Awards
Main article: List of awards received by Paul McCartney
In June 1965, McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr, were made Members of the Order of the British Empire.[379] In 1990, the IAU's Minor Planet Center named the planet 4148, "McCartney" in his honour.[380] In March 1997,Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for services to music.[381] In May 2000, the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors awarded him a Fellowship.[382] In 2008, he received a BRIT award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, as well as an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Yale University.[383] In 2010, President Barack Obama honoured McCartney with the Gershwin Prize for his contributions to popular music.[384] He returned to the White House later that year as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.[385] McCartney won two Grammy awards with Wings, and two as a solo artist.[386] In 2012, he became the last Beatle to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[387] On 8 September 2012, during a ceremony in Paris, French President François Hollande decorated McCartney with the Légion d'Honneur, with a rank of officer, for his services to music.[388]
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