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As many fans hoped, corporate travel planners a Paul and Ringo reunion happened on the Grammy stage tonight. After being introduced by Julia Roberts, McCartney sat down on a psychedelic-painted corporate travel planners piano with Starr on drums and the pair of onetime Beatles performed Queenie Eye from Macca s latest corporate travel planners album, New . The tempo was upbeat, McCartney commanded the vocals like a legend and in the crowd Yoko Ono danced along .
Earlier in the broadcast, Starr performed solo and played Photograph from his 1973 album, Ringo . Backed by a massive full band, he bounced around the stage while old black-and-white photographs showed on a big screen behind him.
Tonight s reunion is one of only a handful of times McCartney and Starr have performed together. On the red carpet earlier, Starr mentioned that the two had played together just last week. Before then, known performances include Starr s 70th birthday bash in 2010 and at a David Lynch benefit in New York City back in 2009 . Rumors have persisted since the Grammy performances were leaking out that they d reunite for a performance, but nothing was confirmed until tonight.
McCartney has won 16 Grammys: 10 with the Beatles (including Best New Artist in 1965 and this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, which he shares with Starr), four as a solo act and two with Wings. Earlier in the evening, he won the Grammy for Best Rock Song for "Cut Me Some Slack," his song with Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic.
The two will continue corporate travel planners celebrating the Beatles 50th anniversary of their U.S. debut when they tape The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles corporate travel planners , set to air on February corporate travel planners 9th on CBS. Rolling Stone recently profiled how their performance on the Ed Sullivan Show was a landmark moment in America s pop culture history.
Appearing on the Beatles valedictory Let It Be album, The Long and Winding Road can be taken as Paul McCartney s graceful wave goodbye or, perhaps, as a requiem for the death of the band: You left me standing here a long, long time ago. Recorded in the days following their final performance, on the Apple Records rooftop in 1969 -- Ringo Starr was on hiatus; John Lennon have given his notice -- the lyrical corporate travel planners acrimony became some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy when producer Phil Spector remixed it, adding strings and a choir, much to McCartney s dismay. It s a sad song because it s all about the unattainable, McCartney said. I was a bit flipped out and tripped out at the time. More Song Stories entries