The biggest entertainment story of the past week was clearly that of Paul McCartney receiving the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize For Popular Song on Tuesday. At the White House the following night, President Barack Obama lauded Sir Paul for his great talent and, along with his fellow Beatles (you know their names, I needn't repeat them), changing popular music overnight. Obama also noted that Paul had written or co-written more than two hundred songs that had made the charts and stayed on them for a cumulative total of over 32 years, a statistic that astonished Macca himself.
Paul entertained the Obamas and their guests with a performance that included, obviously, "Michelle," as well as three other Beatles songs, "Eleanor Rigby," "Let It Be," and the crowd-pleasing "Hey Jude." Guests such as Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Elvis Costello, and Emmylou Harris joined him.
Paul McCartney is the first non-American to win the Gershwin Prize. That's not going to sit well with the Tea Party crowd. Forty years after the Fab Four broke up, Beatlemania has been replaced in the United States by xenophobia. :-O
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