Paul McCartney, in his first-ever appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, performed on the marquee of the show's Ed Sullivan Theater and reminisced about The Beatles' appearance there, 45 years ago, and the beginning and end of his friendship with Michael Jackson.
McCartney delivered a vibrant version of "Get Back" and a new song, "Sing the Changes," to thousands of fans who filled Broadway to watch the legendary singer perform.
Watch McCartney's full performance — even songs that weren't aired
He told Letterman he was 22 when he and the rest of the Beatles performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1964, the start of rock's British Invasion. He also recalled performing "Yesterday" solo and saying no when a floor manager asked if he was nervous about performing it alone.
"You should be," McCartney recalled the manager saying. "There's 73 million people watching."
McCartney also went into detail about his first contact with Jackson, with whom he collaborated on the hits "Say Say Say," and "The Girl is Mine."
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Rumor has it that if you play "Revolution No. 9" backwards, it now says, "The deal is dead."
Negotiations on a long-awaited deal to make The Beatles' catalogue available online via services such as the iTunes Music Store have hit an impasse. "The last word I got back was it's stalled," Paul McCartney said Monday ...
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Heather Mills, having herself just emerged from a courtroom drama, will now be doing some judging of her own. According to Extra, the former Dancing with the Stars contender has been booked as a judge for the the Miss USA pageant, to be held April 11 in Las Vegas.This news comes on the heels of Mills' divorce settlement, in which her ex, Sir Paul McCartney, was ordered to pay her $48.7 million. At the close of the hearing, Mills approached McCartney's table, said, "I'm not a loser," and then dumped a jug of water on his lawyer's head.The case's judge, meanwhile, criticized Mills' performance during the trial. "The husband's evidence was... balanced," Judge Hugh Bennett said, per court documents. "I cannot say the same about the wife’s evidence." "Having watched and listened to her," Bennett continued, "I am driven to the conclusion that much of her evidence, both written and oral, was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid. Overall she was a less than im...
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Paul's wallet is dead.London's High Court on Monday ordered former Beatle Paul McCartney to pay his estranged wife Heather Mills 24.3 million pounds — that's $48.7 million to you and me — as their long-running and nasty divorce proceedings came to a close. "I am so glad it is over," the AP quotes Mills as saying after the ruling. "It was an incredible result in the end to secure mine and my daughter's future and that of all the charities that I obviously plan on helping and making a difference with. [That] has been my life for 20 years."Mills, who had represented herself in the courtroom, urged other divorcées-to-be to do the same thing. "You can be a litigating person," says the former Dancing with the Stars contender. "You'd save yourself a fortune." And, it would seem, collect a whole other one on top of that.
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Per People, the littlest of the singing Hanson sibs, Zac, and wife, Kate, are expecting their first child in May. His older bros, Isaac and Taylor, already have four kids between 'em. In related news, I will now look up anytime someone says, "Yo, Gramps!" Which is not necessarily so awful. Just this weekend, the British tabs caught "mature" soon-to-divorce Paul McCartney squiring Rosanna "I'm Not the One from Friends or the Transsexual" Arquette around a historic home in the U.K. — Ben Katner
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