- Awarded honourary diplomas to top 80s girl group The Bangles. (July 31, 2004)
- One of the most important collections of Beatles memorabilia and tapes marked ``Abbey Road -- not for release'' has been found by a British holidaymaker in a suitcase bought at a flea-market in Australia. Fans have been searching for the collection for 30 years. (July 14, 2004)
- The Beatles were officially banned by Soviet authorities, who declared their music a corrupting influence of the West.
- Crew on his concert tour in Norway are angry because he has banned the eating of meat. (June 17, 2004)
- His raucous practice sessions in the Millennium Dome, east London, for an upcoming tour drew complaints from people living on the other side of the River Thames. (May 14, 2004)
- Will open the White Nights concert festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 20, 2004 to to mark his birthday, June 18.
- Gave an impromptu performance at the same Sierra Nevada restaurant late Monday night where he entertained surprised diners last year. (April 1, 2004)
- Tops the list of rich celebrities in Britain, with his $1.3 billion fortune, which is bigger than the combined fortunes of Elton John, Mick Jagger and Madonna. (March 6, 2004)
- Is to release a new animated short film, Tropic Island Hum, 20 years after he first ventured into the cartoon world with his award-winning Rupert and the Frog Song. (March 3, 2004)
- Will be the headline act at his year's Glastonbury festival, the finale to his summer tour. (February 28, 2004)
- His wife, Heather Mills McCartney, needs major surgery to repair damage sustained after she gave birth to the couple's child last fall. (January 26, 2004)
- Teamed up with Hollywood's Miramax studios to release three animated stories - Tropical Island Hum, Tuesday and Rupert and the Frog Song - that he produced. (December 4, 2003)
- Has written and recorded a song to promote Nelson Mandela's AIDS Awareness campaign. (November 18, 2003)
- Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined family and friends of George Harrison for the British premiere of a filmed tribute concert at a London theater Wednesday for their old bandmate, who died of cancer nearly two years ago -- The documentary film, CONCERT FOR GEORGE was performed last year at Royal Albert Hall. (October 9, 2003)
- Several pieces Beatles' memorabilia fetched thousands of dollars on Wednesdayat Christie's biannual pop memorabilia auction. (October 2, 2003)
- The Beatles management company said on Friday it is seeking a court injunction against Apple Computer Inc., insisting the computer maker's iTunes online music store breaches the band's trademark. (September 15, 2003)
- McCartney has joined an animal rights campaign against fast food chain KFC, urging the company to ensure better treatment for chickens in a U.S. newspaper advertisement on Thursday. (July 25, 2003)
- McCartney fired a salvo for chicken rights, accusing fast food giant KFC of condoning cruelty to the birds that end up as take-away meals -- The vegetarian former Beatle published an open letter to the president of the company that the jovial Colonel Sanders made famous, calling on KFC to heed animal rights activists' appeals for it to reduce cruelty to the birds. (July 24, 2003)
- An exhibition celebrating the solo career of McCartney after the break-up of the Beatles opened in Liverpool on Saturday, organized by students from his former school -- The Solo Years -- Paul McCartney will be held at the Beatles Story museum in response to fans' demands. (July 24, 2003)
- Was one of the most powerful celebrity according to 2003 Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List (#6)
- McCartney has been turned down by Britain's largest and most famous annual music festival, Glastonbury -- Organizer Michael Eavis said that the legendary former Beatle offered to headline the event, but the alternative rock band Radiohead was already in place for the top spot. (June 18, 2003)
- McCartney returned to his northern hometown Liverpool for a concert on Sunday night which marked the end of a world tour which also took him to Moscow for the first time. (June 2, 2003)
- McCartney has become the first Beatle to sing inside the Kremlin walls, treating President Vladimir Putin to an impromptu version of Let it Be before singing to thousands of Russians on Red Square -- Putin, who confessed to being a Beatles fan in his youth, told McCartney Saturday the band had been an inspiration during Soviet times, despite Kremlin efforts to discourage Western music. (May 27, 2003)
- McCartney's dream to perform in Red Square came true Saturday with the former Beatle capping off a sold-out concert with a rousing rendition of Back in the U.S.S.R. -- It was a dream come true for fans, too, who turned out nearly 20,000 strong for the concert near Lenin's mausoleum and Stalin's grave. (May 26, 2003)
- McCartney will provide the plane fare home for Toto, a chimpanzee smuggled from Africa 23 years ago and forced to perform in a Chilean circus -- He is donating 8,000 dollars through Animal Defenders to finance the trip. (May 21, 2003)
- Two Beatles fans have returned a diary they stole from McCartney's London home 23 years ago - Two Italian sisters who grabbed the book during a trip to London in 1980 showed up Monday at a hotel in Rome where McCartney was staying; they gave the book to an assistant, then waited an hour before the musician came out to meet with them. (May 14, 2003)
- Taking the floor where gladiators once battled wild beasts and fought to the death, McCartney brought rock 'n' roll to Rome's Colosseum for the first time on Saturday night. (May 12, 2003)
- 30,000 tickets for McCartney's June 1 homecoming show in Liverpool sold out in just four hours last week, but word surfaced that 5,000 tickets set aside for the Liverpool Town Council, which were supposed to be made available to the general public, were offered to the Council's 19,500 employees a day before the show went on sale -- Members of Great Britain's Labour Party are demanding an investigation into the matter. (May 7, 2003)
- McCartney thinks his one-time close friend Michael Jackson is an unusual guy and wonders about his parenting skills -- During a recent interview with a British network, McCartney said his philosophy about raising children was the opposite of the private, sheltered life of Jackson's two children. (April 28, 2003)
- McCartney has no plans to quit even when he's 64 and said on Sunday he'll keep singing in small-town taverns if that's the only place anyone will have him once his concert-playing days are over. (April 21, 2003)
- McCartney says he was inspired by his young four-piece band to breathe new life into old Beatles classics for his European tour -- The singer's first European tour in a decade includes at least 15 Beatles songs such as Lady Madonna, All My Loving and I Saw Her Standing There. (April 5, 2003)
- Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, and David Bowie are among the artists who have contributed tracks to Peace Songs, due April 15 -- Proceeds from the collection will benefit War Child Canada. (April 1, 2003)
- McCartney, one year into a world tour stretching from the United States to Japan, has been told to keep the volume down when he gets to Rome in May for fear of disturbing the aging Pope -- McCartney's spokesman Geoff Baker said that out of deference for the 82-year-old Pope, the tour organizers were considering both turning down the volume and removing some of the louder rock n' roll songs from the Beatle-loaded repertoire. (April 1, 2003)
- McCartney Was Rock's Richest in 2002-Rolling Stone - He raked in $72 million in 2002 largely from his first tour in nine years, according to the U.S. magazine's second annual Rock's 50 Richest list, to be published on March 14. (March 13, 2003)
- McCartney's wife is totally wiped out by the negative press she has received since the start of their relationship -- Heather Mills, a charity fundraiser and former model who lost her left leg below the knee in a motorcycle accident in 1993 said, It's all just 'She's the bird of Paul McCartney' and it's just knock, knock, knock. He is a fantastic, fantastic man, but the stuff that comes with it is very hard to deal with.
- Beatles recordings The White Album believed to be stolen from the band's London studios more than 30 years ago were recovered by police on Friday (February 14) in Sydney, Australia. (February 19, 2003)
- McCartney's 2002 tour in support of his Driving Rain album was the top rock-and-roll road show of the year, according to Pollstar -- the January 13 issue of the trade magazine reports that McCartney's tour grossed $103.3 million, besting the second-place Rolling Stones' Licks tour, which scooped up an estimated $87.9 million (January 8, 2003)
- Classic acts such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Cher lured more people to concerts in 2002 and helped the industry make a record $2.1 billion in ticket sales -- this was the fourth straight year concert receipts reached record levels in America, according to trade publication Pollstar, which tracks the concert industry. (January 4, 2003)
- McCartney rejected suggestions that the widow of his late partner John Lennon might have a court case because he reversed the credits on Beatles songs on his latest album from the traditional Lennon-McCartney to by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. (December 19, 2002)
- McCartney says he believes the bad press his wife, Heather Mills, has been getting will pass once his fans get used to the couple being married -- Mills has denied reports in British tabloids that McCartney forced her to sign a prenuptial agreement before their wedding this year. (November 19, 2002)
- McCartney said on Sunday he would postpone the final and biggest concert of his current world tour in Melbourne, Australia, out of respect for the victims of the Bali bomb blasts. (October 28, 2002)
- In a major blow to the organizers of the prestigious annual Kennedy Center Honors, McCartney has pulled out of December's event so that he can attend his niece's wedding - he will instead receive his honor at next year's black-tie ceremony. (August 2002)
- He was among six artists named on Tuesday, July 30th, as winners of the 25th annual Kennedy Center Honors award in recognition of their contributions to the nation's cultural life.
- Kennedy Center Chairman James Johnson called McCartney one of the most prolific and influential songwriters of our era
- He did the theme tune in THE ZOO GANG (1975)
- He reportedly named the song Eleanor Rigby after the actress Eleanor Bron (HELP! (1965)).
- The romantic theme song heard under the credits, Did We Meet Somewhere Before? is sung by 'McCartney, Paul' and Wings. McCartney wrote it as the theme to Heaven Can Wait (1978), but 'Beatty, Warren' decided not to use it. Allan Arkush, the Ramones' manager, then swung a deal whereby he was able to use the song for only $500 provided McCartney did not receive screen credit (ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979)).
- Two Paul McCartney instrumentals are used in JERRY MAGUIRE, Momma Miss America (during the airport montage) and Singalong Junk (during Jerry and Dorothy's first kissing scene on the porch), both from the 1970 album McCartney. Crowe received McCartney's permission without ever having met him, instead sending a tape of the film to the latter's office. The two would actually meet for the first time five years later in L.A., and the result of that meeting was McCartney composing the title song to Crowe's movie VANILLA SKY, which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
- Financially helps down and out pop singers that he reads about in need.
- John Lennon was so impressed when he first met Paul because he could play 20 flight rock, and couldn't read a lick of music, and so was invited to join John's band who soon became the Beatles.
- New wife of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, said someone urinated on her head during a period of homelessness while she was living rough on the streets of London.
- Nominated for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media at Grammy Awards for VANILLA SKY (2003)
- Nominated for Best Original Song - Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for VANILLA SKY (2002)
- Nominated for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program at Emmy Awards for Standing Stone (1998)
- Nominated for Best Original Song - Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET (1985)
- Nominated for Best Original Song at BAFTA Awards for GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET (1984)
- Nominated for Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture at Grammy Awards for LIVE AND LET DIE (1974)
- Nominated for Best Music, Original Song at Academy Awards for LIVE AND LET DIE (1974)
- Nominated for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show at Grammy Awards for YELLOW SUBMARINE (1970)
- Nominated for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show at Grammy Awards for HELP! (1966)
- Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles at BAFTA Awards for A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1965)
- Nominated for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show at Grammy Awards for A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (1965)
Quotes- "I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind."
- I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
- I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
- "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."
- "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
- "It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard Heartbreak Hotel I thought, this is it."
- "Think globally, act locally."
- "We didn't all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls."
- Pointing out that anything Beatle-related would be an instant hit: "Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
Awards- Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Song, VANILLA SKY (2002)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, Providence (2000)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, Providence (1999)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, Grace Under Fire (1996)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, Grace Under Fire (1995)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, Grace Under Fire (1994)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, The Wonder Years (1990)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, The Wonder Years (1989)
- BMI Film & TV Awards: BMI TV Music Award, The Wonder Years (1988)
- Academy Awards: Best Music, Original Song Score, LET IT BE (1971)
- Grammy Awards: Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special, LET IT BE (1971)
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