Paul McCartney singing 'Michelle' to Michelle Obama

Paul McCartney singing ‘Michelle’ to Michelle ObamaPaul McCartney singing ‘Michelle’ to Michelle Obama

McCartney live performances of Michelle, Wikipedia:

He has rarely performed the song since, but did include it in a 2009 performance in Washington, DC, in honour of Michelle Obama, the American First Lady, and he would play it on most (if not all) of his performances in France or other francophone countries.

On 2 June 2010, after being awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House, McCartney performed the song for Michelle Obama, who sang along from her seat. McCartney quipped, I could be the first guy ever to be punched out by a president.” Michelle Obama reportedly later told others that she could never have imagined, growing up an African-American girl on the South Side of Chicago, that someday a Beatle would sing Michelle” to her as First Lady of the United States.

If this is not what is called The American Dream, what else could it be?

Watch the live performance here:


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music beatles

Date
2020-04-04

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