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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with Lennon is one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career, later forming Wings with his first wife, Linda, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
Guinness World Records described McCartney as the "most successful composer and recording artist of all time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 millionsingles, and as the "most successful songwriter" in United Kingdom chart history.[1] More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song "Yesterday", more than any other song in history. Wings' 1977 release "Mull of Kintyre" is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in March 1999, McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2013 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States.
McCartney has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, landmines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education. McCartney has married three times and is the father of five children.McCartney was born on 18 June 1942, in Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary (née Mohin), had qualified to practise as a nurse. His father, James ("Jim") McCartney, was absent from his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer firefighter during World War II.[2] Paul has one younger brother, Michael (born 7 January 1944). Though the children were baptised in their mother's Roman Catholic faith, their father, a former Protestant turned agnostic, felt Catholic schools sacrificed the education of their students for the sake of their religious teachings, so he and Mary did not emphasise religion in the household.[3]
McCartney had attended Stockton Wood Road Primary School from 1947 until 1949, when he transferred to Joseph Williams Junior School due to overcrowding at Stockton.[4] In 1953, he passed the 11-plus exam, with only three others out of ninety examinees, gaining admission to the Liverpool Institute.[5] In 1954, he met schoolmate George Harrison on the bus to the Institute from his suburban home in Speke. Harrison had also passed the exam, meaning he could attend a grammar school rather than a secondary modern school, where most pupils went until becoming eligible to work. The two quickly became friends; McCartney later admitted: "I tended to talk down to him, because he was a year younger."[6]
As the
family's primary wage earner, Mary's income as a midwife had enabled them to
move into 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, where they lived until 1964.[7] She
rode a bicycle to her patients; McCartney described an early memory of her
leaving at "about three in the morning [the] streets ... thick with
snow".[8] On 31 October 1956, when McCartney was fourteen, his mother died
of an embolism.[9] McCartney's loss later became a point of connection with
John Lennon, whose mother, Julia, had died when he was seventeen.[10]
A trumpet
player and pianist who led Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s, McCartney's father
kept an upright piano in the front room, and he encouraged his sons to be
musical.[11][nb 1] Jim gave Paul a nickel-plated trumpet for his fourteenth
birthday, but when rock and roll became popular on Radio Luxembourg, Paul
traded it for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar, rationalising that
it would be difficult to sing while playing a trumpet.[14] He found it
difficult to play guitar right-handed, but after noticing a poster advertising
a Slim Whitman concert and realising that Whitman also played left-handed, he
reversed the order of the strings.[15] McCartney wrote his first song, "I
Lost My Little Girl", on the Zenith, and composed another early tune that
would become "When I'm Sixty-Four" on the piano. Against his father's
advice, he took few piano lessons, preferring to learn by ear.[16] Heavily
influenced by American rhythm and bluesmusic, Little Richard was his schoolboy
idol. "Long Tall Sally" was the first song McCartney performed in
public, at a Butlins holiday camp talent competition.[17]
jonh John
Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December
1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame
as a founder member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and
critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. With Paul McCartney,
he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th
century.
Born and
raised in Liverpool, as a teenager Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze;
his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. As the group
disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career
that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and
Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and
"Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his
name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in
1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in
1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its
release.
Lennon
revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings,
on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace
activism, he moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam
War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport
him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2012,
Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as
writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on
the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him
eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all
time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987
and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in lennonRingo starrRichard Starkey,
MBE (born 7 July 1940), known as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer
and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He sang
lead vocals on several of their songs, including "With a Little Help from
My Friends", "Yellow Submarine" and their version of "Act
Naturally". He is also credited as a co-writer of "What Goes
On", "Flying" and "Dig It", and as the sole author of
"Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".1994.
He was
twice afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during his childhood, and as a
result of the related prolonged hospitalisations, he fell behind his peers
scholastically. At age eight, he had remained illiterate: his classmates
nicknamed him "Lazarus" after a twelve-month recovery from peritonitis
following a routine appendectomy. After several years of twice weekly tutoring
he had nearly caught up to his peers academically, but in 1953, he contracted
tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where he remained for two years.
Following his return he entered the workforce, but lacking motivation and
discipline, his initial attempts at gainful employment proved unsuccessful. He
briefly held a position with the British Rail then as anapprentice machinist at
a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. Soon after, he became interested in the UK
skiffle craze, developing a fervent admiration for the genre. He cofounded his
first group, the Eddie Clayton band in 1957, and they had earned several
prestigious local bookings before the fad succumbed to American rock and roll
by early 1958.
When the
Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another leading Liverpool group,
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. After achieving moderate success in the UK and
Hamburg, Germany with the Hurricanes, he joined the Beatles in August 1962,
replacing Pete Best. Starr's creative contribution to their music has received
high praise from drummers such as Steve Smith, who said that Starr
"brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the
drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect ... [he] composed
unique, stylistic drum parts for the Beatles' songs".[1] In 2011 Rolling
Stone readers named him the fifth-greatest drummer of all-time.
A
critically acclaimed actor, Starr played key roles in the Beatles' films and
appeared in numerous others. After their break-up in 1970, he released several
successful singles and albums and recorded with each of the former Beatles. He
has been featured in a number of documentaries, hosted television shows,
narrated the first two seasons of the children's television seriesThomas the
Tank Engine & Friends and portrayed "Mr Conductor" during the
first season of the PBS children's television series Shining Time Station.
Since 1989, Starr has toured with twelve variations of Ringo Starr & His
All-Starr Band.
He was
twice afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during his childhood, and as a
result of the related prolonged hospitalisations, he fell behind his peers
scholastically. At age eight, he had remained illiterate: his classmates
nicknamed him "Lazarus" after a twelve-month recovery from
peritonitis following a routine appendectomy. After several years of twice
weekly tutoring he had nearly caught up to his peers academically, but in 1953,
he contracted tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where he remained
for two years. Following his return he entered the workforce, but lacking
motivation and discipline, his initial attempts at gainful employment proved
unsuccessful. He briefly held a position with the British Rail then as
anapprentice machinist at a Liverpool equipment manufacturer. Soon after, he
became interested in the UK skiffle craze, developing a fervent admiration for
the genre. He cofounded his first group, the Eddie Clayton band in 1957, and
they had earned several prestigious local bookings before the fad succumbed to
American rock and roll by early 1958.
When the
Beatles formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another leading Liverpool group,
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. After achieving moderate success in the UK and
Hamburg, Germany with the Hurricanes, he joined the Beatles in August 1962,
replacing Pete Best. Starr's creative contribution to their music has received
high praise from drummers such as Steve Smith, who said that Starr
"brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the
drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect ... [he] composed
unique, stylistic drum parts for the Beatles' songs".[1] In 2011 Rolling
Stone readers named him the fifth-greatest drummer of all-time.
A
critically acclaimed actor, Starr played key roles in the Beatles' films and
appeared in numerous others. After their break-up in 1970, he released several
successful singles and albums and recorded with each of the former Beatles. He
has been featured in a number of documentaries, hosted television shows,
narrated the first two seasons of the children's television seriesThomas the
Tank Engine & Friends and portrayed "Mr Conductor" during the
first season of the PBS children's television series Shining Time Station.
Since 1989, Starr has toured with twelve variations of Ringo Starr & His
All-Starr Band.
Abbey Road is the 11th 
Magical Mystery Tour is a 
Anthology 2 is a 
Anthology 3 is a 
Help! is the fifth British and tenth North American album by 
Let It Be es el último 
Live at the BBC es un 
Please Please Me fue el primer 
Revolver es el séptimo 