Il nome di Macca è stato menzionato "dai suoi colleghi" e Mike Williams, il direttore del settimanale musicale britannico, ha affermato: "Abbiamo parlato con i maggiori musicisti e ci hanno detto tutti: datelo a Paul McCartney, è il più grande compositore del mondo. However, McCartney preferred to learn by ear. Paul McCartney. "Spies Like Us" peaked in the UK at number 13 spending 10 weeks in the charts. He even gave a nod to it by naming his 1993 album Paul is Live. il 4 maggio 2018 viene nominato "compagno d'onore" (Companion of Honour) dalla regina Elisabetta II. [46] Revolver also included McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby", which featured a string octet. [53] As McCartney explained, "We were fed up with being the Beatles. Linda was a big fan of my guitar playing, whereas I've got my doubts. [149][nb 29][nb 30], Starting in 1994, McCartney took a four-year break from his solo career to work on Apple's Beatles Anthology project with Harrison, Starr and Martin. "[232] McCartney stated that for his bassline for "I Saw Her Standing There", he directly quoted Berry's "I'm Talking About You". Il 17 aprile 1998 Linda McCartney muore in seguito all'aggravarsi del cancro che le era stato diagnosticato nel 1995. [283] MacDonald considered the piano part in "Lady Madonna" as reminiscent of Fats Domino, and "Let It Be" as having a gospel rhythm. He expressed concern over both the health impacts of the practice as well as its cruelty to animals. McCartney and Simon performed the first verse of "I've Just Seen a Face" on acoustic guitars, and McCartney later performed "Maybe I'm Amazed". [26][27] Il nome del gruppo diviene infine "The Beatles" mentre si trovavano in tournée ad Amburgo, in Germania. FD06D03721, ¶ 7, 17 March 2008, Mills wins £24m in McCartney divorce deal, He yelled at me, grabbed me by the neck and started choking me - Telegraph, England and Wales High Court (Family Division) Decisions, Former Beatle Linked to Member of M.T.A. [231] When asked why the Beatles did not include Presley on the Sgt. "[298] He quit cannabis in 2015, citing a desire to set a good example for his grandchildren. Segue una lista degli strumenti suonati nel corso degli anni da Paul McCartney: «Penso che ci sia l'urgenza di fermare la terribile fugacità del tempo. Oggi compie gli anni Paul McCartney (ammesso che sia quello vero) Paul McCartney. Per l'occasione, compone una nuova canzone, Freedom, pubblicata qualche mese dopo sul nuovo album pop di inediti (il primo dopo Flaming Pie) intitolato Driving Rain. [289] His other drumming contributions include Paul Jones' rendition of "And the Sun Will Shine" (1968),[290] Steve Miller Band's 1969 tracks "Celebration Song" and "My Dark Hour",[291][292] and "Sunday Rain" from the Foo Fighters' 2017 album Concrete and Gold. L'album ha seguito il canovaccio di McCartney (1970) e McCartney II (1980), in quanto è stato inciso pressoché in solitudine anche se non sono mancate partecipazioni di amici come Ringo Starr, George Martin, Steve Miller, Jeff Lynne e naturalmente della moglie Linda. [160], McCartney did an unannounced performance at the benefit tribute, "Concert for Linda," his wife of 29 years who died a year earlier. Le registrazioni di questa session sono state raccolte in un bootleg album: A Toot and a Snore in '74. Get the best deals on Paul McCartney Memorabilia when you shop the largest online selection at eBay.com. [62][dubious – discuss] In his first creative suggestion after this change of leadership, McCartney proposed that the band move forward on their plans to produce a film for television, which was to become Magical Mystery Tour. 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[419] Starr later commented on working with McCartney: "Paul is the greatest bass player in the world. He's an egomaniac about everything else, but his bass playing he'd always been a bit coy about. Available within forty-five minutes of its recording, hours later it had achieved number one on the UK Official Download Chart. Pepper studio session. James Paul McCartney, nato a Liverpool il 18 giugno 1942, divenuto il leggendario musicista dei Beatles e uno dei migliori compositori di tutti i tempi, con Ringo Starr … [193] He released Kisses on the Bottom, a collection of standards, in February 2012, the same month that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honoured him as the MusiCares Person of the Year, two days prior to his performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Tour dell'anno precedente. This was their last time together. But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn't have any kind of blow-up", he said.[407]. [41] McCartney said of the album, "we'd had our cute period, and now it was time to expand. I didn't tell anybody I painted for 15 years but now I'm out of the closet". Explore upcoming Paul McCartney tour dates, live shows, festival appearances and concerts. Comunque... i Beatles sono stati qualcosa di grande». Starting with the 1967 album Sgt. The group discontinued in April 1981 after Laine quit following disagreements over royalties and salaries. McCartney compare nel Guinness dei primati come uno tra i musicisti e compositori di maggior successo nella storia della musica pop, con 60 dischi d'oro e 100 milioni di singoli venduti. For the New World Tour, Whitten was replaced by drummer. They're not important or famous. Il 9 marzo 2014 Paul annuncia l'intenzione di tornare in tournée nel corso dell'anno, ufficializzando la prima data il 21 aprile 2014 a Santiago in Cile come prosecuzione del suo Out There! "[385] The pair married in March 1969. I due furono tentati di presentarsi allo studio, posto nelle vicinanze della casa di Lennon, ma desistettero per la stanchezza. I 60 dischi d'oro e gli oltre 100 milioni di copie vendute hanno portato un importantissimo contributo all'industria discografica inglese. [22] McCartney received a nickel-plated trumpet from his father for his fourteenth birthday, but when rock and roll became popular on Radio Luxembourg, McCartney traded it for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar, since he wanted to be able to sing while playing. McCartney said of the instrument: "if I had to pick one electric guitar it would be this. He was also influenced by Brian Wilson, as he commented: "because he went to very unusual places". "[387] He added, "We were crazy. "[54], Starting in November 1966, the band adopted an experimental attitude during recording sessions for the album. [55] Their recording of "A Day in the Life" required a forty-piece orchestra, which Martin and McCartney took turns conducting. [91] Music professor and author Vincent Benitez described the track as "symphonic rock at its best". [180][nb 39] The rock album Memory Almost Full followed in 2007. The last telephone conversation I had with him we were still the best of mates. In hindsight... maybe it would have been better for Paul if he had maintained WINGS and Paul McCartney as separate identities. Il primo dei concerti viene realizzato all'interno del Colosseo davanti a soli 300 fortunati spettatori. Come già avvenuto in Flaming Pie, anche in Chaos and Creation McCartney suona praticamente tutti gli strumenti presenti nella registrazione. "[277] MacDonald described "I've Got a Feeling" as a "raunchy, mid-tempo rocker" with a "robust and soulful" vocal performance and "Back in the U.S.S.R." as "the last of [the Beatles'] up-tempo rockers", McCartney's "belting" vocals among his best since "Drive My Car", recorded three years earlier. It was also the longest single released by the band and, at seven minutes eleven seconds, was at that time the longest number one. [276] MacDonald praised the "swinging beat" of the Beatles' twenty-four bar blues song, "She's a Woman" as "the most extreme sound they had manufactured to date", with McCartney's voice "at the edge, squeezed to the upper limit of his chest register and threatening to crack at any moment. The critics would say, 'She's not really playing' or 'Look at her—she's playing with one finger.' Già nel 1966 McCartney è il primo dei quattro a essere coinvolto in progetti al di fuori del gruppo, quando nel 1966 compone la colonna sonora del film The Family Way,[36] che viene in seguito pubblicata in un album omonimo, vincitore dell'Ivor Novello Award per il miglior tema strumentale. [66] McCartney quindi, con la collaborazione del direttore d'orchestra americano Carl Davis scrive la sua prima opera colta: Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. [78] La canzone Yesterday è anch'essa nel Guinness come la canzone più eseguita della storia: più di sette milioni di volte solo nelle TV e nelle radio degli Stati Uniti. He recorded a radio series called Oobu Joobu in 1995 for the American network Westwood One, which he described as "widescreen radio". [225] McCartney's 18th solo album, McCartney III, was released on 18 December via Capitol Records. Nel 2003 la coppia ebbe una figlia, Beatrice. 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Featuring a squirrel whose woodland home is razed by developers, it had been scripted and sketched by McCartney and Dunbar over several years, as an animated film. [428], McCartney was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and again as a solo artist in 1999. 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He looked so beautiful that I made up my mind I would have to pick him up. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2009[update], had sales of 25.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States. He was great, particularly in helping me get rid of my guilt [about wishing I'd been] perfect all the time ... a real bugger. [143], In 1991, McCartney performed a selection of acoustic-only songs on MTV Unplugged and released a live album of the performance titled Unplugged (The Official Bootleg). [342] Arrested again for marijuana possession in 1975 in Los Angeles, Linda took the blame, and the court soon dismissed the charges. L'ultima volta che suonò con Lennon fu nel 1974 (quattro anni dopo lo scioglimento dei Beatles) in una sessione in uno studio di Los Angeles. [410], In 1983, McCartney said: "I would not have been as typically human and standoffish as I was if I knew John was going to die. [35] Following the break-up of the Beatles, McCartney's music continued to be released by Apple Records under the Beatles' 1967 recording contract with EMI which ran until 1976. [16] On 31 October 1956, when McCartney was 14, his mother died of an embolism as a complication of surgery for breast cancer. The wedding was a modest event attended by a group of about 30 relatives and friends. [229], — McCartney on Presley, The Beatles Anthology, 2000, McCartney's earliest musical influences include Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, and Chuck Berry. [35][nb 4] Based on an ink drawing by McCartney, the LP's cover included a collage designed by pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, featuring the Beatles in costume as the Sgt. I due scrivono insieme sette canzoni, distribuite fra il singolo Once Upon a Long Ago (McCartney, 1987), l'album Spike (Costello, 1989) e Flowers in the Dirt (1989). Rolling Stone named it one of the Best Albums of the Year for 1973, and in 1975, Paul McCartney and Wings won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Band on the Run" and Geoff Emerick won the Grammy for Best Engineered Recording for the album. [233], McCartney called Little Richard an idol, whose falsetto vocalisations inspired McCartney's own vocal technique. I wrote something deep and meaningful—which was promptly rejected—and I suppose I have been trying to get my own back ever since". [5] McCartney riceve il battesimo nella fede cattolica, ma riceve un'educazione laica: la madre era cattolica e il padre un protestante diventato in seguito agnostico. L'8 settembre 2012 è stato decorato con la Legion d'Onore nel salone dell'Eliseo, a Parigi, dal Capo dello Stato francese François Hollande «per l'intera sua opera», ha dichiarato l'Eliseo in una breve nota. [19][nb 1] When McCartney was 11, his father encouraged him to audition for the Liverpool Cathedral choir, but he was not accepted. It just doesn't seem right—the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't harm sentient beings ... Oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak. It is cruel and unnecessary and will lose them support from ordinary people and animal lovers like myself. [435], "Yesterday" is one of the most covered songs in history with more than 2,200 recorded versions, and according to the BBC, "the track is the only one by a UK writer to have been aired more than seven million times on American TV and radio and is third in the all-time list ... [and] is the most played song by a British writer [last] century in the US". [358] In 2006, the McCartneys travelled to Prince Edward Island to raise international awareness of seal hunting. [110], In 1980, McCartney released his second solo LP, the self-produced McCartney II, which peaked at number one in the UK and number three in the US. He added that "every love song I write is for Linda. Il lavoro è una sorta di "piccola enciclopedia" dell'intera produzione di McCartney che riesce a passare indifferentemente da ballate rock (Young Boy, Used to Be Bad) a brani con orchestra (Beautiful Night) fino a escursioni folk (Calico Skies). Soon after, the couple became outspoken animal rights activists. L'album, intitolato semplicemente McCartney, è una sorta di LP "fatto in casa", che offre diversi brani scritti all'epoca dei Beatles ma mai incisi sugli album del gruppo, tra i quali spiccano Maybe I'm Amazed e Junk. The tension grew during the recording of their eponymous double album, also known as the "White Album". He has retained that original guitar to the present day. at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962. [40] Nel marzo del 1969 McCartney sposa la fotografa americana Linda Eastman, già divorziata e con una figlia. [305] In October 2000, McCartney's art debuted in his hometown of Liverpool. But when I met him the fascination faded fast, and I found it was Paul I liked. McCartney earned his latest UK number one as of 2014[update] with the title track of his LP release that year, "Pipes of Peace". [264][265] He was ranked the 11th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone,[266] voted the 8th greatest singer ever by NME readers[267] and number 10 by Music Radar readers in the list of "the 30 greatest lead singers of all time". In 2009, he performed three sold-out concerts at the newly built Citi Field, a venue constructed to replace Shea Stadium in Queens, New York. [333], McCartney first used drugs in the Beatles' Hamburg days when they often used Preludin to maintain their energy while performing for long periods. 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McCartney then joined the choir at St Barnabas' Church, Mossley Hill. I think there's an urge in us to stop the terrible fleetingness of time. This section is about social and other general interactions. "Hey Jude" was covered by several prominent artists, including. 18 giugno 1942, Liverpool. Tra il 1962 e il 1970 McCartney pubblica con i Beatles 24 singoli e 13 album, oltre ad altre pubblicazioni per il mercato americano. [311] In 2018, he wrote the children's book Hey Grandude! Sebbene promuovesse l'album Flowers in the Dirt, nei 104 concerti tenuti in Europa (tra cui alcune date in Italia), America e Giappone, incluse numerose canzoni dei Beatles, per la prima volta dall'avvio della sua carriera solista. The couple debated with Danny Williams, Newfoundland's then Premier, on Larry King Live, stating that fishermen should stop hunting seals and start seal-watching businesses instead. [34][nb 2] McCartney co-wrote (with Lennon) several of their early hits, including "I Saw Her Standing There", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1963) and "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964). He played to over 100,000 people during two performances in Mexico City in May, with the shows grossing nearly $6 million. McCartney ha poi realizzato Rushes I e II (1997-1998), due progetti sperimentali sotto lo pseudonimo The Fireman che avrebbe dovuto tenerne nascosta l'identità. [32] È Epstein a ottenere un contratto di registrazione per il gruppo con la Parlophone nel maggio del 1962, dopo che Best è sostituito alla batteria da Starr.[33]. He often chose clothes and makeup for her, encouraging her to grow her hair out like Brigitte Bardot's, and at least once insisting she have it restyled, to disappointing effect.