Paul McCartney has won the 2011 Grammy Award Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance Sunday night, his first solo Grammy win since 1979.
McCartney was nominated this year for "Helter Skelter" from "Good Evening New York City." The competition in the category was from Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Robert Plant and Neil Young.
His last win was for Best Instrumental Recording in 1979 for Wings' "Rockestra Theme." He was nominated twice but came up empty in 2008 for two tracks from the "Amoeba's Secret" CD. The first for this same Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance category was for "I Saw Her Standing There." It lost to John Mayer 's "Gravity." McCartney was also nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "That Was Me," but again lost to another John Mayer track, "Say."
Earlier in the evening, the Beatles also won a Grammy.
- You can find the most complete history of the Beatles' Grammy Awards on the internet at http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/grammy.htm
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Rock N Roll LIVES!!!!
This years highlights: Mick Jagger,Arcade Fire,
blew Gaga,Katy Perry and Eminem off the stage.Album of the year ARCADE FIRE,
Grammys for Beatles and Macca
Rock N Roll Lives!!!!!
oh yes the beates, stones and bob dylan still living on i'd like to see how well thoses other talentless people are doing when all there famous for there 'good looks' are gone! ha they suck
I love the music from the 60s, such FABulous memories. Go Paul and The Beatles. I think I have everysong you have put out there for us Beatle fans. I am a fanatic Beatle fan and always will be. They make me proud to have lived in that time period when music rocked. It still does, the Grammy's say so!!!!!
Hey, don't forget The Avett Brothers, they were great at the Grammy Awards Show and they are a band that Beatles' fans can appreciate. They played right before Dylan and stayed out with him on his number.
John Lennon was taught on a banjo by his mother Julia and The Beatles started in skiffle so I think that is in part why the Avetts speak to me. The Avetts are also great screamers in their music like John and Paul were. A lot of very good singers can't scream in a song like John Lennon and Paul McCartney could and that is another trait I love of the Avetts, they let loose with good screams during an instrumental break in a song!
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