About Sir, James Paul

Sir James Paul McCartney, born June 18, 1942was popularly known as one of the lead vocalist & bassist of THE BEATLESafter leaving The Beatles, he launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wingshe has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic musicproactive in advocating animal rights, vegetarianism, and music educationhave been taking part in projects to help international charitiesInstruments PlayedBass, Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Drums, MandolinBeatles Era...He met John Lennon and the Quarrymen at the Woolton on 6 July 1957He & John wrote & collaborated on many songsPaul introduced George Harrison to John as to be the lead guitarist, though John refuses to, because of his young age, but he was convinced upon hearing George playTogether w/ Stuart Sutcliffe on bass & Pete Best on drums they formed the Silver BeetlesLater on he suggested the dismissal of Sutcliffe, due to his lack of musical ability playing the bassDuring their tour in Hamburg Sutcliffe left the band after the end of their contract, so Paul reluctantly took over bassThat time he bought a "now famous" Höfner bassWhen Brian Epstein managed the band he removed Pete Best in the line-up, and was replaced by Ringo StarrAnd the rest was history, they’ve made a remarkable performance all around the worldThey stopped touring after their last concert at Candlestick Park, SF, August 29, 1966So tired of the road tours, playing was not exciting anymore, they have the money anyway, though realizing its very unfair to the fans the band did quit playing publicThe Beatles concentrated more on recordingWhen Brian Epstein died Sir Paul made an attempt to be the leader of the bandThough his bandmates had not felt the same as his good intentionsHe should had lead the band not made the band his back, that was John pointed outThe band is collapsing, complications between ideas was evident, different musical influences building upSir Paul was more on the pop side, John was more experimental, George was in love with Indian music,and as for Ringo getting tired of being the last to askSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, & Let It Be, was the result of their unstable studio campaignSir Paul persuaded the band to go public again, but the band showed no interest, specially GeorgeBut after long bloody discussions during filming "Let It Be" the band agreed to do soJanuary 30, 1969 they played on the rooftop of the Apple Building, it was the last time that the fabfour played publicAfterwards, sadly as expected The Beatles breakupIt was explained that all this time they knew it, but hardly cant accept the factIt was John who took the initiative to do so, he quit, and was followed by the othersEasy as for John, but Paul was impaired, he misses the band, specially JohnSir Paul took a break in Scotland, pounding his thoughts, and did soon realized its really overThough as agreed by the band, that the breakup was not meant to be proclaim for the publicSir Paul still publicly announced The Beatles' breakup on April 10,1970And so The Beatles ended up their campaign, and each concentrated with their own solo albumsBut In 1995, Paul, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr reunited & released the first of the Beatles' Anthology albumsfree as a bird...Paul released his debut solo album "McCartney" on April 1970Wings was formed in 1971 together w/ his wife LindaIn 1980 he released "McCartney II" playing every instrument in itHe wrote and starred in the 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street, featuring the soundtrack "No More Lonely Nights" it reached # 1 in the UK Charts, but the film did not do wellPaul released many albums and never failed to top the chartsIf I Fell...Paul met and fell in love with Linda Eastman, a photojournalist; they were married in 1969He adopted Linda's daughter, and they went on to have three other children togetherLinda died in 1998 after a long fight w/ her breast cancerHe re-married himself in June 2002 to Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner, eventually in 2006 the couple broke-upThey were divorce in March 2008 and Heather was awarded almost $50 million!!!Paul's ParentsMary Patricia Mohin (Deceased 1956) James "Jim" McCartneyPaul's Children:12/31/1962 Heather Louise See-McCartney (adopted her after his marriage to Linda)08/28/1969 Mary Anna McCartney-Donald (Mother: Linda)09/13/1971 Stella Nina McCartney-Willis (Mother: Linda)09/12/1977 James Louis McCartney (Mother: Linda)10/28/2003 Beatrice Milly McCartney (Mother