McCartney Times

It was November 2008 and Girls Aloud was riding high in the charts with The Promise, P!nk had just released So What and Alexandra Burke was on the cusp of winning X Factor.

There was a sense of real change in the air after the United States had just voted in their first-ever black president Barack Obama.

Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, a simpler time when Boris Johnson was busy declaring ‘whiff-whaff’ was “coming home” as Mayor London.

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Mama Mia! and The Dark Knight – Joker actor Heath Ledger had died earlier that year – were top of the box office and artists like Katy Perry and The Kings of Leon were on the radio 24/7.

And Liverpool took centre stage for the MTV European Music Awards which saw pop royalty descend on the city as the ECHO Arena – now the M&S Bank Arena – provided the backdrop for the star-studded event.

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Source: Paul McCartney drove Bono to the MTV music awards in Liverpool – Liverpool Echo