McCartney is scheduled in The Guinness Book Of Records as the most victorious musician and composer in famous music history, with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold discs. McCartney has got twenty-nine number-one singles in the US, twenty of them with The Beatles, the rest with Wings and as a solo artist. McCartney has been concerned in more number-one singles in the United Kingdom than any other artist under a selection of credits, although Elvis Presley has got more as a solo artist. McCartney has got 24 number-ones in the UK: solo (1), Wings (1), with Stevie Wonder (1), Ferry Aid (1), Band Aid (1), Band Aid 20 (1) and The Beatles (17).[225] McCartney is the only performer to reach the UK number one as a soloist ("Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", The Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", The Beatles with Billy Preston) and as part of a musical ensemble for charity (Ferry Aid).[226] McCartney's song "Yesterday" is the most enclosed song in history with more than 3,500 recorded versions and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American TV and radio, for which McCartney was given an award. After its 1977 release the Wings single "Mull of Kintyre" became the highest-selling record in British chart history, and remained so until 1984.
The minor planet 4148, discovered in 1983, was named 'McCartney' in his honour.
In the run up his concert in St Petersburg in 2004, McCartney hired 3 jets, at a reported cost of £28,000, to spray dry ice in the clouds above St Petersburg Palace Square in an attempt to prevent rain.
On 18 June 2006, McCartney celebrated his 64th birthday, the human milestone that was the subject of one of the first songs he ever wrote, at the age of sixteen, the Beatles song "When I'm Sixty-Four." Paul Vallely noted in The Independent:
“ "Paul McCartney’s 64th birthday is not just a personal event. It is a cultural milestone for a generation. Such is the nature of celebrity; McCartney is one of those people who has represented the hopes and aspirations of those born in the baby-boom era, which had its awakening in the Sixties."
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