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.''
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How much will this party cost us?
Good to see Obama is so focused on the oil spill, border security, Afghanistan, and jobs.
Did anyone tell the Kenyan that Paul is British?
Pressers, State Dinners, diplomatic visits, foreign trips, commencement speeches. Everything.
I know, dream on////
Congrats to you Paul!
..while three American hikers are in their tenth month of confinement in Iran.
oooooooo faaaahhhhh that pic ruined my sandwich here
Why? There’s no reason for this other than to throw a celebrity party and get his mug in PEOPLE.
Here’s a game; Beatles or McCartney songs adapted for the occasion.
Michelle, Barbell
You are the Walrus
Waxman
Back in the USSA
I’ll have to think some more.
Global economic meltdown, war in the far east, a national/regional disaster that Katrina pales beside, and “What, Me Worry?” Obama wants to hear `Band On the Run.’
Another Beetles’ song for you:
Yellow Ceee-IN-Ceee...Yellow Ceee-IN-Ceee....
While my ocean floor gently seeps
All I have to say is that I never was a Beatles fan — too much either “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” or “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” George Harrison was my style.
He’s got a ticket to lie
What you’re screw_n
Devolver
Abyss Road
The Non-White Album
We all live in a greasy submarine, a greasy ....
Jeez...Lucy is out there..
Lucy in the Sky with Deficits
All through the day, I lost mine.....I lost mine, I lost mine...
he’s just a partying ape...still looking for his promised 72 virgins
Oba-me Oba-Ma Life goes on Blah
Baracky Raccoon (stepped in to the room, only to hide Gideon’s Bible)
Just once I'd like to see the budget posted for these wing-dings... I bet the love-fest for mexico's president costs more than a couple million $s.
In my mind Paul stayed after the party was over a little too long.
He was the melodic, harmonic mega-talent playing off of John’s edge, or likely John adding the twists to his structure with George running enough interference to keep them from imploding.
They were God-like, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.
LOL
Perfect!
I thought of John’s acerbic and somewhat depressive nature enough to balance Paul’s sacchyrin and Paul’s creativity enough to really flesh out John and everyone else’s basic ideas. Someone else pointed out once that many of the truly memorable elements of Beatles music had their origin in George. Oh, yeah, and there was this guy named Ringo.
Thanks (sarcasm)! Hag photos tend to give people nightmares!
HELP! (Me pay my taxes)
Drive My Car (While you still can)
Nowhere Man (aka Zero Man)
Being for the Benefit of Mr Obama
Fixing a Hole (just not in that burst oil pipe)
I Want To Hold You HandWallet
I'm Down (in the polls)
I'm a Loser (but that's not what MSNBC says of me)
While My Guitar Portfolio Gently Weeps
Maxwell's Silver Hammer (came down on tax payers' heads)
This is too easy.
ha! but you might have to fill in the younger FReepers...
The Beatles did much to help popularize drugs and the whole hippy culture. No wonder the devil wants to give them their due though “Obama”, they were a big help to him.
Oldest scam in the book when you want to get a big name celebrity to appear somewhere, give 'em an award or degree of some kind.
North Korea torpedoed a South Korean ship and nothing happens.
You say I’m a birther
Hill’s a truther too!
You say I’m a birther
We’re gonna have a high time...
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
Hollywierd Ping
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