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10.James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool Walton Hospital, in Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary, had worked as a nurse in the maternity ward.In 1954, while riding on the bus to the Institute, he met George Harrison, who lived nearby.Passing the exam meant that McCartney and Harrison did not have to go to a secondary modern school, which most pupils attended until they were eligible to work.In 1955, the McCartney family moved to 20 Forthlin Road (in Allerton), which is now owned by The National Trust.On 31 October 1956, Mary McCartney (who was a heavy smoker) died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer.The early loss of his mother later connected McCartney with John Lennon, whose mother, Julia, died when Lennon was 17.Jim McCartney used to point out the different instruments in songs on the radio, and often took Paul to local brass band concerts.McCartney wrote his first song ("I Lost My Little Girl") on the Zenith, and also played his father's Framus Spanish guitar when writing early songs with John Lennon.Elvis McCartney' drawing by Klaus Voormann.At the start of their friendship Lennon's Aunt Mimi disapproved of McCartney because he was, she said, "working class", and called McCartney, "John's little friend".McCartney's father told his son that Lennon would get him "into trouble", although he later allowed The Quarrymen to rehearse in the front room at 20 Forthlin Road.McCartney formed a close working relationship with Lennon and they collaborated on many songs.Harrison joined the group as lead guitarist, followed by Lennon's art school friend, Stuart Sutcliffe, on bass, with whom McCartney later bickered regarding Sutcliffe's musical ability.Bruno Koschmider's Indra club in Hamburg.McCartney's father was reluctant to let the teenage Paul go to Hamburg until Paul pointed out that he would earn two pounds and ten shillings per day.As this was more than he earned himself, Jim finally agreed.In October 1960, they left Koschmider's club and worked at the "Top Ten Club", which was run by Peter Eckhorn.When McCartney and Pete Best went back to the Bambi Kino to get their belongings they found it in almost total darkness.As a snub to Koschmider, they found a condom, attached it to a nail on the concrete wall of their room, and set fire to it.Lennon's work permit was revoked a few days later and he went home by train, but Sutcliffe had a cold and stayed in Hamburg, and then flew home.The Beatles returned to Hamburg in April 1961, and recorded "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan.Sutcliffe left the band after the end of their contract, so Paul reluctantly took over bass.On 1 October 1961, McCartney went with Lennon (who paid for the trip) to Paris for two weeks.The Beatles were first seen by Brian Epstein at the Cavern club on 9 November 1961, and he later signed them to a management contract.The Beatles' road manager, Neil Aspinall, drove them to London on 31 December 1961, where they auditioned the next day, but were rejected by Decca Records.Club, and learned of Stuart Sutcliffe's death a few hours before they arrived.Epstein sacked Pete Best(at the behest of McCartney, Lennon and Harrison) before they signed the contract.They usually needed an hour or two to finish a song, which were written in hotel rooms after a concert, at Wimpole Street, at Cavendish Avenue, or at Kenwood (John Lennon's house).McCartney would get preferential treatment everywhere he went, which he readily accepted.He even once accepted an offer from a policeman to be allowed to park McCartney's car.The Curzon House', and often saw Brian Epstein there.The Ad Lib club (above the Prince Charles Theatre at 7 Leicester Place) was later opened for the emerging 'Rock and Roll' crowd of musicians, and tolerated their unusual lifestyle.He also frequented The Bag O'Nails club at 8 Kingly Street in Soho, London, where he met Linda Eastman.McCartney was the first to be involved in a musical project outside of the group, when he composed the score for the film The Family Way in 1966.McCartney wrote songs for and produced other artists, including Mary Hopkin, Badfinger, and the Bonzo Dog Band, and in 1966, he was asked by Kenneth Tynan to write the songs for the National Theatre's production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare (starring Laurence Olivier) but declined.McCartney later attempted to persuade Lennon, Harrison and Starr to return to the stage, and when they had a meeting to sign a new contract with Capitol Records, McCartney suggested "going back to our roots," to which Lennon replied, "I think you're mad!"In August of that year McCartney formed Wings with guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell (although membership in Wings would change several times during its existence) and released their debut album, Wild Life.United States, "My Love".On 16 April, McCartney starred in a TV variety show called James Paul McCartney.Wings' most lauded work.In October 1972, McCartney recorded the theme song for the James Bond film Live and Let Die."Band on the Run" (the song) and "Junior's Farm"."Venus and Mars" was released in 1975 which featured "Listen to What the Man Said" and "Rock Show."Through 1975 and 1976, Wings embarked on the ambitious Wings Over the World tour, a concert recording of which was released as Wings Over America.UK until 1984, when Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas beat its record.Wings toured again in 1979, and McCartney organised the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea.Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr to reunite on the show.McCartney and Lennon had seriously considered going to the studio, but were too tired.This event was fictionalized in the 2000 television film, Two of Us.On the morning of 9 December 1980, McCartney awoke to the news that Lennon had been murdered outside his Dakota building home.Lennon's death created a media frenzy around the surviving members of The Beatles.On the evening of 9 December, as McCartney was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio, he was surrounded by reporters and asked for his reaction to Lennon's death.He explained that this was because he was nervous that he would be "the next" to be murdered.Also in 1981, six months after Lennon's death, McCartney sang backup on George Harrison's tribute to Lennon, "All Those Years Ago," along with Ringo Starr.Like McCartney before it, McCartney played every instrument on the 1980 release McCartney II, with an emphasis on synthesisers instead of guitars.Jackson's Thriller album, and "Say Say Say", a single from McCartney's 1983 album Pipes of Peace.Roger Ebert awarded the film a single star and wrote, "You can safely skip the movie and proceed directly to the sound track".In the second half of the decade McCartney would find new collaborators.Stewart's band, 10cc: "Don't Break the Promises" (...In 1987, EMI released All the Best!McCartney had admired over the years.The resulting songs would appear on several singles and albums by both artists, notably "Veronica" from Costello's album Spike, and "My Brave Face" from McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt, both released in 1989.MacManus compositions for "Flowers in the Dirt" surfaced on the 1991 album Mighty Like a Rose (Costello) and 1993's Off the Ground (McCartney).In late 1989, McCartney started his first concert tour since John Lennon's murder, which the first tour of the U.The cover of Flaming Pie, which was released in 1997.The 1990s saw McCartney venture into classical music.In the early 1990s (after another world tour), McCartney reunited with Harrison and Starr to work on Apple's The Beatles Anthology documentary series.Anthology 1 was released in 1995, and featured "Free as a Bird", which was the first Beatles reunion track, while Anthology 2, released in 1996, included "Real Love" (1996), the second and final in the reunion series.Both reunion tracks were completed by adding new music and vocal tracks to Lennon's demos from the late 1970s.UK and the US, and was nominated in the category Album of the Year at the 1998 Grammy Awards.In 1999, McCartney released another album of rock 'n' roll songs, titled Run Devil Run.That same year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.Clearly determined to follow the example of Run Devil Run's brisk recording pace, most of the album was recorded in two weeks, starting in February 2001.McCartney also composed and recorded the title track for the film Vanilla Sky, released later that year.McCartney took a lead role in organising The Concert for New York City in response to the events of September 11.Beatles' lead guitarist, and best friend of over 45 years, George Harrison, was losing his battle with cancer.Today that George was like his "baby brother"."Something" on a ukulele at the Concert for George.In 2002, McCartney went on another world tour that continued through the following two years.In what would be his first British music festival appearance, McCartney headlined the Glastonbury Festival in June 2004.McCartney and festival organiser Michael Eavis picked up the NME Award on behalf of the festival, which won 'Best Live Event' in the 2005 awards.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with U2 to open the Hyde Park event, although Ringo Starr criticised McCartney for not asking him to play."Yesterday" to commemorate the recent passing of Coretta Scott King.McCartney later noted that it was the first time he had performed at the Grammys and quipped, "I finally passed the audition," which was a reference to the John Lennon comment at the end of the Let It Be film: "I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition."Hear Music, to be distributed by Concord Music Group."For me, the great thing is the commitment and the passion and the love of music, which as an artist is good to see.It's a new world now and people are thinking of new ways to reach the people, and that's always been my aim".There are also rumours about McCartney doing a UK stadium tour Summer 2007.The website Scarlet Mist features dates listed for Hampden Park in Glasgow, City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, Wembley Stadium in London, and Kings Dock in Liverpool.McCartney played "secret gigs" in London, New York, and Los Angeles to promote his album.Memory Almost Full's singles.John Dunbar, who introduced him to the art dealer Robert Fraser, who in turn introduced Paul to an array of writers and artists.John Lennon first met Yoko Ono at the Indica.McCartney has also written and released several pieces of modern classical music and ambient electronica, besides writing poetry and painting.McCartney is lead patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, an arts school in the building formerly occupied by the Liverpool Institute for Boys.On 7 June 1996, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the redeveloped building.Liverpool Oratorio (1991), a collaborative composition with Carl Davis.North American premiere in Carnegie Hall in New York on 18 November 1991, with Davis conducting.Jerry Hadley and Willard White, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the choir of Liverpool Cathedral.In 1997, McCartney made his second venture into classical music with Standing Stone, which was commissioned by EMI Records to mark EMI's 100th anniversary in the autumn of 1997.In 1999, McCartney released Working Classical.In 2000, McCartney released A Garland for Linda; a choral tribute album, with compositions from eight other contemporary composers.The music was performed by "The Joyful Company of Singers" to raise funds for The Garland Appeal, which is a fund to aid cancer sufferers.It was recorded with the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields, and the boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge, Magdalen College School, Oxford, and was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 3 November 2006.It was voted Classical Album of the Year in 2007 in the Classical Brit Awards.Electronica
After the recording of "Yesterday" in 1965, McCartney contacted the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale, London, to see if they could record an electronic version of the song, but never followed it up.The tapes were mixes of various songs, musical pieces and comments made by McCartney that he had Dick James make into a demo record for him.He later made tape loops by recording voices, guitars and bongos on a Brenell tape machine, and splicing the various loops together.He reversed the tapes, sped them up, and slowed them down to create the effects he wanted (which were later used on Beatles' recordings, such as "Tomorrow Never Knows").McCartney referred to them as electronic symphonies and was heavily influenced by John Cage at the time.McCartney's direct involvement but employing a similar aesthetic.Most recently, in 2005, he worked on a project with bootleg producer and remixer Freelance Hellraiser, consisting of remixed versions of songs from throughout his solo career and released under the name Twin Freaks.Film
McCartney was interested in animated films as a child, and later had the financial resources to ask Geoff Dunbar to direct a short animated film called the Rupert and the Frog Song in 1981.McCartney later started buying paintings by Magritte, and used Magritte's painting of an apple for the Apple Records logo.McCartney's English teacher, Alan Durband, in 1946.McCartney's father was interested in crosswords and invited the two young McCartneys (Paul and his brother Michael) to solve them with him, so as to increase their "word power".Alan Durband, who was McCartney's English literature teacher at the Liverpool Institute.Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, where Willy Russell also worked, and introduced McCartney to Geoffrey Chaucer's works.Some of them were serious: "Here Today" (about John Lennon) and some humorous ("Maxwell's Silver Hammer").In the foreword of the book, McCartney explained that when he was a teenager, he had "an overwhelming desire" to have a poem of his published in the school magazine.In a press release publicizing the book, McCartney said, "I have loved reading for as long as I can remember," singling out Treasure Island as a childhood favourite.McCartney collaborated with author Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar to write the book.They were engaged to be married until they broke up in 1968.McCartney married American photographer Linda Eastman in 1969 (McCartney was the last Beatle to get married).In 2002, McCartney married former model Heather Mills and they had a child in 2003, although they announced their separation in May, 2006 and divorced later that year.Widespread animosity towards Paul McCartney's wives was reported in 2004.New York divorcee with a child, and at the time they didn't like that."One of McCartney's first girlfriends was called Layla, whom McCartney remembered as having an unusual name in Liverpool at the time.Julie Arthur was another girlfriend, who was Ted Ray's niece.McCartney's first serious girlfriend in Liverpool was Dot (Dorothy) Rhone, whom he met at the Casbah club in 1959.He also paid for Rhone to have her blonde hair done in the style of Brigitte Bardot, whom Lennon and McCartney idolised.Love You" were written about her.Rhone is now a grandmother and lives in Mississauga, Ontario.The Beatles were performing at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, when McCartney first met British actress Jane Asher on 18 April 1963, and a photographer asked them to pose with Asher.The Beatles were interviewed by Asher for the BBC, and Asher was then photographed screaming at them like a fan.McCartney later persuaded her to become his girlfriend.McCartney took up residence at the Ashers' house at 57 Wimpole Street, London, and lived there for nearly three years.Jane inspired many songs, such as "And I Love Her", "You Won't See Me", and "I'm Looking Through You".McCartney created a music room on the top floor of his house, where he worked with Lennon.He thanked the Ashers by paying for the decoration of the front of their house.On 15 May 1967, McCartney met American photographer Linda Eastman at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails club in London.Eastman was in the UK on an assignment to take photographs of "Swinging sixties" musicians in London.McCartney and Linda later went to The Speakeasy club on Margaret Street.On 25 December 1967, McCartney and Asher announced their engagement, and she accompanied McCartney to India in February and March of 1968.Jane Asher has consistently refused to publicly discuss that part of her life.In May 1968, McCartney met Eastman again in New York, when Lennon and McCartney were there to announce the formation of Apple Corps.In September, McCartney phoned Eastman and asked her to fly over to London.Six months later, McCartney and Eastman were married at a small civil ceremony (when Linda was four months pregnant with McCartney's child) at Marylebone Registry Office on 12 March 1969.Paul has claimed that he and Linda spent less than a week apart during their entire marriage, interrupted only by Paul's incarceration in Tokyo on drug charges in January 1980.Linda McCartney died following a battle with breast cancer in Tucson, Arizona, on 17 April 1998.Stella is currently expecting her third child which will be due in late 2007 or early 2008 which will be Pauls fifth Grandchild.After having sparked the interest of the tabloids about his appearances with Heather Mills at events, McCartney appeared publicly beside Mills at a party in January 2000, to celebrate her 32nd birthday.Castle Leslie in Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland, where more than 300 guests were invited and the reception included a vegetarian banquet.In October 2003, Mills McCartney gave birth to a daughter, Beatrice Milly McCartney.The baby was reportedly named after Heather's late mother Beatrice and Paul's Aunt Milly.On 29 July 2006, British newspapers announced that McCartney had petitioned for divorce, which sparked a press furor.Lifestyle
McCartney's lifestyle was greatly altered by his success and the income he earned.In 1965, Miles introduced McCartney to hash brownies by using a recipe for hash fudge he found in the Alice B.Beatles occasionally smoked a spliff in the car on the way to the studio during filming, which often made them forget their lines.Dick Lester said that he overheard "two beautiful women" trying to cajole McCartney into taking heroin, but he refused.McCartney's attitude about cannabis was made public in the 1960s, when he added his name to an advertisement in The Times, on 24 July 1967, which asked for the legalisation of cannabis, the release of all prisoners imprisoned because of possession, and research into marijuana's medical uses.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.But the man from the newspaper is the man from the mass medium.I'll keep it a personal thing if he does too, you know ...In spite of his statements then, and his admission (in 2004) that he had used cocaine, McCartney was not arrested by Norman Pilcher's Drug Squad, as had been Lennon, Harrison, Donovan, and several members of the Rolling Stones.Whilst McCartney went through customs, officials found 7.The members of Wings cancelled the tour and left Japan.He was told that he would not be welcome in Japan again, although a decade later he played a concert in Tokyo.McCartney said that although he does not meditate daily, he still uses the mantra that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gave him in Bangor.The time McCartney later spent in India at the Maharishi's ashram was highly productive, as practically all of the songs that would later be recorded for The White Album and Abbey Road were composed there by McCartney, Lennon, or both together.In 2002, McCartney gave his support to a campaign against a proposed ban on the sale of certain vitamins, herbs and mineral products in the European Union.Their arrival sparked attention in Newfoundland and Labrador where the hunt is of economic significance.The couple also debated with Newfoundland's Premier Danny Williams on the CNN show Larry King Live.McCartney has been involved with a number of charity recordings and performances.Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Live Aid, and the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (released 8 May 1989) following the Hillsborough disaster.Prior to the success of The Beatles, McCartney would sometimes use the stage name Paul Ramone or Ramon (a sobriquet that was later the inspiration for the name of US punk band The Ramones).In 1964, McCartney wrote Peter and Gordon's first three hit singles; "A World Without Love", "Nobody I Know", and "I Don't Want To See You Again".Dah Band and were collectively credited as "Apollo C.McCartney later admitted he was Clint Harrigan.In 1994 he appeared as "The Fireman" (a collaboration with Youth) with the album Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, discussed above, an album based on sounds from his album "Off the Ground".In 2006, the Trademarks Registry reported that MPL had started a process to secure the protections associated with registering the name "Paul McCartney" as a trademark.McCartney admitted to 'bossing Lennon around.United Kingdom than any other artist under a variety of credits, although Elvis Presley has achieved more as a solo artist."Pipes of Peace"), duo ("Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder), trio ("Mull of Kintyre", Wings), quartet ("She Loves You", The Beatles), quintet ("Get Back", The Beatles with Billy Preston) and sextet ("Let It Be" with Ferry Aid).The Beatles received their MBEs at Buckingham Palace.On 11 March 1997, he was knighted for his "services to music".Beatle to have been nominated as a solo artist for an Academy Award, for songs in the films Vanilla Sky and Live and Let Die.At the 1983 BRIT Awards, McCartney won the award for 'British male solo artist' and 'The Sony award for technical excellence'.Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory, was named 'McCartney' in honour of Paul.Paul McCartney: When I'm 64."The BMI Top 100 Songs" bmi.Retrieved 11 February 2004."The UK's Best Selling Singles" ukcharts.Retrieved 23 September 2007.Photo of Forthlin Road nationaltrust.The Guinness Who's Who Of Country Music: Slim Whitman entry, Guinness Publishing, 1993.Early guitars McCartney played thecanteen.Lennon: The Definitive Biography.Paul McCartney biography mplcommunications.BBC Radio Leeds interview bbc.James Paul McCartney (TV), Internet Movie Database imdb.Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings.Paul McCartney discography connollyco.Paul McCartney: McCartney II review.UK top 40 database everyhit.Give My Regards to Broad Street review.Costello about McCartney geocities.Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2006."McCartney Unearths Live Clips, Videos For DVD" billboard.Liverpool Oratorio, Paul McCartney (with Carl Davis) 30 September 1996, Cat.Working Classical, Paul McCartney, Producer: John Fraser, Cat.Classical BRITs Winners 2007 classicfm.Oobu Joobu CDs and Mp3s paulmccartney.Oobu Joobu track list maccafan.Tropic Island Hum Covers www.The Biography Channel thebiographychannel.The Music and Animation Collection moviehabit.Saturday 14 October 2006 faber."McCartney's lament: I can't buy your love", Sydney Morning Herald, 12 June 2004.DVD 2003 (Episode 1: 43:51) McCartney talking about sex and strippers in Hamburg.The Daily Telegraph telegraph."SEQUEL: ALL TOGETHER NOW Thirty years later, the surviving Beatles get back to where they once belonged", People, February 14, 1994.Biography Resource Center Online."They can't work it out; For these couples, summer wasn't all sunshine", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 21,2006.Paul McCartney Files For Divorce.Heather Mills Denies Settlement Report (22 January 2007).DVD 2003 (Episode 1: 44:28) Starr and Harrison talking about Preludins in Hamburg.Harrison talking about the trip to Greece to buy an island.Paul McCartney on Drugs.McCartney vows to keep animal rights torch alight bbc."McCartney attacks China over fur"bbc.US campaign for Burma protest bbb.McCartney talking about The Beatles catalogue contactmusic.Rupert And The Frog Song bbc."Sir Paul McCartney", Virgin.Retrieved: 11 June 2006."Sir Paul is Your Millennium's greatest composer", 3 May 1999, at BBC.Retrieved 3 November 2006.Retrieved: 11 June 2006.Live 8 (DVD) Various Artists, 7 November, 2005, Cat."SOMEWHERE MAN WITH A TOUR TO RAVE ABOUT, MCCARTNEY'S STILL GOING PLACES", News Popular Music Critic, Denver Rocky Mountain News, May 4, 2002.Planet called McCartney harvard.Lennon: the definitive biography.The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia.Little, Brown and Company (New York).Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings.The Unknown Paul McCartney.The Beatles Anthology (2003).Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There.The Pretenders Where Has Everybody Gone?All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio is Paul McCartney's first official foray into classical music and was released in 1991.After his school days where he often "sagged off" (Liverpool slang for skipping class), Shanty began working and meets his future bride, Mary Dee.Following the death of his father, Shanty and Mary Dee are married and are forced to deal with the rigors of balancing a happy marriage and their careers.Track listing
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Sep 17St.US Tour, his fastest selling concert tour ever.McCartney instant classics such as "Fine Line" and "Promise To You Girl" and more introspective darker tracks such as "At The Mercy," "Too Much Rain" and "Riding To Vanity Fair."One of the many highlights is a track entitled "Jenny Wren," which Paul describes as a "daughter of 'Blackbird,'" as well as "Follow Me," which McCartney debuted at The Glastonbury Festival, while on his '04 Summer European Tour.What type of album was McCartney making?McCartney, who despite repeated inquiries, touring commitments and pressure from his record label, managed to maintain his focus.The music became more interesting over time and I'm really proud of what we did.""We really made a lot of it up as we went along," added McCartney."I'd try something and if it didn't work I'd try something else until it did."When Paul and I got together we had a common goal," said Godrich.Please enable Javascript to be able to see a summary of your order here.Paul McCartney was the first of the Beatles to work on an extracurricular recording project (the soundtrack to the 1966 film The Family Way) and also the first to release a bonafide solo album of songs (McCartney, which appeared as the Beatles were dissolving in 1970).Beatle and has also enjoyed the greatest measure of commercial success.Without question he is one of the most important musicians of the 20th century.McCartney has rarely been a favorite of rock critics.Seventies void after the chaos and clamor of the Sixties.Ram, credited to Paul and Linda McCartney.The couple were married in March 1969; it was the second marriage for Linda.For the rest of the decade, save for the odd solo single, McCartney devoted his creative energies to Wings.Under the banner of Wings, McCartney worked with Linda (who played keyboards and sang) and a fairly stable lineup of musicians.Technically, Wings were an entity longer than the Beatles, though there occurred several personnel changes between their formation in 1971 and disbanding ten years later.Wings Over America, was a major rock and roll event.Commercially, McCartney had his finger on the pulse of the Seventies.Wings Greatest, with nothing but hits.In 1979, Wings switched labels, from Capitol to Columbia, and released their last album, Back to the Egg.The group officially disbanded in April 1981.He followed it with Tug of War (1982), which reunited him with Beatles producer George Martin and was regarded as his strongest outing since Band On the Run.McCartney also explored classical forms with his Liverpool Oratorio (1991), written with conductor Carl Davis, and the orchestral piece Standing Stone (1997), composed in celebration of the 100th anniversary of EMI, his record label.Another project close to his heart was Wide Prairie, an album of songs by his late wife, Linda McCartney.Linda died of breast cancer in 1998.TIMELINE
June 18, 1942: James Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, England.October 18, 1957: Paul McCartney makes his debut with the Quarrymen, a skiffle group founded by John Lennon.February 1, 1958: Paul McCartney introduces George Harrison to the Quarrymen at a basement teen club called the Morgue.August 1, 1960: The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, West Germany, with Stu Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums.January 1, 1961: The Beatles make their debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.November 1, 1961: Local record store manager Brian Epstein is introduced to the Beatles.He soon signs a contract to manage them.April 10, 1962: Stu Sutcliffe dies of a brain hemorrhage.February 11, 1964: The Beatles begin their first U.Paul McCartney, but never recorded by the Beatles.August 15, 1965: The Beatles play in front of almost 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City.Candlestick Park, the Beatles declare this to be their final concert tour.Later that month, John invites Yoko to his house in Weybridge.They make experimental tapes all night.March 12, 1969: Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman are married in London.October 12, 1969: Commencing with a call to a Detroit disk jockey, rumors that Paul McCartney is dead begin circulating.Beatle lyrics and album covers.Beatle played all the parts, is released.August 3, 1971: Paul McCartney unveils his new band, Wings, comprising Paul McCartney and Linda with Denny Laine (guitar) and Denny Seiwell (drums).Though there will be personnel changes, Paul McCartney and Linda remain loyal to the Wings rubric for the next ten years.Albums released during the Wings era: Wild Life (1971), Red Rose Speedway (1973), Band on the Run (1973), Venus and Mars (1975), Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976), Wings Over America (1976), London Town (1978), Wings Greatest (1978) and Back to the Egg (1979).Paul McCartney and Wings, hits the top of the U.Beatle, kicks off in Britain.It runs for 13 months, ending in October 1976.December 1976, is culled from U.Paul McCartney tops the U.Paul McCartney with Beatles producer George Martin, is released to glowing reviews and strong sales.February 1, 1989: CHOBA B CCCP ("Again in U.September 28, 1989: Paul McCartney commences a world tour that will run through July 29, 1990.February 21, 1990: Paul McCartney is given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.Paul McCartney kicks off another world tour in Perth, Australia.January 19, 1994: Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.March 15, 1999: Paul McCartney is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fourteenth annual induction dinner.Family Album
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