Sir Paul McCartney grabs his first new album award

Sir Paul McCartney grabbed a Grammy for Kisses on the Bottom, which is his seventeenth, and 1st for an song album of new recorded tracks since Let It Be by The Beatles in the year 1971. Paul McCartney got his very 1st Grammy award for the album of new material after his days with Beatles at last night’s Grammy awards ceremony.

The British star picked up the Grammy for the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for album Kisses on the Bottom that was released previous year. Even though this new album mostly have covers of traditional pop tracks as well as jazz standards, this is still the very first album of newly recorded tracks to get McCartney an award since The Beatles got for Let It Be in 1971.

In the 42 years, Paul McCartney has got Grammy awards for single tracks, and for a reprint of Wings album Band on the Run.

Previous night’s Grammy win took the seventy year old singer’s number of Grammy awards win to seventeen, placing him in 9th on the overall winner’s list, along wilt Eric Clapton, Beyoncé and Ray Charles. Sir Georg Solti, the late Hungarian conductor,  keeps the record for the most number of Grammy award wins with thirty one – succeed by Quincy Jones and Alison Krauss. Both of them have won twenty seven Grammy awards.

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