This great musician is addressed only sir. The whole world knows him as the founder of the Liverpool Four, The Beatls, and this is McCartney James Paul. The albums of their group in millions of copies sold out around the world. They brought a new inspired flow to music and drove all the girls crazy.
short biography
Paul McCartney (Paul McCartney) was born June 18, 1942 in Liverpool. His parents were Scots. His mother's name was Mary, she was Catholic and worked in a local clinic as a midwife and nurse. Paul's father, James McCartney, was a trumpeter and pianist before the war, and even had his own small jazz band, but the war ruined his plans. After the war, he worked at a mechanical engine factory and at a cotton exchange. He began to raise his son without the involvement of religion, since he himself had once turned from a Protestant into an agnostic. The McCartney family lived modestly. Paul still had brother Michael.
In 1947, James Paul McCartney attended J. Williams Elementary School in Bel Vale. After graduating from school, in 1954 he went to study at a high school for boys, which was called the Liverpool Institute.
In 1956, Paula was shocked by the death of her mother, who died of breast cancer. Subsequently, this loss brought him closer to John Lennon, whose mother died when he was 17 years old.
Paul had an old trumpet donated by his father, but he exchanged it for the Framus Zenith acoustic guitar. James Paul McCartney was left-handed, learned to play it on the principle of Slim Whitman, who arranged the strings in the reverse order. Paul began to skillfully imitate such world stars as Elvis Presley and Little Richard.
Creative lift
Once in Walton, Paul was invited to perform by John Lennon's The Quarrymen band in the lobby of St. Peter's Church. There, on July 6, 1957, McCartney first met with Lennon. John was a bit tipsy, but he really enjoyed playing Paul's guitar. Subsequently, McCartney began to tune Lennon's guitar.
The father of the floor and Aunt Mimi were wary of this friendship, they believed that Lennon was a native of the lower classes, and expected him to get in trouble. But the guys played very quickly and already in 1957 began to write songs together in McCartney’s father’s house on Fortlin Road.
Paul, while still studying at school in 1954, accidentally met George Harris, who became his friend, and therefore he invited John Lennon to take him to his team.
The beatles and paul mccartney
And already in 1960 in Hamburg their group first performed under the name The Beatles. There they were under the tutelage of entrepreneur Bruno Koshmider (former clown).
After some time, from an ordinary musician, Paul turned into a real professional. It is believed that 800 concert hours spent on the stages of the clubs of this city made The Beatles a world-famous band.
In the early winter of 1960, the Beatles gave a concert to the Litherland Town Hall, which was a turning point in their future destiny. Beatle mania boom began.
Until 1961, Paul played the rhythm guitar, then after the dismissal of the musician Stuart Sutcliffe with the scandal, he became the bass player.
Albums, concerts and hits
The megahit that opened them wide doors was She Loves You. Then the group appeared on television in the Royal Variety Show, a show watched by 26 million people. This served as the trigger for their grandiose fame.
And then came concerts, albums, work with famous music showmen and their programs.
In 1965, the group was awarded the Order of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth II herself presented them with an award in Buckingham Palace.
In the same year, the Help film was released with the participation of The Beatles, where for the first time another permanent hit of the group was played - the song Yesterday. And in New York, Paul finally met with his idol Elvis Presley.
In 1968, the band released the "White Album", which was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling. And on May 8, the Beatles released their last studio album. One day, James Paul McCartney, exhausted and in a very depressed state, as he said, mostly because of drugs and alcohol, fell asleep, and he dreamed of his dead mother, who told him: “Let everything be so, everything will work out, not worry. " This dream saved him, because he was on the edge of the abyss. In the morning he felt enormous relief and then, stepping over his problems, he wrote his hit song Let it Be.
Parting with the Beatles
In December 1970, James Paul McCartney began the process of terminating the contract with the Beatles and filed a lawsuit against John Lennon, Alan Klein, George Harrison and Ringo Star.
In 1971, he creates his own group Wings and successfully performs with her, although he understands that the success that the Beatles had, they can no longer achieve.
The last conversation of two former friends, Paul and John, took place in the fall of 1980, then they could calmly talk, but Paul regretted that he could not meet with an old friend and settle all the differences. And exactly one year later, on September 1, 1981, John was killed by his crazy fan in New York.
Marriages
In 1968, McCartney married photographer Linda Eastman. He adopted her daughter Heather, and then they had three more children: Mary (1969), Stela (1971) and James (1977).
In the early spring of 1998, Linda died of breast cancer, according to Paul, they almost did not part with her, it was only once and for only one week.
In 2002, McCartney married the former model Heather Mills, who gave birth to his daughter Beatrice Millie. But in 2006, they divorced, and Paul was forced to pay his ex-wife an amount of 24 million pounds.
In 2011, McCartney married a third time to 47-year-old American Nancy Shevel.
Lennon's death
After the death of the famous singer, Lew Grade offered Lennon's wife Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney to buy back the rights of Lennon-McCartney songs, since they were owned by the Northern Songs publishing company, for 20 million, but Yoko refused because of the very high price.
In 1983, McCartney made friends with Michael Jackson, who eventually bought the rights to the songs of their group for 47.5 million. Paul considered this a betrayal. Now he had to pay for the performance of his own songs on tour.
Many agree that the 2000s finally brought Paul into the life of rebirth, stability and success. Sir James Paul McCartney gives concerts, shoots videos and writes albums, is widely involved in charity work. His name has long been a classic brand that cannot be compared with anything.