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    Paul McCartney and His Remarkable Career
    Paul McCartney and His Remarkable Career
    Paul McCartney and His Remarkable Career
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    Paul McCartney and His Remarkable Career

    By Diane Lemertz

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    Paul McCartney is one of the most successful musicians and composers in the history of pop music. Most famous for his time in The Beatles, Paul has released sixty gold discs and has sold over 100 million singles. McCartney began writing songs in his early teens. He met John Lennon and the Quarrymen at the age of fifteen and soon joined the band, which was then re-named, The Beatles. Between 1960 and the band's breakup in 1970, McCartney performed on twelve studio albums and wrote or co-wrote some of the most popular songs in pop music history, including "Yesterday," which is the most-covered song in the world and has been played over seven million times on American television and radio. After 1970, McCartney pursued a solo career, as well as with the band Wings from 1971 to 1981; he has released twenty-two studio pop albums and five classical albums since the breakup of the Beatles.
    McCartney is also known for his political and social activism.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateMay 22, 2014
    ISBN9781304904492
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      Early Life

      Sir James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England, to Mary and James McCartney. His mother was a maternity nurse, and his father a cotton salesman and jazz pianist with a local band. The young McCartney was raised in a traditional working-class family, much the same as his future fellow Beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Tragically, when McCartney was only 14 years old, his mother died of complications after a mastectomy. His future band mate, John Lennon, also lost his mother at a young age—a connection that McCartney would later point to as the start of a close bond between the two musicians.

      Encouraged by his father to try out multiple musical instruments, Paul McCartney began his lifelong love affair with music at an early age. Though he took formal music lessons as a boy, the future star preferred to learn by ear, teaching him the Spanish guitar, trumpet and piano. In 1957, the teenaged musician met John Lennon at a church festival where both young men were performing. Sensing an early affinity, McCartney joined Lennon's band, the Quarrymen. The two quickly became the group's songwriters, ushering it through many name changes and a few personnel changes as well.

      The Beatles

      By 1960, the group had settled on a new moniker, the Beatles, and George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best rounded out the group. The soon-to-be legendary mod squad started out in the 1960s in Hamburg, Germany, spending two years playing various nightclubs there. Sutcliffe soon left the band, leaving McCartney to pick up the slack as the group's bass player. While in Hamburg, the Beatles recorded their first tracks, garnering the attention of Brian Epstein, who quickly signed on as the band's manager. It wasn't long before the Beatles headed back to their home country and began working their way into the popular consciousness there. And Best's replacement by drummer Ringo Starr only helped the group gain steam.

      The impact that the Beatles would ultimately have on '60s popular culture is hard to overstate. Beatlemania soon gripped the world, and when the group made their debut in America, the media dubbed the period of musical crossover between the two nations the British Invasion. Little could they know at the time, this era would truly have a lasting impact on rock 'n' roll.

      During a decade full of political and social strife, the Beatles expressed the broader hopes of their contemporaries for peace, love and rock 'n' roll. McCartney in particular would write more hits for the band than any other member. Songs like Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Yellow Submarine and Hello, Goodbye would provide the soundtrack for a generation.

      From 1962 to '70, the group released 12 hit studio albums, touring almost constantly, before disbanding.

      Solo Career

      The Beatles

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