Liverpool legend Sir Paul McCartney knocked back by Guinness

by Karl Walderman. Published Thu 12 Mar 2009 10:35, Last updated: 2009-03-12

Sir Paul McCartney has set a new record for flogging concert tickets after selling out his upcoming Las Vegas gig in seven seconds.

But the super-fast feat has been knocked back by the Guinness Book of World Records who say there is no such category.

Sales for the gig on April 19, opened on Valentine's day this year but within seconds hundreds of thousands were told the gig had sold out.

The one off performance at the Hardrock Hotel and Casino will be in front of 4,000 lucky fans who snapped up tickets at a rate of 600 a second.

Reformed British boyband Take That hold the record for the fastest tour sell out having flogged more than 600,000 tickets for their Circus tour in four and a half hours.

But a spokeswoman for Guinness said there is currently no category for the rate of ticket sales for a single gig and the effort will not appear in this years book.