about their music, making it admired all over again.

If you don’t believe it, think that The Beatles have had platinum albums in each of the past five decades (their box set last year sold 3 million) and bassist/singer Paul McCartney in the past four. His latest disc, 2009′s live “Good Evening New York,” went gold. Now the legendary icon McCartney, 68, is scheduled to have his music featured on the hit Fox-TV show “Glee,” pretty much guaranteeing a hit disc in the 2010s. Get your Cheap Paul McCartney Tickets