PAUL MCCARTNEY
Name: Paul McCartney
Birth name: James Paul McCartney
Born: 18 June 1942 Liverpool, England
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning
English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide
fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon
formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote
some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." After leaving The
Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings
with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney and songwriter/singer, Denny Laine.
He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music;
released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects
to help international charities.
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician
and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100
million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in
history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and
radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell
more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity
single (three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to
do so in 1984 was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants
included McCartney).
His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than three thousand
songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the
publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.
Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter and an advocate
for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns
against landmines, seal culls and Third World debt.
Name: Paul McCartney
Birth name: James Paul McCartney
Born: 18 June 1942 Liverpool, England
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning
English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide
fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon
formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote
some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." After leaving The
Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band Wings
with his first wife, Linda Eastman McCartney and songwriter/singer, Denny Laine.
He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music;
released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects
to help international charities.
McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the most successful musician
and composer in popular music history, with 60 gold discs and sales of 100
million singles. His song "Yesterday" is listed as the most covered song in
history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on American television and
radio. Wings' 1977 single "Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell
more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity
single (three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to
do so in 1984 was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants
included McCartney).
His company MPL Communications owns the copyrights to more than three thousand
songs, including all of the songs written by Buddy Holly, along with the
publishing rights to such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, and Grease.
Aside from his musical work, McCartney is an actor, a painter and an advocate
for animal rights, vegetarianism, and music education; he is active in campaigns
against landmines, seal culls and Third World debt.