Jim McCartney used to point out the bass parts in songs on the radio, and often took his son to local brass band concerts. His father, Joe McCartney, played an E-flat tuba. He kept an upright piano in the front room that he purchased from Epstein's North End Music Stores. McCartney's father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s and encouraged his son to be musical. The loss of his mother at fourteen was later a point of relation with John Lennon, whose mother Julia also died when he was young, after being struck by a car when he was seventeen. On 31 October 1956, when he was fourteen, his mother died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer. Paul was the first member of his family to own a car and his mother rode a bicycle to houses where she worked as a midwife he describes an early memory of her leaving at "about three in the morning" the "streets . In 1955 the McCartneys moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, where they lived through 1964. Ģ0 Forthlin Road now attracts large numbers of tourists. In 1954, while taking the bus from his home in the suburb of Speke to the Institute, he met George Harrison, who had also passed the exam, meaning they could both go to a grammar school rather than a secondary modern school, which the majority of pupils attended until they were eligible to work. However, when he took his A-level exams at age nineteen, he passed only one subject – Art. In 1947 he began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary School, by 1952 Joseph Williams Junior School, where he passed the 11-plus exam in 1953 with three others out of ninety examinees, thus gaining admission to the Liverpool Institute. McCartney has one brother, Michael, born 7 January 1944, and though they were baptised in their mother's Roman Catholic faith, "religion did not play a part in their upbringing" according to biographer Barry Miles, as McCartney's father was a Protestant turned agnostic. His father James, or "Jim" McCartney, was absent at his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer fire fighter during World War II. McCartney was born in Walton Hospital in Liverpool England, where his mother, Mary (née Mohin), had twelve years earlier, "satisfied her state registry requirements" for nursing, writes Beatles biographer Bob Spitz. He has been married three times and is the father of five children. He is one of the UK's wealthiest people, with an estimated fortune of £475 million in 2010. His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than 25,000 songs, including those written by Buddy Holly, as well as the publishing rights to the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease. He has taken part in projects to help international charities, and has been an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education he has been active in campaigns against landmines and seal hunting, and supported efforts such as Make Poverty History. He has composed film scores, classical and electronic music, and released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States. Wings' 1977 release, " Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.Īccording to the BBC, his Beatles song " Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists-more than any other song. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Wings, The Fireman, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine Hear, Apple, Parlophone, Capitol, Columbia, Concord, EMI, One Little Indian, Vee-Jay Vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, drums, ukulele, mandolin, recorder Musician, composer, music producer, film producer, businessman
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