Thousands of memorable pictures popularized their image. In their evolution from beginners to the leaders of entertainment, they learned from many world cultures, absorbed from various styles, and created their own. McCartney's own range of interests spanned from classical music and English folk ballads to Indian raga and other Oriental cultures, and later expanded into psychedelic experiments and classical-sounding compositions.
His creative search has been covering a range of styles from jazz and rock to symphonies and choral music, and to cosmopolitan cross-cultural and cross-genre compositions. Epstein's death hurt all four members of The Beatles , as they lost their creative manager. Evolution of each member's creativity and musicianship also led to individual career ambitions, however, their legacy as The Beatles remained the main driving force in their individual careers ever since.
McCartney and The Beatles made impact on human history, because their influence has been liberating for generations of nowhere men living in misery beyond the Iron Curtain.
Something in their songs and images appealed to everybody who wanted to become free as a bird. Their songs carrying powerful ideas of real love, peace, help, imagination and freedom evoked creativity and contributed to breaking chains and walls in the minds of millions. The Beatles expressed themselves in beautiful and liberating words of love, happiness, freedom, and revolution, and carried those messages to people across the universe.
Their songs and images helped many freedom-loving people to come together for revolutions in Prague and Warsaw, Beijing and Bucharest, Berlin and Moscow. The Beatles has been an inspiration for those who take the long and winding road to freedom. McCartney was 28 when he started his solo career, and formed his new band, Wings.
His first solo album, "McCartney," was a 1 hit and spawned the evergreen ballad "Maybe I'm Amazed", yet critical reaction was mixed. He continued to release music with Wings, that eventually became one of the most commercially successful groups of the 70s. The release "Mull of Kintyre" stayed at 1 in the UK for nine weeks, and was highest selling single in the UK for seven years.
In , McCartney released his solo album "Wonderful Christmastime" which remained popular ever since. In McCartney was arrested in Tokyo, Japan, for marijuana possession, and after a ten-day stint in jail, he was released to a media firestorm.
He retreated into seclusion after the arrest, and was comforted by his wife Linda. Yet he had another traumatic experience when his ex-band-mate, John Lennon , was shot dead by a crazed fan near his home in New York City on December 8, McCartney did not play any live concerts for some time because he was nervous that he would be "the next" to be murdered.
After almost a year of absence from the music scene, McCartney returned in with the album "Tug of War," which was well received by public and enjoyed great critical acclaim.
He continued a successful career as a solo artist, collaborated with wife Linda McCartney , and writers such as Elvis Costello. The song was re-arranged and re-mixed by George Martin at the Abbey Road Studios with the voices of three surviving members.
The Beatles Anthology TV documentary series was watched by million people in During the s McCartney concentrated on composing classical works for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, such as "The Liverpool Oratorio" involving a choir and symphony, and "A Leaf" solo-piano project, both released in That same year he was working on a new pop album, "Flaming Pie," when his wife Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer, and caring for his wife during her illness meant only sporadic public appearances during that time.
The album was released in to both critical and commercial success, debuting at 2 on both the UK and US pop charts. In April , Linda McCartney , his beloved wife of almost 30 years, mother of their four children, and his steady partner in music, died of breast cancer. McCartney suffered from a severe depression and undergone medical treatment. He spent much of the next year away from the public eye, emerging only to campaign on behalf of his late wife for animal rights and vegetarian causes.
He eventually returned to the studio, releasing an album of rock n'roll covers in McCartney also slowly returned to the public spotlight with the release of his another classical album, "Working Classical" in November , in recording by the London Symphony Orchestra. His release "A Garland for Linda" was a choral tribute album, which raised funds to aid cancer survivors.
In he was invited by Heather Mills , a disabled ex-model, to her 32nd birthday. McCartney wrote songs dedicated to her, he and Mills developed a romantic relationship and became engaged in However, the year brought him a cascade of traumatic experiences. On September 11, , Paul McCartney was sitting on a plane in New York when the World Trade Center tragedy occurred in front of his eyes, and he was able to witness the events from his seat.
Yet there was another sadness, as his former band-mate George Harrison died of cancer in November, Recouperating from the stressful year, McCartney received the Academy Award-nomination for the title song to the movie Vanilla Sky , and also went on his first concert tour in several years. Four years later, the high profile marriage ended in divorce, after a widely publicized litigation. In Paul McCartney received a birthday present from the Russian president. Petersburg, Russia. There he staged a spectacular show near the Tsar's Winter Palace in St.
Petersburg where the Communist Revolution took place, just imagine. In the Entertainment magazine poll named The Beatles the most iconic entertainers of the 20th Century. The prophetic message in the song has been intertwined with McCartney's personal life and his career. His classical album "Ecco Cor Meum" aka.. Behold My Heart , recorded with the Academy of St.
The couple married in , in London. He delivered a live performance of The Beatles 's timeless hit "Hey Jude" and engaged the crowd of people from all over the world to join his band in a sing along finale.
The show was seen by a live audience of close to people at the Olympic Park Stadium in addition to an estimated TV audience of two billion people worldwide. On the long and winding road of his life and career, Sir Paul McCartney has been a highly respected entertainer and internationally regarded public figure.
Sign In. Edit Paul McCartney. Showing all items. He would sing the lead vocal on songs by The Beatles that he primarily wrote. He still plays the Epiphone acoustic guitar which he used to compose "Yesterday".
Only songs in earlier albums are really joint efforts with John Lennon. The co-credit was because of a handshake deal the two had made in their teens.
His song "Yesterday" is one of the most popular songs of all time. Whilst he was looking for the right lyrics, he was temporarily using the line "Scrambled Eggs" until he came up with "Yesterday" in the final version of the song, as it is now known to the world. It became one of the most recorded songs of all time, with more than 3, known versions. He was awarded for classical compositions of choral and orchestral music.
He also wrote the song "Woman" for them, under the pseudonym of Bernard Webb. He was respected by The Beatles producer, George Martin , for his superior musicianship, musical inventiveness and multi-instrumental abilities. Martin said that McCartney was the one with enough attention span to sit at the piano, or in the studio as long as it takes to compose the best melody and harmony for their songs.
He plays piano for the song, "Let It Be". His later musical compositions have included classical works, such as the acclaimed 'Liverpool Oratorio' and 'Standing Stone'.
He is in the Guinness Book of World Records with 60 gold discs and sales of over million singles. He owns the double bass that once belonged to Elvis Presley 's bassist Bill Black. He plays the instrument on his solo sessions at his studio. According to McCartney, the name of the rock group Wings was inspired by daughter Stella McCartney 's birth, which was premature and traumatic; Stella and her mother both almost died.
As his daughter was being born by emergency cesarean section, Paul sat outside the operating room and prayed that she be born "on the wings of an angel.
He had wanted The Beatles to do a club tour shortly before they broke up. John Lennon disagreed, thinking that if they did tour again, it should have been in stadium-sized venues.
He is an animal-rights activist, vegetarian and anti-landmine activist. He created Paul and Linda McCartney charity foundation and several other charities. He has donated millions to humanitarian causes across the world and has been involved in charity recordings and concert performances. He owns the copyrights to Buddy Holly 's song catalogue and also numerous other compositions, including "Ramblin' Wreck From Georgia Tech".
He owns a Steinway concert piano model B made in Hamburg. He takes the piano along on his concert tours around the world. He claims his nights in a Japanese prison in were the only time he had been separated from then-wife Linda McCartney. He was arrested and jailed briefly in Japan in for carrying the same substance.
He won a last-minute court order preventing Christie's from auctioning his handwritten lyrics to the song "Hey Jude. He won prize for drawing of a church at age His daughter, Stella McCartney , was born on September 13, He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in as a solo artist.
His first guitar was a Zenith archtop f-hole acoustic. He got it at the Rushworth and Drapers Music Store in Liverpool when he was 14, as a gift from his father brother Mike McGear got a banjo at the same time, but broke his arm at Boy Scout camp a few weeks later. His song "When I'm 64" was written for his father Jim's 64th birthday.
It was never recorded by the Beatles, and was not one of the songs McCartney and Lennon lost in , when their publishing company Northern Songs was sold.
Paul has fond memories of relaxing on his bedroom floor while listening to his father play piano. Along with writing "Hey Jude" for Julian Lennon the summer his parents broke up, Paul also jokingly proposed to Cynthia Lennon , in the wake of his own breakup with Jane Asher.
Cynthia appreciated the laugh they both shared-- and the single red rose that Paul had brought. He was the only member of The Beatles to graduate from Britain's equivalent of high-school; he majored in Art. He is usually considered the most "conventional" of The Beatles , but McCartney has had his share of far-out ideas, including the germ of the TV-movie Magical Mystery Tour , and a "self-portrait" published as a s magazine cover, a psychedelic painting a la Pablo Picasso.
He set up John Lennon 's "home studio" for him at Kenwood, with its chain of tape decks; Lennon used this setup to make song demos for the Beatles, and later the infamous 'Two Virgins' album with Yoko Ono which Paul gave its cover quote. A lyric sheet to his song "Yesterday" is featured on the front cover of the Marillion album "Script for a Jester's Tear" released It is a common misconception, however that this was the first time he had done this. He made the same credit change on his live album "Wings Over America" to little or no public scrutiny, and to no public comment from John Lennon who was still alive at the time.
The three surviving members of The Beatles appeared on three separate episodes of The Simpsons He is a cousin of Kate Robbins and Ted Robbins. In , his song "Blackbird" was covered by Marillion for their live album "Unplugged at the Walls".
In , he produced but did not perform on "Thrillington", an instrumental version of the album "Ram" he recorded with his wife Linda. The songs were presented in orchestral versions, and Paul's work as producer and director was pseudonymously credited to "Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington".
The album was not well received by the critics, but is now a much sought-after collectable. He first used the pseudonym "Apollo C. He used the pseudonym because record contract obligations prevented him from using his real name on a rival record label.
The band repaid McCartney's efforts with a composition entitled "Mister Apollo", a song about an impossibly perfect body builder.
The only member of The Beatles to have been nominated for an Academy Award in his own right. His favorite singers were Little Richard and Elvis Presley. He met schoolmate George Harrison on the bus to the Institute from his suburban home in Speke; the two got acquainted riding the same bus every day, carrying their first guitars.
After McCartney joined John Lennon 's "Quarrymen," Harrison began turning up at their shows, and filled in when other members weren't available. Lennon objected to having a "kid" join the band, but McCartney persuaded him. He was born on the same day as film critic Roger Ebert , and two days before fellow musician and composer Brian Wilson. They also topped a similar list complied by VH1.
He had been unavailable to take part in the original version. At 5' 11", he was the tallest member of The Beatles , being about half an inch taller than the late George Harrison. Several of his solo albums and those with Wings featured cover photos by first wife Linda McCartney , including "Ram", with a picture of him handling a ram at his Scottish farm John Lennon later parodied this picture in his "Imagine" album, grasping the ears of a pig.
The back cover included a photo of bugs mating; while it was unintentional, several fans thought this illustrated a negative attitude towards the Beatles. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries in , The Beatles are the biggest popular music act of all time, with over million albums sold officially, while the total number of all Beatles' records sold was over 1 billion copies. He created a collection of oil paintings and had a one man art show in London.
He still owns an interest in Apple Corps, the Beatles's company. His own company MPL Communications owns a sizable publishing catalog, with over three thousand copyrights songs, poems, images, recordings, etc.
He and John Lennon quibbled bitterly in the press after the break up of The Beatles. He and Lennon considered turning up that night together as a joke, but were too tired to follow through. All 34 of his solo albums have made the Billboard Top , something very few solo artists have achieved.
As of , has released 34 studio albums, of which 31 feature pop music and 3 feature classical compositions. He has stated that he hopes to compose more classical pieces in the future, as well as a desire to venture into jazz at some point.
He had a remarkable 62 top singles from , under a variety of categories. He won five Grammys, including two with The Beatles. He and his long-time wife, Linda McCartney , said that Young was their favorite performer. He is the father-in-law of Alistair Donald and Alasdair Willis. On Sunday 13 November , he became the very first musician to perform live music for an audience in space.
He has a stepsister Ruth McCartney , adopted by his father when he married Ruth's mother. On 11 November , he was inducted as part of The Beatles into the UK Music Hall of Fame for their outstanding contribution to British music and integral part of British music culture. The hit "Yesterday" does not feature any of the other members of The Beatles. It's just McCartney and a string section. As such, the record company considered releasing it as a McCartney solo song, but decided not to because of objections by Lennon.
In , his knowledge of song lyrics , most notably Eddie Cochran's recording of "Twenty Flight Rock" with its 12 bar blues format, as well as Paul's superior ability to play guitar including being able to tune one impressed John Lennon so much that he invited McCartney to join his band the Quarry Men, which later became The Beatles.
He was The Beatles ' lead vocalist, bass player, pianist and songwriter. He was also an accomplished lead guitarist whose vibrato-laced solos can be heard on "Taxman," "Drive My Car," "Ticket to Ride," "Another Girl," and other Beatles' hits. Because of his divorce, he became the fourth and final member of The Beatles to get a divorce. Among the four, McCartney had the longest marriage to Linda McCartney , although Ringo Starr is still married to his second wife and has been since In , before completion of the film Across the Universe , director Julie Taymor brought the post-production copy to a private screening with Paul McCartney, and he liked the film.
And Ono did not relent, remarking that Lennon had told her that McCartney had hurt him more than any other person had. McCartney was hamstrung; how could he respond? Lennon was now a martyr. McCartney kept his counsel for a while. When he called my music Muzak. He was all action. He could be a maneuvering swine, which no one ever realized. About half a line. But perhaps he just made a mistake on that. We were once having a right slagging session and I remember how he took off his granny glasses.
I can still see him. That phrase keeps coming back to me all the time. I called Lewisohn, who lives just outside London, and has managed to sustain a generous view of all the Beatles.
He speaks respectfully of the McCartney songbook of recent decades. The rock-critic establishment has not been so generous.
Jann Wenner was a Lennon partisan and, for years, Rolling Stone reflected that view. He sometimes joins in the criticism. Not a few peers will speak up for McCartney, including his post-Beatles work. He can scream and shout as good as anybody. And his own memories of working with McCartney speak to an undimmed penchant for collaborative creativity.
As a young man, Costello had a Lennonesque edge, and I wondered if that informed their collaboration. The desire to change things around has sometimes led McCartney to make curious decisions; and critics have, at times, suggested that he stay in his lane.
Do you have to do that? He seemed racked with dread and very old. Krupa was a runaway train. The hall throbbed to his foot at the bass drum. There was something ominous, even frightening, about the spectacle of this sickly man, now come dangerously alive, at the edge of abandon. When Krupa was done, and the applause rained over him, you could see that his shirt was drenched.
After the show, we waited by the stage door on Fifty-sixth Street, hoping to see Teddy Wilson and thank him. The door banged open and an immense security guard burst onto the sidewalk. He was carrying an old man, seemingly unconscious, in his arms. It was Krupa, wrapped in towels. A cab pulled up, and the guard funnelled him into the back seat. Less than four months later, we read in the paper that Krupa had died, after struggling for years with leukemia.
He was sixty-four. For a time, the melodies just seemed to pour forth from McCartney, as if he were a vessel for something unearthly. He is still able to locate the magic occasionally. He knows as well as any critic that the essential songs were almost all done with the Beatles. Who among the living has brought more delight into the world?
Most poets and songwriters fade as they continue. Look at the Stones or the Kinks or Pink Floyd. But Paul is kind of engineered to do it, to keep going. And maybe there are other factors. I personally know seven artists in their eighties still working. And the entire British Invasion is turning eighty in the next few years.
You perform as much of your latest work as you feel like. The melancholy of age and the power of memory have always been central themes for McCartney. His complexion was pale, his eyes droopy. Nancy Shevell came by, dressed in a bathrobe and reading texts on her phone. For a few minutes, they did a post-party rundown, assessing the thank-yous from their guests. Outside, workers were loading up the glassware and the folding chairs.
Shevell went to inspect their progress. McCartney smiled. Stella McCartney was in tears when she watched the film with her father. And, as children, we were part of a process in which our dad was mourning. It was not an easy thing for Dad, and it lasted for a lot longer than we probably knew.
Paul is a hero to me, on the same shelf as my dad. My mom loves Paul, too, she really appreciates him. But all the tension we ever had, hyperbolized or not, makes it a real story about real human beings. McCartney sat down to talk on a screened porch. But the pandemic has been persistent, and McCartney was immersed in the business of the past, with getting the narrative right. The screening had been emotional. He watched images of Linda as a beautiful young woman, pregnant with Mary, who was now sitting beside him.
Except in the film. And there he is in massive closeup. I can study everything about him. They were a gang, a unit, even a family, and happy families are a bore, if they exist at all. David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since and a staff writer since Enter your e-mail address. Two weeks later, McCartney announced the first dates of his Freshen Up Tour, with stops in four Canadian cities through the end of September.
McCartney is pop music royalty. For his contributions to global rock 'n' roll culture, he has been knighted, named a fellow at the Royal College of Music, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among multitudes of other honors. McCartney was the first non-American to receive this honor. Two years later, he was named the MusiCares Person of the Year in honor of his artistic achievement and dedication to philanthropy.
Tragedy struck in , when McCartney's wife of 29 years, Linda, died after a long battle with cancer. Four years later, the musician married Heather Mills, a former model and activist. They welcomed a daughter, Beatrice, in Amid much tabloid scrutiny and intense animosity, McCartney and Mills parted ways in McCartney's interests extend far beyond music.
The former Beatle has explored filmmaking, writing, painting, meditation and activism. A longtime vegetarian, he teamed up with daughters Mary and Stella in to launch Meat Free Monday, a not-for-profit campaign that aims to raise awareness about the detrimental impact of meat consumption on individual health as well as the environment.
In November , the campaign released a new short video, One Day A Week , which included a previously unreleased song from the music legend, "Botswana. In , he published a children's book, Hey Grandude! Despite his many business ventures and creative pursuits, the most prolific Beatle, now in his 70s, continues to tour and sell out massive arenas and isn't showing any signs of slowing down.
When asked about his retirement plans, McCartney replied, in typical fashion, "Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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