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Paul McCartney seems to be re-launching the British Invasion his band first spearheaded all those decades ago. It has just been announced that McCartney has been named the latest winner of the Library of Congress’s prestigious Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
The first non-American winner, McCartney is the third recipient of the award following Paul Simon (2007) and Stevie Wonder (2009).
“As a great admirer of the Gershwins’ songs, I am highly honored to be given the Gershwin Prize by such a great institution as the Library of Congress,” McCartney said of the award in a statement present on the LoC website.
The 67-year-old Beatle has been making headlines in recent months thanks to a string of historic concerts marking the end of Shea Stadium, the release of Beatles Rock Band video game (which hasn’t spawned a lawsuit, yet) and the re-release of the Beatles catalog, first on CD and now on a non-iTunes digital release: a $279 USB memory stick shaped like, what else, a big, green apple.
If you’ve any money in your pockets after all of that, McCartney is also unleashing a new CD/DVD this week, “Good Evening New York City.”
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