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Beatle Paul McCartney plays White House, performs 'Michelle' for First Lady
Sir Paul McCartney was awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a star-studded ceremony Wednesday (June 2) held in the East Room of the White House.President Barack Obama and his family sat in the first row, surrounded by politicians and music stars like Jack White, Faith Hill, Herbie Hancock, Elvis Costello, Lang Lang, the Jonas Brothers and Dave Grohl.
Obama says McCartney "blew the walls down for everybody else" and "changed everything overnight" by appearing on "The Ed Sullivan Show." And he says McCartney and the Beatles "helped to lay the soundtrack for an entire generation."
When McCartney held up the award, he praises Obama. "Getting this prize would just be good enough, but getting it from THIS president ..." he says, to loud cheers.
He added that although there are "lots of really difficult issues" in the United States, "You have billions of us who are rooting for you and we know you're going to come through."
Then McCartney says he wanted to play a song he'd been "Itching to do at the White House," adding, "I hope the president will forgive me" when he performs a tender rendition of "Michelle."
Michelle blushed -- of course -- wearing a short blush-colored satin frock with cowl neck and a pink petticoat underneath designed by Byron Lars.
Even Malia Obama was having fun, especially when the Jonas Brothers performed "Baby, You Drive My Car."
During his "Hey Jude" finale (think "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye...") McCartney got the audience on their feet and the entire First Family on the stage. They clapped and everyone sang along as he sat at the piano and played..
Later in the night, after Obama had left the room, McCartney took the stage again and thanked the Library of Congress again for his award, adding, "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is," he added to way more than a few chuckles.
Let it be.
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Now that he's an "F.O.B." (friend of Barack) maybe Sir Paul can implore the President to open a probe into the U.S. government's targeting and harassment of John Lennon -- and persistent, nagging rumors that Mark David Chapman, the assassin of founding member of the Beatles, may have been entrained and financed by Lennon's political enemies. Until McCartney cares enough to make this request, some of his fans will continue to question his gravitas.
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Why now at a time when there should be focus on getting our country in order ...this so called president gets to enjoy vacations to hawaii, skips arlington cemetery and goes to chicago to have lunch with oprah, fails to assist b p petroleum in any efforts and says well we will sue them for money....come on people this man is the biggest idiot in the world....Obama do all of us a favor please resign for the sake our of country not yours you no good muslum
To Why: Grow up and check your history- where were you when Bush was on his many vacations. You sound like you're 12 yrs old.
Hey GetReal...I think its time you get real...This man in a short amount of time has created the largest deficit in history of the united states..he is cripling our free enterprise system... He is destroying our current insurance industry which is a large part of our investments in the united states...we dont even know for a fact that he was even born in the united states... so mr. or ms. GetReal....you sound like a very misinformed welfare of a type of liberal individual who is also probably here illegally...
THE BEATLE’s have Satanist Aleister Crowley on the cover of ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album, Why?
THE BEATLES’ PAUL McCARTNEY; McCartney said: "We didn't all get into music for a job! We got into it to avoid a job, in truth-and get lots of girls." In 1964 Paul McCartney stated, "We probably seem to be anti-religious none of us believes in God." Paul McCartney told Life magazine that he was "deeply committed to the possibilities of LSD as a universal cure-all."
He went on to say, "After I took it, it opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain (See Aldous Huxley). Just think
what all we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part. It would mean a whole new world. If politicians would
use LSD, there would be no more war, poverty or famine" (Life, June 6, 1967, p. 105).