Paul McCartney

Biography

His/her father, Jim, played in an orchestra of Jazz and were representative in Coton. It was also Pompier of night. He played of the Clarinette but without much success.

His/her mother, Mary, former nurse, died in 1956 of a Cancer of the Sein.

Paul starts by playing of the trumpet, then Piano, like his father, for finally learning the Guitare at 14 years. Within the Beatles, it must pass to the low when Stuart Sutcliffe, up to that point bass player, leaves the group. Its low Hofner violin will know itself the celebrity thanks to her famous instrumentalist. Paul bought it because it was symmetrical and him left-handed. It meets John Lennon on July 6th, 1957 with a parish fair (village fair), via his friend Ivan Vaughan. Its first pseudonym is Paul Ramon, name which will be taken again in homage by the Ramones.

With Beatles, the duet Lennon/MacCartney enters the history of the Pop music and becomes the most famous duet of type-setters of the history of the Pop. song

After the Beatles, he plays in solo and creates his own group, the Wings, formed in September 1971 and dissolves in May 1981, which includes his wife, Linda. In the first album, testicle quite simply McCartney , and recorded in its farm in Scotland, it only plays of all the instruments (it will leave two other albums 100% solo, McCartney II and 25 years after, in 2005, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard ). The second album, RAM , are always solo, but play there already three future members of its group Wings, Paul and Linda, Denny Seiwell, and two musicians of studio having worked three years with Wings, David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken.

Its album RAM caused this eulogistic comment on the other side of the Atlantic: “Beatles returned. They are called today Paul McCartney”. It is in fact that Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey has there some accents very “Sgt Pepper'. It is however the album Band one the run , in 1973, which is worth the dedication of criticisms to him. Paul connects in 1975 with the album Venus and Mars , in which figure a song intended to open the concerts of its round to the the United States: Come and Mars/Rockshow.

Silly Love Songs is worth with the round of Wings to the the United States a success which does not yield of anything to that old Beatles. The song wants to be a response without spite to John Lennon which gave at the time a more political coloring to its songs and had regretted in an interview the proliferation of the Silly coils songs in question, without quoting Paul besides. A telefilm of Michael Lindsay-Hogg become mythical, Two off custom , described the meeting of John and Paul when Wings passed in round to New York. In 1978, it off composes with Denny Laine the song Mull Kintyre , which will remain a long time the 45 turns more sold with the world.

In October 1979, it receives, for the whole of its career, a disc of rhodium certifying several records of sales. He is the only artist in the world to have received similar reward. 1979 are, in addition, the year of the exit of the last album of Wings: Back to the Egg . The legend wants that Paul decided to dissolve the group after his arrest in Japan for detention of marijuana. The album solo of Denny Laine, left a little later accredits this legend by its title " Japanese Tears". Shocked by the death of John Lennon, on December 8th, 1980, Paul homage returns to him on its second album solo post-Wings, in the song " Today" young stag;. This song is taken again, many years later, in 2003, on its album live " Back in the World". One also finds there a resumption in the form of homage of the song " Something" of George Harrison.

After the death of Linda to which it pays homage in the oratorio " Ecce horn meum" that it composes in 2006, it marries Heather Mills, old mannequin which it met at the time of the organization of an official reception for Handicap International, and itself handicapped of a leg. It, in 2006, attracted itself the lightnings of the English tabloïds following the advertisement of its next divorce with Paul and to have posed in its youth for photographs of charm.

Its brother, Mike McGear (Peter Michael McCartney), which sang already before Beatles do not meet success (and its name at this time changed, in order not to pass for opportunist), belonged to the group The Scaffold which knew also its moment of glory with a song " with boire" Lily The Pink (*), #1 RU, fine 1968 . (*) Become in France via Richard Anthony the syrup typhoon .

Paul McCartney is very active today in the promotion of the rights of the animals and the Végétarisme, supporting regularly the campaigns of Peta. It was annobli by the Queen of England.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon are often quoted like the duet of the most talented composer-songwriters and most prolific of the 20th century. Their challengers name Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller or for unquestionable Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Doc. Pomus & Mort Shuman, Burt Bacharach & Hal David etc… The eternal young bass player left-handed of Liverpool composed a number impressing of successes " pop". With and without Beatles, he also sought to explore new forms, he composed two in particular oratorios traditional. Greeted by the critic, her last album Memory Almost Full appeared at spring 2007, recalls that it is one of the largest melodists of the century.

Anecdotes

Denny Teases, member of Wings of November 1971 in December 1982, was a former member of the Moody Blues.
Jimmy McCulloch, member of Wings of September 1973 in November 1978 was member of Thunderclap Newman and Stone The Crows + a short appearance in The Small Faces at the end of 1978. It is deceased of an heart attack related to an overdose in 1979. Roof of the irony: it is him which sang (and of fort beautiful way) in the song Medecine Gravel bank : “ Get one your feet, you won' T get far yew you keep one sticking you hand in the medicine gravel bank ”.
Geoff Britton, champion of karate, joint Wings of May 1973 in June 1974.
Laurence Juber, member of Wings of July 1978 in April 1981, knows since an immense success in the USA.
Denny Teases, Laurence Juber & Steve Holly always gives concerts of Wings at the time of the various festivals Beatles throughout the world.
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Phil Collins (Genesis), Hank Marvin (The Shadows), Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Ian Paice (Deep Purple) and other great names the pop one collaborated on several occasions in creations of Wings or Paul in solo.
Paul starts in July 2006 a divorce procedure against Heather Mills McCartney. It would reproach him for being become “unreasonable” and too difficult to manage… It could receive not less than 300 million euros for this divorce. In fact, instead of receiving 400 million dollars is the quarter of the fortune of McCartney, it received only 56 million.
the song Let It Be opens on a mystical evocation of “Mother Mary”. Actually, it is less than one evocation about the Virgin Mary that of her mother, deceased whereas Paul was 14 years old.
the legend wants that Paul McCartney is unable to decipher a musical partition. Any sound musical work thus would be written and played ear!
on March 25th, 2003, at the beginning in its concert with Bercy for the round Back in the World , part of crowd entonna Give peace has chance John Lennon to protest against the second war of Iraq which had begun three days before. Paul McCartney is satisfied to applaud, but does not sing the song of John with the public of Paris. Is this for technical reasons or because it approves the position of the governments American and British? Or, perhaps, because it does not wish to express its dissension publicly? At all events, he already sang this song in homage to John Lennon at the time of one in these concert with Liverpool.
A few weeks later, at the time of the concert in Sportspaleis of Antwerp, after the homage to John and Georges, the public claimed a song of Ringo, and amused Paul started Yellow Submarine , then hearing the public shout “another”, it played some notes of Octopus' S Garden … before asking while laughing the crowd if it is the repertory of Ringo which she wanted to listen to or it his…
He has sixty-five years today and thus exceeded the age of When I' m Sixty-Furnace , of the album Sgt. Pepper' S Lonely Hearts Club Band of the Beatles. He had written this song at the fifteen years age.
the name of the album Flaming Pie comes from a vision that John Lennon would have had when it was young, of a man on a pie on fire which would have said to him that it would be a beatle with a large A. interesting Anecdote since the album was supposed to make homage at the time of the beatles.

Its best quotations are gathered in Paul McCartney Selected Pieces , written by Dominique Grandfils, already author of a biography of Sir Paul McCartney in 1993.

Fortune

One estimates today (July 2007) the fortune of Paul McCartney at approximately (even more) of 1 billion 600 million dollars.

With the research of the phantom song

One day, Paul believes to remember an old melody, the cheek with George Martin - which has an important musical culture - and asks him to find the song of origin to buy the rights of adaptation, in order to put it at its repertory. Research remains vain: it would seem that the melody which Paul believes to remember does not exist. This one will work above whereas it is on vacation in his friend Bruce Welch, the rhythmic guitarist of the Shadows, by giving him the name of Scrambled Eggs , then the name will change some into Yesterday . George Martin suggests a String quartet for her arrangement, which at the time is regarded as provocative : who forever seen in 1965 an orchestra of rock'n'roll being made accompany by a string quartet? Fifteen years later, this song will become a standard , with 3.000 recorded interpretations, and a biography of McCartney will estimate that statistically, on planet, “there is at every moment a radio some share which is diffusing it”.

John Lennon forever disputed in Paul the total paternity of this song, which it will rent twice:

in How C you sleep , song being caught some vigorously in Paul then in lawsuit with the remainder of the group, but where John recognizes in a gouailleuse way “ The only thing you gives was yesterday ”.
in the press conference where it indicates which wrote what in their common songs. Arrived at Yesterday , it specifies: “ Paul. Definitely his best ”.

For this song and right that one, Paul will ask Yoko Ono, widow of John, if it would accept that the immutable order of the authors which is since their beginnings and for all their songs “Lennon/McCartney” is changed into “McCartney-Lennon” (let us recall that of its own consent “John nothing made in this song has”!). Yoko is shaken, does not say not, request to reflect… to end up refusing, with the reason not to muddle the mythical image related to this claw. In the final analysis, it is decided that Yesterday will be credited “McCartney-Lennon” whereas this last is not there for nothing.

The “death” of Paul

The exit of Sgt. Pepper' S Lonely Hearts Club Band causes many questions: why abruptly the Beatles let are push the Moustache S as if they did not want that it is recognized them, with the risk to scramble their image any more?

The answer is simple: at the time of one strolls in the motor bike with one of his/her friends, Paul McCartney had an accident and had a problem above its mouth (the skin was torn), it went in a doctor, but this last did anything and so that its scar is not seen, it was let push the moustache, and other Beatles followed it and them also let push a moustache. Why, on the fourth of cover, Paul - only of all - is represented back? Why on the cover, beside Beatles truths with their new look, these Beatles “with old”, in Wax, like representing the disappearance of the Beatles spirit? Why, with the foreground, this tomb covered with flowers representing a low guitar in form of P (the more so as the assistance made up of much of died)? Why the new Paul man with a moustache carry does a black macaroon “OPD” which could evoke the initials Officially Pronounced Dead , concise mention designating the missing soldiers? And why, especially, they announced that they stopped the rounds, them of which each one was a triumph?

When the album Abbey Road left, one could note other indices on the " mort" of Paul. Ringo, in black, represents death. John, in white, represents death in the Eastern countries. Georges, in " jeans" , the hole would have dug where Paul would have been buried. And Paul, in black (color representing death), is only the naked foot. He holds also his cigarette of the right hand while he is left-handed.

A rumor starts to quiver: Paul McCartney would have died, and the group would try to hide the thing by replacing it by an approximate double. One discovers “keys” on this “death” in new songs. Paul lets run the rumor: this side hoax enchants it. It will make just a short comment: “What do I learn? I died? Why am I always the last with being put at the current of all? ”. The rumor will develop despite everything more and more. On the Sgt album. Peppper' S lonely hearts club band, at the end of the song of the same name, one hears " and let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears " , Billy Shears would be a double of Paul McCartney, having replaced the former bass player not to start fulgurating it rise of the group.

At the any end of the song " Strawberry Fields Forever" , some believed to intend John Lennon to murmur " I buried Paul" (" I buried Paul"). Lennon, thereafter, indicated that it marmonnait actually " Cranberry sauce".

The rumors on the death of Paul for summer have contradicted: in 1993, Paul will make a humorous denial by pastichant the cover of Abbey Road (it also very provided in elements " indiscutables" as the fact that Paul is barefeet or the registration of VW: 28IF). Its title? “Paul is Live”.

Not to lose sight of the fact somewhat the “surrealist” influence of John Lennon (author of a book translated into French under the title “Into Obvious Is delirious”), in the imaginary one of Beatles (" Tomorrow Never Knows" , " Strawberry Fields Forever" , " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" , " In Day in the Life" , " I amndt the Walrus").

Another index, seldom evoked, which can testify to the will conscious of manufacturing a certain image of an artist: photographs of the small pockets recto/back of the compilations “Red” and “Blue” published in France, where one can see Beatles photographed at a few years of interval, in against-plunged, in the same attitude and the same stair-well.

In 1978 Eric Idle of the Monty Python exploits this topic in a comic way thanks to the group which it created: The Rutles, parodic homage to Beatles. The film All you need is cash thus reveals not the death of Paul but that of George by all kinds of incongruous indices, like the fact that Stig (George) does not carry pants on the cover of " Shabbey Road" or that to sing with back " Sgt Rutles Only Darts Band" club; is supposed to obtain (translation) " Honestly Stig died for a long time ". In fact that gives: " Dnab Bulc Strad Ylno Srettur Tnargress".

The popularity of Internet contributed to maintain this myth. Some persist in believing in the death of Paul McCartney, with “evidence” based on photographs and the analysis of the words of the songs. Whole sites are devoted to the supposed death of McCartney.

The marriage of Paul

Brian Epstein had made of sound better for hiding than John Lennon was married (it was better for their image near the young people Groupie S than those believe them unmarried), but information perspired. When the question was mentioned in an interview of the group, John praised the joys of paternity, while Paul declared that this condition hardly attracted it. After has hardware day' S night , Jane Asher will become a kind of “promised in marriage permanent” of Paul, who will offer some songs to his brother Peter Asher of the singers Peter and Gordon (whose World without coils ). They were inseparable, they everywhere were seen together, and then one Paul day, the last of Beatles to being remained unmarried, announces its marriage with… a named divorced American young person Linda Eastman! The researchers of keys break out: this is not the awaited proof that this Paul is not the same Paul ?

As of this date, Paul is posed as a fanatic monogamist: Linda is mobilized in its group Wings, Paul never dries up praises on Linda, Paul creates songs to celebrate openly Linda ( Letting go ), Paul indicates to length of interview that the chance of its life is to have met Linda, etc In a world of the show biz where the divorce is current thing (other Beatles on the occasion to discover it!), against any waiting, it is the couple of Paul and Linda which will remain stable until the death of this one.

Discography

For the discs with the Beatles, to see the page devoted to their discography.
For the discs with the Wings, to see the page devoted to this group.

In solo

McCartney (1970)
RAM (1971) (Solo although four (futures) Wings are present on this album)
McCartney II (1980)
Tug Of War (1982)
Pipes Off Peace (1983)
Give My Regards to Broad Street , B.O of the film éponyme (1984); 9/20/1993
Close To Play (1986)
All the Best , compilation (1987)
CHOBA B CCCP (Back In The USSR) , taken again standards of the rock'n'roll (version vinyl the USSR 1988, international version CD 1991)
Flowers In The Dirt (1989)
Tripping The Live Fantastic , triple LP and double album CD (1990)
( Hight Light , version simple album of the precedent live (1990))
Unplugged - the official bootleg , album live recorded in the studio MTV (1991)
Off The Ground (1993)
Paul is Live , album live (1994)
Black and white Flaming (1997)
Run Devil Run , of which some resumptions of standards of rock' roll (1999)
Driving Rain (2001)
Back In The U.S , double album live (2002)
Back In The World , double album live (2003 )
Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005)
Memory Almost Full (2007)

Music known as " classique"

1991 : Liverpool Oratorio
1995: has leaf
1997: Standing Stone
1999: Working Classical
2006 : Ecce Horn Meum (" See my cœur") Oratorio in 4 movements for chorus, soprano, organ and orchestra. Played in Nice (Acropolis) in first Frenchwoman the 11/4/07.

Others

1966 : The Family Way , film original soundtrack
1984: Ruppert/Daumier' S Law
2000: Liverpool Sound Joining , research electronic music
2005: Twin Freaks , remixes

Under the pseudonym Percy " Thrills" Thrillington

1977 : Thrillington

Under the pseudonym " The Fireman"

1993 : Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest
1998: Rushes

Participations

1974 : James Taylor (Walking Man)
1987: Duane Eddy & the Rebels (Capitol) with Ry Cooder, Jeff Lynne, Jim Keltner, George Harrison, Steve Cropper…
2006: Tony Bennett (Duets: Year American Classic)

Vidéos

Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
The Paul McCartney Special (1987)
Could It There (1989)
The World Tour 1989 (1989)
At The ED Sullivan Theater (1990)
Unplugged (1991)
Movin One (1993)
The New World Tour (1993)
At The Cavern Club (1999)
P.E.T.A. Concert for Animals (2000)
Back In U.S. (2002)
Paul McCartney In Red Public garden (2004)
Chaos and Creation in Abbey Road (2005)
The Space Within US (2006)
Memory Almost Full (Special Package) (2007)
The McCartney Years (Anthology in 3 DVD) (2007)

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