Mike McGear

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Peter Michael McCartney (born 7 January 1944), also known as Mike McGear, is a British-born experimental artist and rock photographer who worked with the artists The Scaffold and Grimms.

He is Paul McCartney's younger brother.

Early years

Michael and his brother Paul were both born in Walton, England, where their mother, Mary McCartney, had previously worked as a caretaker in charge of the maternity ward. Michael was not accepted in a Catholic school because his father, Jim McCartney, felt that they leaned too much toward religion rather than education. McCartney started his first job at Jackson's Tailors in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool, at age 17. He undertook an apprenticeship at Andre Bernard, a ladies' hairdresser, in the same street, a year after.

Personal life

Ruth, Jim McCartney's sister, was also adopted by the McCartney brothers when they married her mother Angela Williams in 1964. In 1968, McCartney married Angela Fishwick. They divorced later in life. Benna, Theran, and Abigail Faith are among their three children. Joshua, Max, and Sonny were born later in life.

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Musical career

Mike McCartney was working as an apprentice hairdresser when the Beatles were successful. Mike used to be a hairdresser alongside future actor Lewis Collins. However, he was also a member of the Liverpool comedy-poetry-music band The Scaffold, which included Roger McGough and John Gorman, and had formed in 1962 (the year of the Beatles' first appearance). Mike decided to use a stage name so as not to appear to be riding his brother's coattails. After first blaming himself "Mike Blank," he settled on "Mike McGear," which is the Liverpudlian equivalent of "fab." The band was later signed to Parlophone.

The Scaffold released a number of UK hit singles between 1966 and 1974, the most popular of which being 1968's Christmas number one single, "Lily the Pink." "Thank You Very Much," McGear's 1967 hit "Thank You Very Much." He and McGough released a "duo" album (McGough & McGear) in 1968 that contained the standard Scaffold mix of songs, poems, and comedies. Score with the Scaffold, a TV show that limited the musical portion of their career, was dropped by Parlophone. McGear signed to Island Records and released Woman in 1972, which also featured several songs co-written with McGough, and The Scaffold's own album, Fresh Liver, followed.

On Island in 1973 as Grimms (an acronym for Gorman-Roberts-McGear-McGough-Stanshall), the Scaffold later included several others and released two albums. McGear resigned from Grimms after the second album due to internal friction between himself and one of the group's writers.

McGear's second non-comedy musical album, McGear, was released in 1974 by Warner Bros. Records, where he performed with his brother Paul and Paul's band Wings. Though four singles were released from these sessions, only "Leave It" enjoyed any moderate chart success (No. 1). There are 36 countries in the United Kingdom. However, "Liverpool Lou," a Scaffold "reunion" song that became The Scaffold's last top-ten hit during McCartney's appearances with Wings, was also recorded during McCartney's session with Wings. This culminated in the company's re-birth in 1974, and the company continued to tour and perform together through 1977.

McGear has only released a few more singles. "No Lar Di Dar (Is Lady Di)" was his final release, although also using the name Mike McGear. This was a satirical tribute to Lady Diana Spencer, who was due to marrying Prince Charles at the time of her marriage.

Mike McCartney, who had left music, decided to stop using the "McGear" pseudonym and revert to using his family name.

Photographic career

McCartney was a photographer throughout his entire career and has been interested in photography ever since. In the early 1960s, Beatles boss Brian Epstein dubbed him "Flash Harry" because he was always shooting with a flash gun. He has published books of photographs he took of the Beatles backstage and on tour, and in 2008, he released a limited edition book of photographs that he had taken spontaneously backstage at Live8. McCartney's Liverpool Life," a collection of photographs from the 1960s, was on display in Liverpool and other locations, including the Provincial Museum of Alberta. In addition, a collection's exhibition book was published. In 2005, Paul McCartney's solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard was also shot on location.

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