Paul McCartney Performs at Grammys Feb. 8, 2009

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Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney together after a performance at the 2008 Liverpool Capital
of Culture at Liverpool Anfield Stadium on Sunday, June 1, 2008. Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl
will be Sir Paul McCartney's guest drummer at the 2009 51st Annual Grammy Awards
broadcast on Sunday, February 8, 2009.


RADIOHEAD, PAUL McCARTNEY, KAYNE WEST SET TO PERFORM AT GRAMMYS



Rock and Roll Daily
Your NonStop Music Source


1/26/09, 9:06 am EST


Radiohead, Paul McCartney, Justin Timberlake, T.I., Kanye West and Jay-Z will all perform at this year’s Grammys ceremony, the awards show revealed this morning. The biggest coup is the addition of Radiohead, who have never played the event despite Best Alternative Album wins for OK Computer and Kid A. The band is nominated for five awards this year, including Best Album for In Rainbows. The performance will be the band’s first live U.S. television performance since 2000.





McCartney’s Grammys performance is a bit of a surprise, considering the former Beatle was only nominated in a pair of smaller categories. We’re not complaining though, as the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl will join Macca onstage as his special guest drummer.

The conglomerate of Jay-Z, Kanye West and T.I. will perform their M.I.A.-infused, Best Rap Song-nominated single Swagga Like Us. The trio is up for a combined 16 awards, with West and Jigga scoring six nods and T.I. grabbing four. Additionally, T.I. will perform with Justin Timberlake on an unspecified song, but we’re guessing it’s maybe the Tip/Timberlake collaboration If I that leaked in December. Timberlake scored a Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals nomination after helping out Madonna on 4 Minutes.

This star-studded slate of newly announced artists join an already stacked roster of performers at the 51st annual Grammy awards, including Coldplay, Jonas Brothers, Lil Wayne, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Katy Perry and Kenny Chesney. For much more on the Grammys, check out our Grammy Faceoff ‘09, where a panel of celebrity experts predict the winners in the ceremony’s biggest categories:


And the Winner Is… Grammy Faceoff ‘09
www.rollingstone.com/news/story/25569018/and_the_winner_is_grammy_faceoff_09

Grohl To Perform With Paul At Grammys'
www.paulmccartney.com/news.php#1531/2009-01

www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/26/radiohead-paul-mccartney-kanye-west-set-to-perform-at-grammys/

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GRAMMY NODS FOR PAUL AND RINGO



Posted on December 11, 2008
in News by The Fest



The Grammy Nominees were announced last week, and Paul McCartney was nominated in two categories - Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for a Live version of That Was Me, and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for a Live version of I Saw Her Standing There. Both of these tracks were from Amoeba’s Secret, a 4 track vinyl only disc, from earlier in the year. Ringo Starr was nominated in the Best Surround Sound Album for is Ringo 5.1: The Surround Sound Collection. The Grammys will be held on February 8, 2009, on CBS. Good luck to both of them.




Paul McCartney sings "That Was Me." This live performance is from his
concert at the Olympia in Paris, France on October 22, 2007. (3:11 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4WcHxIawmk




Paul McCartney sings "I Saw Her Standing There"
live at the Cavern Club. (2:59 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlqPVeuPx5I




Ringo 5.1 The Surround Sound Collection (Deluxe Edition).
This is a DVD-Audio disc released on March 4, 2008.
www.amazon.com/Ringo-5-1-Starr/dp/B0012OVFSO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1233525323&sr=8-1


www.thefest.com/news/index.php/2008/12/11/grammy-nods-for-paul-and-ringo/

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PAUL McCARTNEY AND DAVE GROHL: A BROMANCE IS BORN BEFORE THE GRAMMYS



rock and roll daily
Shirley Halperin


2/8/09, 1:08 pm EST



There are plenty of jaw-dropping collaborations to look forward to on tonight’s Grammy Awards — Coldplay with Jay Z, Jonas Brothers with Stevie Wonder, Radiohead with the USC Marching Band, the all-star swagga of M.I.A., Kanye West, Lil Wayne and T.I. — but perhaps most anticipated is the pairing of Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney.

Grohl will be back at the drum set for the Beatles’ I Saw Her Standing There, but at Friday night’s MusiCares Person of Year gala honoring Neil Diamond, the Foo Fighters frontman played it cool, recounting a phone conversation he had with McCartney earlier in the week. “He tells me, ‘So we’ve got this rehearsal space for, like, three hours, but I like to play rock & roll for a couple hours just to get warmed up.’ I was like, ‘f**k, okay. Let’s do it, dude!”

But by Saturday’s Clive Davis party, which he and McCartney attended immediately following a final run-through at Staples Center, Grohl was giddy as a teenager. (Check out photos from the party — and Grammy rehearsals — in our pre-Grammy gallery.) www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/25964673/grammys_2009_foo_fighters_coldpl. That three-hour rehearsal in Burbank turned into one sick jam session, Grohl revealed, which kicked off with Back in the U.S.S.R., then made its way through I Saw Her Standing There, Honey Don’t, and Wings’ Let Me Roll It. Grohl had practiced Jet on his own, so that was also added to the playlist, to his delight. Grohl was even trying to convince McCartney to play a secret warm-up show at House of Blues later that night, which, sadly, did not materialize.

Still, the bromance continued at the Foos table during Saturday’s gala. Grohl and McCartney sat side by side for the dinner and show, and though they both had their significant others in hand, it was the two guys who chatted and giggled like girlfriends. To be fair, they do have a history going back a few years. Grohl first met McCartney in 2007 when the Foos recorded Wings’ Band On The Run at London’s Abbey Road studios and Macca simply popped by the session, according to bassist Nate Mendel. Then in June of last year, Grohl joined McCartney onstage at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, playing drums on I Saw Her Standing There and Back In The U.S.S.R. as well as handling guitar and backing vocals for Band On The Run. And lest we forget, Grohl also played all the drums on Beatles songs used in the 1993 movie Backbeat.

But with a resume that includes guest stints with everyone from Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page to Tom Petty to Motorhead’s Lenny Kilmister, not to mention gigs with Queens of the Stone Age and Tenacious D, has Grohl reached his hero worship peak? Once you’ve bagged a Beatle, who’s left?

The Grammys are mere hours away — stay tuned to Rolling Stone’s Grammy hub for all the latest reports and photos.




Paul McCartney performs "I Saw Standing There" at the 51st Annual
Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8, 2009. (3:17 minutes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0zsnFdUGRA



Listing of 2009 Grammy Award winners
www.popeater.com/music/article/grammy-awards-winners-list/333811

No Grammy, But Sir Paul Goes Backstage Anyway
blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2009/02/09/no-grammy-but-sir-paul-goes-backstage-anyway/

2009 Grammy Awards Photo Gallery
www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/25964673/grammys_2009_foo_fighters_coldpl

music.aol.com/grammys
www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/02/08/paul-mccartney-and-dave-grohl-a-bromance-is-born-before-the-grammys/

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Chris Martin, of Coldplay, accepts the award for best rock album at the 51st Annual
Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in Los Angeles. In background looking on
from left are: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)


COLDPLAY APOLOGIZE TO PAUL McCARTNEY FOR 'RECYCLING SGT. PEPPER OUTFITS'


At the Grammy Awards last night...


gigwise.com
by Scott Colothan


Monday, February 09, 2009



Coldplay drummer Will Champion apologised to Sir Paul McCartney at the Grammy Awards last night for parodying The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper outfits.


The band arrived at the ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in trademark military regalia, that was brightly coloured Sgt. Pepper-style for the occasion.





Accepting an award onstage, Champion joked: "Thank you, and sorry to Sir Paul McCartney for blatantly recycling the Sergeant Pepper outfits, sorry boss."





Paul McCartney was present at the industry bash and performed a rendition of The Beatles classic I Saw Her Standing There with Dave Grohl on drum duties.

Coldplay were one of the big winners on the night, scoring three awards in the Best Pop Performance, Song Of The Year and Best Rock Album categories.


The Grammy Awards Red Carpet
www.gigwise.com/photos/49233/The-51st-Grammy-Awards---Red-Carpet-Arrivals

The Grammy Awards Ceremony
www.gigwise.com/photos/49235/The-51st-Grammy-Awards-In-Pictures

www.gigwise.com/news/49240/Coldplay-Apologise-To-Paul-McCartney-For-Recycling-Sgt-Pepper-Outfits

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DAVE GROHL EARNS HIGH MARKS FROM PAUL McCARTNEY


therockradio.com


Thursday, February 12, 2009


Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has earned high marks from former Beatle Paul McCartney for his work behind the drums during McCartney's performance at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night (February 8th). Asked backstage how the collaboration came out, McCartney told reporters that it was based on past experience: "Dave originally played with us in Liverpool, where I did a concert last year, and he played alongside my drummer Abe (Laboriel), but Abe wasn't available for this -- he's in Japan with Mr. (Eric) Clapton. So we rang Dave up and said, 'Can you do it?' He said, 'Yeaaah!' So it was great."

Grohl played drums for McCartney during two songs at a show in Liverpool last June, as well as guitar and backing vocals on Band On The Run.

Although McCartney only performed I Saw Her Standing There on Sunday night, Grohl told RollingStone.com that they rehearsed that, Back In The U.S.S.R., Jet, and others.

Grohl tried to convince McCartney to play a secret warm-up show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on Saturday night (February 7th), but that never happened.

The pair first met in 2007, when Foo Fighters were recording a cover of Band On The Run at London's Abbey Road Studios and McCartney dropped by the session.

Grohl also got to play with two more of his heroes, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, at a Foo Fighters concert at London's Wembley Stadium last summer.


www.therockradio.com/2009/02/dave-grohl-earns-high-marks-from-paul.html