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