Mccartney paul biography bible
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Paul McCartney was a singer and multi-instrumentalist in The Beatles. Alongside John Lennon, he was half of one of the worlds most successful songwriting teams in history.
Paul was one of the most innovative bass players that ever played bass, and half the stuff thats going on now is directly ripped off from his Beatles period. He was coy about his bass playing. Hes an egomaniac about everything else, but his bass playing he was always a bit coy about. He is a great musician who plays the bass like few other people could play it.
John Lennon,
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
The early years
James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpools Walton Hospital on 18 June His father Jim worked in the cotton trade and played trumpet and piano in jazz and ragtime bands, and his mother Mary worked as a midwife.
Paul attended the Stockton Wood Road primary school, then went on to the Joseph Williams junior school before passing his 11 Plus in and gaining a place at the Liverp
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"I don't remember that. I think I would have remembered that. He was the kind of guy that could do that. I don't remember him actually ever doing it. I mean, on the Sgt. Pepper cover he wanted Jesus Christ and Hitler on there. That was, 'Okay, that's John.' You'd have to talk him down a bit—'No, probably not Hitler…' inom could say to him, 'No, we're not doing that.' He was a good enough guy to know when he was being told."
Did he have a rationalization for why it was a good idea to put Hitler on there?
"No. It's a laugh. We're putting famous people on the cover: 'Hitler! He's famous!' And it was like, 'Yeah, but John, we're ansträngande to put heroes on the cover, and he's not your hero. Winston Churchill's your hero, John.' He was a big fan of Winston. So he was just fucking about. That was John. He was very witty, very wonderful, and would like to push the enve
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Paul McCartney was born on 18 June
James Paul McCartney was born at Liverpool Walton Hospital. His mother Mary had previously worked there as a nurse in the maternity ward.
He looked awful. I couldnt get over it. Horrible. He had one eye open, and he just squawked all the time. They held him up and he looked like a piece of red meat. When I got home I cried, the first time for years and years.But the next day, he looked more human. He turned out a lovely baby in the end.
Jim McCartney
In McCartney began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary school, before moving on to Joseph Williams Junior School. He passed his 11 Plus exam in and attained a place at the Liverpool Institute.
In , while riding on the bus to the Institute, he met George Harrison, who lived nearby.
The following year the McCartneys moved to 20 Forthlin Road, now owned by the National Trust.
On 31 October Mary McCartney died of an embolism following a mastectomy. She had been suffering from breast cance