Posted on 05/24/2010 8:16:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sir Paul McCartney to be honoured by Barack Obama at White House Sir Paul McCartney is to perform at the White House as he receives an award from President Barack Obama.
24 May 2010
Sir Paul McCartney performs during a stop on his Up and Coming Tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles Photo: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello The ex-Beatle will appear next week, with the show being broadcast in the US over the summer.
The president and first lady are hosting the show in the East Room on June 2 for an event at which Sir Paul will receive the third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.
Sir Paul hinted at the appearance when he took part in a live webcast last week in which he mentioned the White House. He told fans: ''If there is an announcement, remember where you heard it first.''
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
No it is shades of when the Beatles were invited/ordered/requested to play for Ferdinand Marcos in the 1960s.
“Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my Marxist!”
Which is the better way to torture Al Qaeada prisoners? With Yoko’s music or Paul McCartney’s music?
Paul McCartney...what sappy music. The women like his inane drek.
A free concert for Obama and his friends! Wonder if North Korea will have declared war by then? Will he still party on if US troops on the 38th parallel are being shot upon?
Hi Roscoe!
Any way you might be able to post in one of the Oil Spill Threads a photoshopped photo of the Titanic and/or its Captain & Crew at the bottom of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig plume?
Always looking forward to your works of art, Sir....
Silvie
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