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Paul McCartney's awards include eight BRIT Awards, eighteen Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award, one MTV Europe Music Award, one Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, one Classical Brit Awards and two UK's Q Awards. As a member of The Beatles, his songwriting partnership with John Lennon produced "some of the most popular music in rock and roll history".[1]
In the United Kingdom, McCartney has been knighted[2][3] and was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).[4][5] In 2017, he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) for services to music.[6]
In the United States, McCartney received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and Kennedy Center Honors in 2010.
In May 2011 in Peru, he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun, La Orden del Arbol de la Quina for his environmental protection work, and the Medal of Honor from the National Library of Peru.[7][8]
On 8 September 2012 in France, McCartney was awarded the Legion of Honour for services to music by French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace.[9]
- ^ "The Lennon-McCartney Songwriting Partnership". h2g2. BBC. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 14 December 2006.
- ^ "No. 54625". The London Gazette. 30 December 1996. p. 2.
- ^ "No. 55229". The London Gazette. 18 August 1998. p. 8993.
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- ^ "McCartney recibirá condecoración de BNP en privado dos horas antes de show". El Comercio Peru. 9 May 2011.
- ^ The Associated Press (8 September 2012). "Paul McCartney awarded French Legion of Honor". CBS News. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
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