 # 37
Singles Artist of the Year
  Paul McCartney & Wings won a
Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental
Performance for "Rockestra Theme"
from the LP Back
To The Egg.
McCartney hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "Coming Up" from the LP McCartney
II.
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McCartney
topped the UK LP chart for 2 weeks with McCartney
II.
 McCartney hit #1 for 4 weeks with "Coming Up."
 # 13
Singles Artist of the Year
McCartney hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with Stevie Wonder with
"Ebony & Ivory" from the LP Tug
Of War. ( )
 McCartney hit #1 for 7 weeks with Stevie Wonder with
"Ebony & Ivory."
McCartney hit the Top 40 with
"Take It Away" from the LP Tug
Of War.
 McCartney hit the Top 10 with "Take It Away."
McCartney teamed up with Michael Jackson and
hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with"The Girl Is Mine" from Jackson's Thriller.
 # 53
Singles Artist of the Year
 McCartney was nominated for 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Single ("Ebony & Ivory").
McCartney teamed up with Michael Jackson and
hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with"Say Say Say" from McCartney's
LP Pipes
Of Peace. ( )
 McCartney hit #1 for 3 weeks with Michael Jackson with "Say Say Say."
 # 24
Singles Artist of the Year
McCartney hit the Top 40 with
"So Bad" from the LP Pipes
Of Peace.
 # 49
Singles Artist of the Year
 McCartney was honored with the Award of Merit at the American Music
Awards.
 Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes "Maybe
I'm Amazed."
Flaming
Pie topped the UK Album charts for
a week.
 McCartney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (Flaming
Pie).
On April 17th, Paul McCartney's
wife and member of Wings,
Linda McCartney, died Friday of breast cancer
at the age of 56. Reports originally stated
that Linda McCartney had passed away while on
vacation with her family in Santa Barbara,
California - later reports confirmed she had
died in Arizona and was cremated with a
private ceremony. Linda was diagnosed with
breast cancer in 1995 and was undergoing
treatment. By March of this year, the cancer
had spread to the liver. A statement released
after Linda's death said: "The blessing
was that the end came quickly and she didn't
suffer." The statement also said the
best donation in Linda's memory would be to
get involved with charities related to cancer
research or animal welfare, "or... best
of all... go veggie." Linda McCartney
was a strong vegetarian diet and animal
rights advocate. Paul and Linda had been
married since 1969 and have 3 children
together (and one additional child from
Linda's previous marriage).
Ranked # 62 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 57 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 McCartney talked with CNN about
his wife's death, and knowing that she didn't
have long to live, but not wanting to tell
her: "I knew a week or so before she
died... I was the only 1 who knew... I didn't
want to tell her because I didn't think she'd
want to know." McCartney later told a
British newspaper: "I might not be able
to get up on stage again... I don't know
whether I can go up there and sing, thinking
about Linda."
The final list of inductees this
year to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame were
announced and included Paul McCartney (who is
already in the Hall with the Beatles).
 McCartney released Liverpool
Sound Collage.
Rolling Stone
& MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs includes "Maybe
I'm Amazed" at # 52.
McCartney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music
Album
(Liverpool
Sound Collage).
 McCartney released a
retrospective of Wings with Wingspan
(Hits & History). The LP topped the
Billboard Internet Sales chart for a week.
Wingspan
(Hits & History) was certified 2x
platinum.
All
The Best was certified 2x
platinum.
 Two tributes of McCartney's
music - Listen
To What The Man Said: Popular Artists Pay
Tribute To The Music Of Paul McCartney and Coming
Up: Independent Artists Pay Tribute To The
Music - were released.
McCartney performed at The
Concert For New York City benefit concert in New
York City (later released as an LP) with
proceeds going to 9/11 chartities.
 McCartney released Driving
Rain.
McCartney was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for the title track of Vanilla
Sky.
McCartney was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Original Song for the
title track of Vanilla
Sky.
Driving
Rain was certified gold.
McCartney performed as part of
Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee concert at
Buckingham Palace. McCartney married
model/activist Heather Mills.
 McCartney released the live LP Back
In The US - Live 2002.
McCartney topped the Billboard
Top Internet Album Sales chart with Back
In The US - Live 2002.
McCartney found controversy and
a disagreement with Yoko Ono
when he decided to reverse long-standing
writing credits on many Beatles songs from
'Lennon-McCartney' to 'McCartney-Lennon' on Back
In The US - Live 2002.
McCartney's tour became the
top-grossing tour of the year taking in over
$126 million.
Back
In The US - Live 2002 was certified 2x
platinum.
McCartney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written
for a Motion Picture, Television or Other
Visual Media ("Vanilla Sky").
# 105 on the Top Pop Artists
of the Past 25 Years chart.
 McCartney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with
Vocals
("Something" with Eric
Clapton).
On July 2nd, McCartney performed
in London, England, as part of the worldwide Live
8 concerts. The mission of the
concerts was to raise awareness of the
on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure
the G8 leaders to take action by doubling
aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade
justice for Africa.
 McCartney performed on ReAct
Now: Music & Relief - a benefit
program shown on music video channels to
raise money for those affected by Hurricane
Katrina.
McCartney released Chaos
And Creation In The Back Yard (Rolling Stone:  - Billboard peak: # 6).
McCartney appeared on the cover
of Rolling Stone.
Chaos
And Creation In The Back Yard was certified gold.
 McCartney was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album (Chaos
And Creation In The Back Yard), and Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Fine Line"). McCartney also
performed for the first time solo at a Grammy
ceremony.
McCartney could be heard on Tony Bennett's LP Duets:
American Classic on the track "The
Very Thought Of You."
 McCartney was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Jenny Wren").
McCartney
released Memory
Almost Full (Billboard peak: # 3 - Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly:
A-).
McCartney
topped the Billboard Top Internet Albums
chart with Memory
Almost Full.
 McCartney
released the box set The
McCartney Years.
McCartney was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Dance Tonight"), Best Pop Vocal Album (Memory
Almost Full), and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("Only Mama
Knows").
McCartney was honored with the
Lifetime Achivement Award at the Brit Awards.
Memory
Almost Full was certified gold.
Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes McCartney at
# 11.
McCartney
released the EP Amoeba's
Secret (Billboard peak: # 119).
 McCartney was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("That Was Me") and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance ("I Saw Her
Standing There"). McCartney performed at
the ceremony.
McCartney released the 2CD/1DVD Good
Evening New York City (Billboard peak: # 16 - Rolling Stone:  - Entertainment
Weekly:
B+).
McCartney was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for
"I Want To Come Home" from the film
Everybody's Fine.
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