Paul McCartney

Rock Singer

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom on June 18th, 1942 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 81, Paul McCartney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
James Paul McCartney, Macca
Date of Birth
June 18, 1942
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Age
81 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Networth
$1.2 Billion
Profession
Actor, Bass-guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, Film Producer, Film Score Composer, Guitarist, Lyricist, Painter, Pianist, Recording Artist, Screenwriter, Singer, Singer-songwriter
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Paul McCartney Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 81 years old, Paul McCartney has this physical status:

Height
180cm
Weight
75kg
Hair Color
Black (Natural)
Eye Color
Green
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Paul McCartney Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Agnosticism
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Joseph Williams Junior School
Paul McCartney Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Nancy Shevell
Children
5, including Heather, Mary, Stella and James
Dating / Affair
Graciela Borges, Julie Arthur, Winona Williams, Thelma Pickles, Dot Rhone, Cory Sentrop, Anita Cochrane, Erika Hubers, Iris Caldwell, Sandra Cogan, Peggy Lipton, Jane Asher, Gloria Mackh, Maggie McGivern, Julie Felix, Linda Eastman (1967-1998), Elisabeth Aronsson (1967), Francie Schwartz, Jill Haworth (1971), Bernardette Farrell, Heather Mills (1999-2008), Elle Macpherson, Tanya Larrigan (2007), Rosanna Arquette (2007), Sabrina Guinness, Christie Brinkley (2007), Renée Zellweger, Nancy Shevell (2007-Present)
Parents
Jim McCartney, Mary Patricia
Siblings
Peter Michael “Mike McGear” McCartney (Younger Brother) (Singer, Musician, Rock Photographer)
Other Family
Ruth McCartney (Step-Sister), Benna Faith (Niece), Theran Faith (Niece), Abigail Faith (Niece), Rowena Horne (Sister-in-Law), Joshua (Nephew), Max (Nephew), Sonny (Nephew), Joseph McCartney (Paternal Grandfather), Margaret Florence Clegg (Paternal Grandmother), Owen Mohan/Mohin (Maternal Grandfather), Mary Theresa Danher (Maternal Grandmother), James McCartney (Paternal Great-Grandfather), Elizabeth Williams (Paternal Great-Grandmother), Paul Clegg (Paternal Great-Grandfather), Jane Claque/Clague (Paternal Great-Grandmother), Owen Mohan (Maternal Great-Grandfather), Mary McGeogh (Maternal Great-Grandmother), John Danher (Maternal Great-Grandfather), Jane Baines (Maternal Great-Grandmother), Angela Williams (Step-Mother)
Paul McCartney Life

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, guitarist, producer, and film director who rose to international prominence as a co-lead vocalist and bassist for the Beatles.

His songwriting partnership with John Lennon is one of the most lucrative in history.

Since the band disbanded in 1970, he pursued a successful solo career and formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Laine and Denny Laine. McCartney, a self-taught musician, is an excellent bass, guitar, keyboards, and drums.

He is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing (mainly playing with a plectrum), his versatile and broad tenor vocal range (spanning over four octaves), and his eclecticism (exploring styles ranging from pre-rock and roll pop to classical and electronica).

McCartney began his career as a member of the Quarrymen in 1957, which developed into the Beatles in 1960.

Sgt's debut in 1967 was the first album to be on display.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, who later became the Beatles' de facto king, gave the Beatles the creative inspiration for the majority of their music and film projects.

More than 2,200 artists have covered "Yesterday" (1965), making it one of the most widely covered songs in popular music history. McCartney debuted as a solo artist with the album McCartney in 1970.

He toured Wings, one of the decade's most popular bands, with more than a dozen international top ten singles and albums released.

In 1980, McCartney resumed his solo career.

He has performed regularly as a solo artist since 1989, and the Fireman with Youth of Killing Joke formed in 1993.

He has been involved with efforts to support international charities focusing on topics including animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education. McCartney is one of the most popular composers and performers of all time.

He has written or co-written 32 songs that have reached the top of the charts. As of 2009, there were 25.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States, with 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and 25.5 million in the United States.

Two inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (both as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1999) have been honoured, along with an induction into the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a knighthood in 1997 for services to music.

He is also one of the world's richest musicians, with an estimated fortune of $730 million as of 2015.

Early life

James Paul McCartney was born on June 18th, 1942 at Walton Hospital in Liverpool's Walton neighborhood, where his mother, Mary Patricia (née Mohin), had registered to work as a nurse. Due to his service as a volunteer firefighter during World War II, his father, James ("Jim") McCartney, was unable to attend his son's birth. Both of his parents were of Irish descent. Peter Michael McCartney's younger brother and Ruth's younger sister, Ruth, were born to his father's second wife Angie during her first marriage. Even though Paul and Michael were baptized in their mother's Catholic faith, their father was a former Protestant who had turned agnostic. In the household, religion was not emphasized.

McCartney's parents came from the "lowest rungs of the profession," according to his biographer Peter Ames Carlin, but they had no upward mobility in their lifetimes. Jim had worked with cotton merchants A. Hannay and Co. before the war; although he was promoted from his job as a sample boy in their factory, Hannay's defense engineering divisions was deployed at night; Jim was sent home as a lathe turner. The growing family was relocated to a house in Knowsley in 1944 and then in a Speke council housing project in 1946. Jim returned to work at the cotton merchants after the war, but with a reduced income. Mary's time as a visiting midwife was much more rewarding.

Before 1942, McCartney attended Stockton Wood Road Primary School in Speke, until he enrolled in Joseph Williams Junior School in Belle Vale due to overcrowding at Stockton. He was one of only three students out of 90 to pass the 11-Plus exam in 1953, meaning he could attend the Liverpool Institute, a grammar school rather than a secondary modern school. He met schoolmate George Harrison on the bus from his suburban home in Speke in 1954. The two became close friends quickly; McCartney later confessed, "I used to talk down to him because he was a year younger."

Mary McCartney, the family's primary wage earner, was a midwife and the family's primary wage earner, and her earnings enabled them to move to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, where they lived until 1964. McCartney recalled an early memory of her leaving at "about three a.m. [the] streets were] thick with snow." When McCartney was 14 years old, his mother died of an embolism as a result of breast cancer surgery. McCartney's death developed into a friendship with John Lennon, whose mother, Julia, died when he was 17 years old.

McCartney's father, a trumpet player and pianist, was a member of Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s. He had an upright piano in the front room, encouraged his sons to be dramatic, and recommended that McCartney take piano lessons. McCartney, on the other hand, preferred to learn by ear. When McCartney was 11, his father advised him to audition for the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, but he was refused. McCartney later joined the choir at St Barnabas' Church, Mossley Hill. McCartney received a nickel-plated trumpet from his father for his fourteenth birthday, but McCartney traded it for a £15 Framus Zenith (model 17) acoustic guitar because he wanted to perform while playing. He found it difficult to play guitar right-handed, but after noticing a poster advertising a Slim Whitman performance and discovering that Whitman played left-handed, he rescheduled the order of the strings. On the Zenith, McCartney wrote his first song, "I Lost My Little Girl," and he wrote another early song, "When I'm Sixty-Four" on the piano. Little Richard was his schoolboy idol, and McCartney's "Long Tall Sally" was the first song McCartney performed in public at a Butlin's Filey holiday camp talent competition; he was influenced by American rhythm and blues;

Personal life

McCartney thrived at art exhibits during his time in college, winning top awards for his drawing. However, his lack of discipline had a negative impact on his academic results, preventing him from pursuing art college. He delves into the visual arts, explored experimental cinema, and attended film, musical, and classical music performances during the 1960s. Artist John Dunbar, who introduced McCartney to art dealer Robert Fraser, was his first encounter with the London avant-garde scene. At Fraser's apartment he first learned about art appreciation and met Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Blake, and Richard Hamilton. McCartney later purchased Magritte's work, whose painting of an apple influenced the Apple Records logo. McCartney was instrumental in the inception and publicizing of the Indica Gallery in Mason's Yard, London, which Barry Miles co-founded and where Lennon first encountered Yoko Ono. Miles also co-founded International Times, an underground newspaper that McCartney helped to launch with direct financial assistance and by conducting interviews to drum up advertiser revenue. Many Years From Now, Miles later wrote McCartney's official biography, Many Years from Now (1997).

After seeing artist Willem de Kooning's artwork in de Kooning's Long Island studio, McCartney became interested in painting. McCartney began painting in 1983, and in 1999, he first exhibited his work in Siegen, Germany. Portraits of Lennon, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie were included in the 70-painting exhibit. Though initially reluctant to show his works publicly, McCartney chose the gallery because events organiser Wolfgang Suttner expressed genuine concern in McCartney's art. At the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, England, the first UK exhibition of McCartney's paintings opened in September 2000, with 500 canvases on display. McCartney's art debuted in his hometown of Liverpool in October 2000. "I've been invited an exhibition of my paintings at the Walker Art Gallery, where John and I spent many a pleasant afternoon." So I'm super excited about it. I didn't tell anyone I painted for 15 years, but now I'm out of the closet." McCartney is the lead patron of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a school in the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, which was once occupied by the Liverpool Institute for Boys.

When McCartney was a boy, his mother read him poems and encouraged him to read books. Paul and his brother Michael were encouraged by his father to solve crosswords with him in order to raise their "word power," McCartney said. McCartney's 2001 Blackbird Singing, a collection of poems and lyrics to his songs for which he gave readings in Liverpool and New York City. "I was a child when I was a boy... he writes in the book's foreword. "I was a teenager..." I had a burning desire to have a poem published in the school magazine. I wrote something deep and meaningful, but it was quickly rejected — and I suspect I've been trying to get my own back ever since." Faber & Faber's first children's book was published in 2005, entitled An Urban Furry Tail, a collaboration with writer Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar, which was published in the Clouds. The squirrel's woodland home has been razed by developers, and McCartney and Dunbar's animation of it has been planned and sketched by McCartney and Dunbar over the years as an animated film. It was described as a "anti-capitalist children's book" by the Observer. He wrote the children's book Hey Grandude in 2018. Random House Books' September 2019 published illustrator Kathryn Durst together with illustrator Kathryn Durst. The book is about a grandpa and his three children with a mystic compass on an adventure. In September 2021, a sequel to Grandude's Green Submarine was published.

McCartney asked Geoff Dunbar to direct Rupert and the Frog Song, a short animated film; McCartney was the writer and producer, and he also added some of the character voices. The film's soundtrack song "We All Stand Together" reached No. 1. In the UK Singles Chart, there are three players. He worked with Dunbar on an animated film about French artist Honoré Daumier's career, which earned them a BAFTA award. They appeared on the animated short film Tropic Island Hum in 2004. In the United Kingdom, the accompanying single, "Tropic Island Hum"/"We All Stand Together," debuted at number 21.

McCartney also produced and hosted The Real Buddy Holly Story, a 1985 film starring interviews with Keith Richards, Phil and Don Everly, the Holly family, and others. He appeared on "Lisa the Vegetarian" on Simpsons in 1995 and produced a short film about the Grateful Dead.

McCartney has been the UK's richest entertainer since the Rich List was introduced in 1989, with an estimated net worth of £730 million in 2015. In addition to an interest in Apple Corps and MPL Communications, an umbrella company for his company's needs, he owns a substantial music publishing catalog, including the right to publish the musicals Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Annie and Grease. In 2003, he earned £40 million, the highest income in the UK during the year's media professions. By 2005, the figure had risen to £48.5 million. On the Run Tour of McCartney in 2012, the 18-date On the Run Tour took in £37 million.

In June 1962, McCartney's first recording deal as a member of the Beatles was signed by Parlophone Records, an EMI affiliate. The Beatles albums were released in the United States by an EMI subsidiary Capitol Records. In 1967, the Beatles re-signed with EMI for another nine years. The Beatles' records would be released through Apple after they established Apple Records in 1968, although the masters were still owned by EMI. Following the breakup of the Beatles, McCartney's music continued to be released by Apple Records under the Beatles' 1967 recording deal with EMI, which ran until 1976. McCartney re-signed with EMI globally and Capitol in the United States, Canada, and Japan in 1975 after the formal dissolution of the Beatles' relationship in 1975, retaining sole ownership of his solo catalog from EMI as part of the agreement. McCartney left Columbia Records in the United States and Canada in 1979, reportedly earning the industry's most lucrative recording deal to date, while remaining with EMI for distribution throughout the rest of the world. CBS sold Frank Music, the publisher of Frank Loesser's catalogue, as part of the agreement. McCartney's album sales were below CBS' expectations, and the firm's loss on the deal was at least $9 million. McCartney returned to Congress in 1985 and remained with EMI until 2006. McCartney joined Hear Music in 2007, becoming the label's first artist. For the 2018 Egyptian Station, he returned to Capitol.

Dick James, founder of Lennon–McCartney, released Northern Songs in 1963. McCartney owned 20% of Northern Songs, which later increased to 15% after a public stock offering in 1965. Although James sold a majority interest in Northern Songs to Lew Grade's Associated Television (ATV), after which McCartney and John Lennon sold their remaining shares to ATV, even though they were still under ATV control until 1973. McCartney resigned with ATV for seven years as part of a joint publishing deal between ATV and McCartney Music in 1972. Since 1979, MPL Communications has released McCartney's songs.

In 1981, McCartney and Yoko Ono attempted to buy the Northern Songs catalogue, but Grade declined their bid. ATV Music's parent company, Associated Communications Corp., was purchased in a takeover by businessman Robert Holmes à Court, who later sold ATV Music to Michael Jackson in 1985. Over the years, McCartney has sluggishly criticized Jackson's purchase and treatment of Northern Songs. Jackson combined his catalog with Sony in 1995, establishing Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where he retained half-ownership. In 1995, Northern Songs was officially dissolving and being integrated into the Sony/ATV catalog. McCartney and his writers' royalties account for 31% of total revenue in the United States and can vary from 50 to 55 percent. "Love Me Do" and "P.S. are two of the Beatles' earliest hits; "Love Me Do" and "P.S. "I Love You" was published by an EMI affiliate, Ardmore & Beechwood, before signing with James. McCartney bought their publishing rights from Ardmore in 1978, and they are the only two Beatles songs owned by MPL Communications.

McCartney first used drugs in the Beatles' Hamburg days, when they would often use Preludin to maintain their energy when touring for long stretches. In a New York hotel room in 1964, Bob Dylan introduced them to marijuana; McCartney recalls being "very high" and "giggling uncontrollably." He began using the drug quickly, and Miles, McCartney, wrote "another kind of mind" in "Got to Get You into My Life" specifically as a reference to cannabis. McCartney occasionally smoked a joint in the car on the way to the studio during filming, but he often forgot his lines. Director Richard Lester overheard two physically attractive women trying to convince McCartney to use heroin, but he refused. During the recording of Sgt, McCartney, who was introduced to cocaine by Robert Fraser, used the drug frequently. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band played for about a year in total, but the band was forced to leave because of Pepper's aversion of the noxious melancholy that had characterized him afterwards.

McCartney, who was initially reluctant to try LSD, eventually did so in late 1966, on his second "acid ride" with Lennon after a Sgt. A pepper studio visit. "It opened my eyes [and] made me a more mature, more tolerant member of society," he later revealed.

McCartney introduced his opinion about marijuana in 1967, when he, along with the other Beatles and Epstein, added his name to a July advertisement in The Times, calling for its constitutionalization, the freeing of those detained for possession, and study into marijuana's medicinal uses.

In 1972, a Swedish court fined McCartney £1,000 for marijuana use. Scottish police officers found marijuana plants growing on his farm, prompting his 1973 arrest and a £100 fine.

The US government has consistently refused to give him a visa until December 1973 as a result of his heroin arrests. Linda was arrested again for marijuana use in 1975 in Los Angeles, but the charges were dismissed shortly.

When Wings travelled to Tokyo for a tour of Japan in January 1980, customs officials discovered about 8 ounces (230 g) of cannabis in his luggage. "I don't know what possessed me to stick this bloody huge bag of grass in my suitcase years later," McCartney said. It almost makes me shiver when considering it back. They arrested McCartney and took him to a local prison, while the Japanese government decides what to do. After ten days, they were released and deported him without charge.

Authorities arrested McCartney in 1984 for smoking marijuana while on vacation in Barbados, fineing him $200. On his return to England, he said that marijuana was less harmful than medical products alcohol, nicotine, and glue, and that he had done no harm to anyone.

"People are smoking cigarettes anyway, so making them criminals is wrong," David Persa said in 1997. In 2015, McCartney quit smoking, citing the desire to lead by example for his grandchildren.

McCartney has been a vegetarian since 1975. For the most part of their 29-year marriage, he and his wife Linda were vegetarians. Since Paul saw lambs in a field while enjoying a meal of lamb, they decided not to eat meat. The couple became outspoken animal rights campaigners shortly after. He promised to keep campaigning for animal rights in his first interview after Linda McCartney's death, and in 1999, he spent £3,000,000 to ensure Linda McCartney Foods remained free of genetically engineered ingredients. He narrated the documentary Devour the Earth, written by Tony Wardle in 1995. McCartney is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal rights group. He has been active in the company's campaigns, and McCartney narrated "Glass Walls," which was sharply critical of slaughterhouses, the meat industry, and animal welfare. McCartney has also supported campaigns coordinated by the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society International, World Animal Protection, and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

Following McCartney's marriage to Mills, he joined her in a movement against land mines, becoming a member of Adopt-A-Minefield. In a 2003 meeting in the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin, McCartney and Mills encouraged Russia to join the anti-landmine movement in Red Square. The McCartneys travelled to Prince Edward Island in 2006 to raise international interest in seal hunting. On Larry King Live, the pair discussed with Danny Williams, Newfoundland's then Premier, that fishermen should avoid hunting seals and instead start seal-watching companies. McCartney also endorses the Make Poverty History project.

McCartney has appeared on numerous charity albums and performances, including the People of Kampuchea, Ferry Aid, Live Aid, Live Aid, and the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey." In 2004, he donated a song to an album to support Burma's "US Campaign for Burma," in favor of Burmese Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. He donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD in 2008 to help with the recovery from the 2004 tsunami's devastation in Southeast Asia.

McCartney wrote to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in 2009, asking him why he wasn't a vegetarian. "My doctors tell me that I must eat meat," McCartney explained. And I wrote back, saying, 'You know, I don't think that's correct,' I guess that's right.' I think he's now being told that his protein will be obtained elsewhere. It just doesn't look right, according to the Dalai Lama, on the one hand, saying, 'Hey guys, don't hurt sentient beings.'" oh, and by the way, I'm having a steak.'

Artists Against Fracking launched McCartney in 2012.

Save the Arctic is a campaign to defend the Arctic and international outcry, as well as a renewed focus on oil development in the Arctic, which has attracted the support of more than five million people. This includes McCartney, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners.

McCartney was quoted in 2015: "The people of the United Kingdom are behind this Tory government on certain aspects, but the overwhelming majority of us will be against them if hunting is reinstated." It's cruel and unnecessary, and it could hurt them and animals, as well as animal lovers like myself."

During a Berlin concert, McCartney expressed his sympathy for the victims.

McCartney was insisted that Chinese wet markets (which sell live animals, as well as wild ones) be barred during the COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed worry over both the medical and the cruelty to animals.

McCartney is one of the 100 contributors to the book Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, of which all proceeds go to NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust.

McCartney has voiced support for Everton F.C. Liverpool F.C. has also flocked to Liverpool F.C., and has received a following. When he said in 2008, he bangered speculation over his allegiance: "My father was born in Everton, and my family are officially Evertonians." So if it comes down to a derby match or an FA Cup final between the two teams, he'd have to help Everton. But after a concert at Wembley Arena, I felt a little of a connection with Kenny Dalglish, who had attended the show and wondered, 'You know what?' "I'm just going to help them both because it's all Liverpool."

Dorothy "Dot" Rhone, who first met in Liverpool in 1959, was McCartney's first serious girlfriend. According to Spitz, Rhone felt that McCartney had a compulsion to control situations. He often chose clothes and makeup for her, encouraging her to grow her blonde hair to mimic Brigitte Bardot's hairstyle and, in the case of this, she had her hair restyled, to disappointing effect. When McCartney first went to Hamburg with the Beatles, he wrote to Rhone regularly, and she accompanied Cynthia Lennon to Hamburg as they returned to Hamburg in 1962. The couple were due to marry before Rhone's miscarriage. Spitz, McCartney, and McCartney, now "free of obligation," ended the relationship.

McCartney first met British actress Jane Asher on April 18th, 1963, when a photographer asked them to photograph a Beatles performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. They began dating as together, and Asher took up residence with Asher at her parents' home in Marylebone, central London, in November of that year. They had been in the area for more than two years before deciding to McCartney's own home in St John's Wood in March 1966. While living with the Ashers, he composed "Yesterday," "And I Love Her," "You Won't See Me" and "I'm Looking Through You"; the latter three having been inspired by their love. They had been together for five years and intended to marry, but Asher decided against it after she learned she would be working with Francie Schwartz, an American screenwriter who moved to London at age 23 in the hopes of selling a script to the Beatles. She met McCartney and he invited her to move into his London home, where events that may have ended up his friendship with Asher.

"All my teenage years were spent with an ear to the radio," Linda Eastman said. At times, she skipped school to see artists such as Fabian, Bobby Darin, and Chuck Berry. Jimi Hendrix's tour, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, and the Beatles were among her many rock bands, including Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, and the Beatles, whom she first encountered at Shea Stadium in 1966. "It was John who drew me at the start," she explained. He was my Beatle hero. The fascination faded quickly when I met him, and I discovered it was Paul I loved." During her UK assignment to photograph rock musicians in London on May 15, the pair first became properly acquainted on May 15, 1967, at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails club. "I spotted her across a packed bar the night Linda and I met, and although I might have been upbeat chatting her up, I realized... Pushiness worked for me that night," Paul recalls. Linda wrote this about their meeting: "I was very shameless actually." [that night] was with someone else [and] I saw Paul on the other side of the room. He seemed so graceful that I'd change my mind that I'd have to pick him up." In March 1969, the two met in March 1969. "We had a lot of fun together, but the fact of being non-existent makes it impossible," Paul said about their marriage. Linda's very big on only following the current trend." "We were crazy," he explained. The night before we got married, we had a huge argument, and it was almost called off... [It's] miraculous that we survived it. We did not succeed.

The two bands collaborated musically and formed Wings in 1971 after the Beatles' break-up. Any supporters and commentators who had questioned her inclusion were furious. She was nervous about going out with Paul because "she beat those nerves, got on with it, and was really brave." "I taught Linda the keyboard basics," Paul said - she did a lot more than it was. "She's not really playing" or 'Look at her, she's just playing with one finger,' the critics would predict.' But they didn't know was that occasionally she was playing a thing called a Minimoog, which could only be played with one finger. It was monophonic." He continued to say, "We thought we were in it for the fun, but it was just something we wanted to do," so if we got it wrong, it was a big deal." We didn't have to defend ourselves," the author says. McCullough, a former Wings guitarist, said of working with Linda, "working with a learner in the company didn't work as well as I was worried."

They had four children: Heather (legally adopted by Paul), Mary, Stella, and James; and Linda survived until Linda's death from breast cancer at age 56 in 1998. "I got a counsellor because I knew that I'd need some assistance after Linda died," Paul said. He was fantastic, particularly in helping me get rid of my anxiety [about wishing I'd been] perfect all the time]... a real bugger. But then, I thought, oh, hang on a minute. We're just human. That was the most beautiful part of our marriage. We were just a boyfriend and a mother having babies."

Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmine campaigner, married McCartney in 2002. Beatrice Milly, the couple's son, was born in 2003 in honor of Mills's late mother and one of McCartney's aunts. They divorced acrimoniously in March 2008 and broke in April 2006. "The British people [didn't like me giving up on Jane Asher] in 2004, he wrote an article about media animosity against his coworkers. I married [Linda], a New York divorcee with a child, and they didn't like it at the time.

On September 9, 2011, McCartney married New Yorker Nancy Shevell in a civil ceremony at Marylebone Town Hall, London. The wedding was a modest affair attended by a group of about 30 relatives and friends. The two couples had been together since November 2007. Shevell is vice president of a family-owned transportation company that owns New England Motor Freight. She is a former board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the New York area. Shevell is about 18 years older than McCartney. They had known each other for about 20 years before marrying, and they had met in Hamptons because both had homes.

Though McCartney had a strained friendship with Lennon, they became close in early 1974 and played music together on one occasion. The two families became estranged in later years. McCartney used to call Lennon, but was apprehensive about the reception he would attend. "You're all pizza and fairytales," Lennon said on one call. They often spoke about cats, babies, or baking bread in an attempt to avoid talking solely about company.

McCartney and Lennon were watching an episode of Saturday Night Live at Lennon's house in the Dakota on April 24, 1976, when Lorne Michaels made a $3,000 cash bid for the Beatles to reunite. Although they seriously considered going to the SNL studio a few blocks away, they decided that it was too late. This was their last time together. In the 2000 television film Two of Us, VH1 fictionalized this event. McCartney's last phone call to Lennon days before Lennon and Ono were announced Double Fantasy was friendly: "It is] a consoling factor for me because I don't know that we never sat down and straightened our differences out." But, fortunately for me, the last phone call I ever had with him was really good, and we didn't have any kind of meltdown," he said.

McCartney announced on December 9, 1980, Lennon had been assassinated the night before; Lennon's death caused a media frenzy involving the band's remaining members. McCartney was leaving an Oxford Street recording studio that evening when he was approached by journalists who asked him for his opinion; he responded, "It's a drag." He was quickly chastised by the media for what seemed to be a superficial response. "When John was killed someone screamed a microphone at me, and he asked, 'What do you think about it?" he later explained. 'It's a g' and I meant it with every inch of melancholy I could muster,' I said. It's a drag," McCartney said in London today as asked for a comment on his deceased friend.' It seemed that making a very casual comment." He recalled his first conversation with Ono after the assassination of Lennon, as well as his last chat with Lennon:

"I would not have been as articulate and standoffish as I was if I knew John was going to die," McCartney said in 1983. I'd have made more of an effort to find out what happened to his'mask' and have a better understanding with him. He said he went home that night, watched television with his children, and cried the majority of the evening. He said that Lennon's death caused the remaining ex-Beatles anxious that they might be killed. Lennon was his greatest hero, according to Mojo magazine in 2002. In 1981, McCartney performed backup on Harrison's "All Those Years Ago," which featured Lennon on drums, when Lennon was on drums. In 1982, McCartney performed "Here Today," a song Everett described as a "sueless tribute" to McCartney's relationship with Lennon.

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McCartney and his band, the Quarrymen, attended John Lennon and his band at the St Peter's Church Hall fete in Woolton on July 6, 1957. The Quarrymen performed a mixture of rock and roll and skiffle, a form of common music with jazz, blues, and folk influences. McCartney was invited to join as a rhythm guitarist shortly after, and he developed a close working relationship with Lennon. Harrison joined in 1958 as the lead guitarist, Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe on bass followed him in 1960. The band had tried several names by May 1960, including Johnny and the Moondogs, Beatals, and the Silver Beetles. They adopted the Beatles in August 1960 and recruited drummer Pete Best shortly before a five-engagement residency in Hamburg.

Sutcliffe left the band in 1961 and McCartney reluctantly became their bass player. They appeared on "My Bonnie" in Hamburg for the first time and were branded as the Beat Brothers. This brought a lot of attention from Brian Epstein, who was a key figure in the company's subsequent growth and success. In January 1962, they were appointed their boss. Best was replaced by Best in August, and the band's first hit, "Love Me Do," in October, became famous in the United Kingdom in 1963 and in the United States a year later. The fan hysteria became known as "Beatlemania," and journalists often referred to McCartney as the "cute Beatle." 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).

The Beatles' "Yesterday" in August 1965, which featured a string quartet, was released by the Beatles.

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The album was the band's first recorded use of classical music elements and their first album that featured only a single band member. "Yesterday" became one of the most popular music hits in recent history. McCartney started supplant Lennon as the band's most prominent musical power later this year, during recording sessions. "From [1965] [McCartney]] would be in the ascendant not only as a composer, arranger, producer, and de facto musical director of the Beatles," musicologist Ian MacDonald wrote. Rubber Soul's reviewers characterized it as a major step forward in the refinement and profundity of the band's music and lyrics. Both Lennon and McCartney said they had written the music for the song "In My Life," which was considered a high point in the Beatles catalogue. "We'd had our cute period, and now it was time to expand," McCartney said of the album. Norman Smith, a recording engineer, said the Rubber Soul sessions revealed signs of increasing friction within the band: "The fight between John and Paul was clearly showing that [and] George [Harrison] was absolutely finicky."

The Beatles released the album Revolver in 1966. The album featured sophisticated lyrics, studio experimentation, and a broader collection of musical styles ranging from experimental string arrangements to psychedelic rock, which was a cultural leap for the Beatles. The single "Paperback Writer" was the first of three McCartney A-sides on record, and it came before the LP's appearance. The Beatles made a short promotional film for the song as well as another for the B-side, "Rain." In June 1966, the films, which Harrison referred to as "the forerunner of videos," were broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show and Top of the Pops. "Eleanor Rigby," McCartney's "Eleanor Rigby," also included a string octet. The album is described as "a neoclassical tour de force," Gould says, "a true hybrid with no identifiable style or genre of music." Except for some backing vocals, McCartney's lead vocal and the strings arranged by producer George Martin were excluded from the album.

At the end of the band's 1966 US tour, they performed their last commercial show. McCartney's first musical project outside of the company was completed later this year, a film score for The Family Way. The score was a result of a collaboration with Martin, who used two McCartney themes to create thirteen variations. The soundtrack didn't quite fit, but McCartney received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Instrumental Theme.

McCartney's sister, who was still uneasy about the band's performances, and he wanted them to maintain creative output. He pressed them to start Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is widely known as rock's first concept album. McCartney was inspired to create a new persona for the company in order to experiment and show their followers that they had musically matured. He created the fictional band of the album's title track. "We were fed up with being the Beatles," McCartney explained. We really disliked the fucking four little mop-top strategy. We were not boys; we were not boys; and [we] thought of ourselves as artists rather than just actors."

During recording sessions for the album, the band took an experimental approach beginning in November 1996. Martin and McCartney's recording of "A Day in the Life" required a forty-piece orchestra, which they took turns conducting. In February 1967, the LP followed "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" on the double A-side, and the LP followed in June. The LP's cover featured the Beatles in costume as the Sgt, based on an ink drawing by McCartney. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band performs alongside a cast of celebrities. The front page sparked a rash of analysis.

Epstein's death in August 1967 created a vacuum that left the Beatles perplexed and worried about their future. McCartney stepped in to fill the void and became Lennon's de facto chief and company manager. McCartney's first creative idea after this change in leadership, he suggested that the band go further on their plans to produce a film for television, which was to be dubbed the Magical Mystery Tour. The entire process, according to Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn, was "an administrative nightmare." McCartney largely supervised the film, which gave the group its first unfavorable critical reaction. However, the film's soundtrack was more popular. It was released in the United Kingdom as a six-track double extended play album (EP), and as a similarly named LP in the United States, which sold out with five songs from the band's recent singles. The Magical Mystery Tour LP, the company's only Capitol compilation that was later included in the company's official canon of studio albums, saw $8 million in sales in fewer than three weeks after its debut, with higher initial sales than any other Capitol LP up to that point.

Yellow Submarine, McCartney's animated film, premiered in July 1968, with a strong emphasis on the fictional world evoked by his 1966 film Yellow Submarine. Though critics adored the film for its filmic style, humour, and music, the soundtrack album, which was released six months later, received a less enthusiastic response. By late 1968, the band's ties were fading. During the recording of their eponymous double album, also known as the "White Album," the tense tension heightened. During the Let It Be sessions in the following year, the group's circumstances escalated: "We've been really bad since Mr. Epstein died, but it's silly to complain that discipline if it's our own," McCartney said.

McCartney married Linda Eastman in March 1969, and the couple had their first child, Mary, after his late mother, was born in August. Abbey Road was the band's last recorded album, and Martin called "a continuously moving piece of music" on the group's website, urging the band to consider symphonically. McCartney accepted, but Lennon did not. They eventually gave up, agreeing to McCartney's suggestion that individual songs be included on side one of an album, as well as a long medley on side two. A rumour of McCartney's death in a car crash in 1966 was denied by a lookalike, but this was quickly dismissed when a November Life magazine cover featured him and his family with the headline "Paul is still with us."

In September 1969, John Lennon left the Beatles privately, but later decided not to divulge the details in order not to jeopardize ongoing business talks. When McCartney announced his own resignation from the company on April 10, 1970, he was embroiled in labor disputes with his bandmates, mostly regarding Allen Klein's leadership. On December 31, 1970, he filed a lawsuit in connection with the band's formal dissolution, and in March 1971, the court appointed a receiver to handle the Beatles' corporation Apple Corps' finances. On January 9, 1975, an English court officially ended the Beatles' friendship, but sporadic lawsuits against their record company, EMI, Klein, and each other continued until 1989.

McCartney, who was young as the Beatles were growing up in 1969–70, suffered with depression. His wife encouraged him to get out of that slump by praising his work as a writer and encouraging him to keep writing and recording. "Maybe I'm Amazed," he said, "Maybe I'm Amazed" explains how I'm stunned by what's going on, and maybe you're the only one who could ever help me understand; perhaps I'm stunned at how you pulled me out of time; perhaps you're amazed at the way I need you." "Every love song I write is for Linda," he wrote.

McCartney's first solo debut, McCartney, a top-one album in 1970, continued his musical career. This album, apart from Linda McCartney's vocal contributions, is a one-man project, with McCartney providing compositions, automation, and vocals. He collaborated with Linda and drummer Denny Seiwell on a second album, Ram. The co-written US number one hit single "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" was included in both a UK number one and a top-five hit single "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," included in the UK number one and a top-five. Denny Laine, a former member of Moody Blues, joined the McCartneys and Seiwell later that year to form the band Wings. McCartney had this to say about the company's development: "Wings were always a daunting proposition, so any group that was trying to [the Beatles'] triumph would have a difficult job"... I found myself in the same situation. However, it was a choice between going on or finishing, and I loved music too much to consider stopping." Stella, the McCartneys' daughter, was born in September 1971, in honor of Linda's grandmothers, both of whom were named Stella.

Wings' first concert tour began in 1972 with a debut performance in front of a crowd of seven hundred at the University of Nottingham, despite the addition of guitarist Henry McCullough. During an unannounced tour of universities, ten more gigs were followed by students in a van, during which the band stayed in modest accommodation and received honors in coinage collected from students, but they avoided Beatles songs during their performances. "The key thing I didn't want was to come on stage," McCartney said later, as all five rows of reporters with little pads were looking at me and saying, 'Oh well, he is not as good as he was." We opted to go out on the university tour, which made me less anxious, but by the time we finished, I felt ready for something else, so we headed to Europe." The band appeared almost entirely on Wings Over Europe during the seven-week, 25-show Wings Over Europe Tour: The Little Richard album "Long Tall Sally" was the only one to have been recorded by the Beatles. McCartney wanted the tour to avoid big venues; the majority of the small halls where they appeared had capacities of fewer than 3,000 people.

Wings' first US number-one single, "My Love," was released on their second album, Red Rose Speedway, a US number one and UK top five hits in March 1973. McCartney's collaboration with Linda and former Beatles producer Martin resulted in the album "Live and Let Die," which was the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. The song, which was nominated for an Academy Award, reached number two in the United States and number nine in the United Kingdom, and at number nine. Martin was also rewarded with a Grammy for his orchestral arrangement. Vincent Benitez, a music scholar and writer, characterized the album as "symphonic rock at its highest."

The McCartneys and Laine Band on the Run released the McCullough and Seiwell's 1973 debut. It was the first of seven platinum Wings LPs. It was a first for both the United States and the United Kingdom to top the charts in both countries and the first to reach Billboard magazine's charts on three separate occasions. It remained one of the decade's best-selling products, despite the fact that it remained on the UK charts for 124 weeks. Rolling Stone ranked it one of the year's best album of the year for 1973, and Paul McCartney and Wings received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Band on the Run" in 1975, and Geoff Emerick received the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording for the album. Wings made their second appearance on the US top-one single in 1974 with the title track. The album also featured top-ten hits "Jet" and "Helen Wheels," as well as earning the 418th position on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 100 Greatest Albums of All Time. McCartney fired guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton to replace McCullough and Seiwell. During recording sessions in 1975, Britton was fired and was replaced by Joe English.

On the Run, the Wings were followed by Wings on the Run (1975), and Wings at the Speed of Sound (1976). They began their fourteen-month Wings Over the World Tour in 1975, which included stops in the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, and the United States. It was the first time McCartney performed Beatles songs live with Wings, with five of them appearing on the two-hour set list: "I've Just Seen a Face," "Blackbird," "Lady Madonna," and "The Long and Winding Road" were among the tour's five songs. Following the second leg of the tour and extensive rehearsals in London, the group undertook an exciting US arena tour that culminated in the world's highest-one live triple LP Wings victory over America.

The McCartneys had their third child, named James, in September 1977. The Wings song "Mull of Kintyre," co-written with Laine in November, was quickly becoming one of the best-selling singles in UK chart history. It was the most profitable single of McCartney's solo career, double the sales of the previous year's "She Loves You" and went on to sell 2.5 million copies and hold the UK sales record until 1984.

London Town (1978) released a single ("With a Little Luck") and continued Wings' string of commercial success, placing the top-five in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The critical reception was unsatisfaction, and McCartney expressed disappointment with the album. McCartney's assemblage of a rock supergroup named "Rockestra" on two tracks was included in the Back to the Egg (1979). Wings, Pete Townshend, David Gilmour, Gary Brooker, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and others were among the band's members. Though the album was rated platinum, critics blasted it. Wings' final concert tour tour in 1979 featured 20 shows in the United Kingdom, including "Got to Get You into My Life," "The Fool on the Hill," and "Let It Be."

McCartney's second solo album, the self-produced McCartney II, debuted in 1980 and ranked number two in the United Kingdom and third in the United States. He wrote and performed it alone on his first album. The album featured the song "Coming Up," the group's live version of which, which was recorded in Glasgow, Scotland, became the group's last number one hit. By 1981, McCartney felt he had achieved all he could with Wings and decided he needed a change. Following tensions over royalties and salaries, the group was suspended in April 1981.

McCartney collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the Martin-produced number-one hit "Ebony and Ivory" (edition of McCartney's Tug of War LP) and with Michael Jackson on "The Girl Is Mine" from Thriller in 1982. McCartney's "Ebony and Ivory" was his 28th single to debut on the Billboard Top 100 for the 28th time. He and Jackson appeared on "Say Say Say," McCartney's most recent US number one as of 2014. With the title track of his LP debut that year, "Pipes of Peace," McCartney's new UK number one as of 2014.

McCartney appeared in the musical Give My Regards to Broad Street, a comedy film that also wrote and produced that included Starr in an acting role in 1984. Critics mocked the film as "characterless, bloodless, and pointless," Variety wrote, while Roger Ebert gave it a single actor, "you can comfortably skip the movie and move straight to the soundtrack." The album did much better, peaking at number one in the United Kingdom and releasing "No More Lonely Nights," starring David Gilmour on lead guitar. Warner Brothers hired McCartney to write a song for the comedic feature film Spies Like Us in 1985. With Phil Ramone co-producing, he created and recorded the album in four days. McCartney performed "Let It Be," but technical difficulties rendered his vocals and piano barely audible for the first two verses, punctuated by squeals of feedback. Equipment technicians sorted the issues, and David Bowie, Alison Moyet, Pete Townshend, and Bob Geldof appeared on stage, gaining a vociferous audience reaction.

McCartney appeared on Press to Play (1986), with Stewart co-writing more than half of the songs on the album. McCartney introduced нова в, which was first available only in the Soviet Union and contained eighteen covers, but it was only released over the course of two days. In 1989, he joined forces with Merseysiders Gerry Marsden and Holly Johnson to produce an updated version of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" for the Hillsborough disaster appeal fund. He published Flowers in the Dirt in the same year as Elvis Costello's joint venture with him that featured musical contributions from Gilmour and Nicky Hopkins. McCartney and Linda formed a band consisting of himself and Linda, Hamish Stuart and Robbie McIntosh on guitars, Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards, and Chris Whitten on drums. They unveiled the Paul McCartney World Tour in September 1989, his first in over a decade. On April 21, 1990, McCartney performed for the biggest paying stadium audience in history on the 21st century, when 184,000 people attended his performance at Maracan Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He released Tripping the Live Fantastic, which featured selected excerpts from his tour earlier this year.

McCartney first ventured into orchestral music in 1991, when the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society ordered a musical work by him to commemorate the company's centennial. He collaborated with composer Carl Davis on the production of Liverpool Oratorio. The performance featured opera singers Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley, and Willard White with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Liverpool Cathedral's choir. The critiques were critical. The Guardian was particularly critical, noting that the piece is "afraid of anything approaching a fast tempo" and that "the piece has "no idea of the urgent need for recurrent concepts that would tie the collection together." "Yes, history shows that many good pieces of music were not liked by the time's critics," McCartney wrote in response to a criticism that was posted on the website, "and we are content to... let people decide for themselves the merits of the work." "There are moments of beauty and pleasure in this epic flop... the music's innocent sincerity makes it impossible to be put off by its dreams," the New York Times said. The Liverpool Oratorio debuted at number one on the UK classical chart after its London premiere, according to Music Week.

McCartney performed a collection of acoustic-only songs on MTV Unplugged in 1991 and later released Unplugged, the Official Bootleg's live album. McCartney performed twice with Youth of Killing Joke as the musical pair "the Fireman" in the 1990s. In 1993, the two released Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, their first electronica album together. In 1993, McCartney released Off the Ground, a rock band. The following New World Tour followed, which culminated in the unveiling of the Paul Is Live album later this year.

McCartney took a four-year break from his solo career to work on Apple's Beatles Anthology Project with Harrison, Starr, and Martin, beginning in 1994. In 1995, he produced Oobu Joobu, a radio series that he referred to as "widescreen radio." Prince Charles was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Music in 1995; "kind of amazing for someone who doesn't read a single word of music."

McCartney's 1997 hit the rock band Flaming Pie. In "Beautiful Night," the star appeared on drums and backing vocals. Later this year, he unveiled the classical work Standing Stone, which topped the UK and US classical charts. He released Rushes, the Fireman's second electronica album, in 1998. Run Devil Run was released by McCartney in 1999. It was primarily an album of covers for three McCartney originals, recorded in one week and starring Ian Paice and David Gilmour. He had been planning such an album for years, having been advised by Linda, who died of cancer in April 1998.

McCartney's wife of 29 years, Linda, died a year before, and he gave her an unannounced appearance at the benefit tribute, "Concert for Linda," he said. On the 10th of April 1999, two of her closest friends, Chrissie Hynde and Carla Lane, were present at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He continued his experiments with orchestral music on Working Classical in 1999.

He released the electronica album Liverpool Sound Collage with Super Furry Animals and Youth in 2000, employing the sound collage and musique concrète techniques that had captivated him in the mid-1960s. He contributed the song "Nova" to a tribute album of classical, choral music dedicated to Linda (2000), who was dedicated to his late wife.

McCartney was inspired to play a key role in the upcoming concert in New York City after witnessing the September 11 attacks from the JFK airport tarmac. "Freedom" was included on his studio album launch in November that year, as a result of the attacks. McCartney went out on tour with a new band that included guitarists Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, assoated by Paul "Wix" Wickens on keyboards, and Abe Laboriel Jr. on drums. They began the Driving World Tour in April 2002, which included stops in the United States, Mexico, and Japan. The tour culminated in the release of Back in the United States as Back in the World, a national tour. The tour debuted in $26.2 million, an average of over $2 million per night, and Billboard named it the year's best tour of the year. McCartney has performed live with Ray, Anderson, Laboriel, and Wickens longer than he performed with the Beatles or Wings; the group continues to perform together; McCartney has performed with them longer than he has performed live with them.

McCartney married Heather Mills in July 2002. McCartney appeared at the Concert for George on the first anniversary of George Harrison's death in November. He appeared in the National Football League's Super Bowl, performing "Freedom" on the pre-game show for Super Bowl XXV in 2002 and 2005, as well as directing the halftime show at Super Bowl XXIX. In 2002, the English College of Arms honoured McCartney by giving him a coat of arms. His crest, which shows a Liver bird clutching an acoustic guitar in its claw, reflects his time in Liverpool and his musical career. The shield has four curved emblems that mimic beetles' backs. "Behold My Heart," the arms' motto is in Latin, "Ecce Cor Meum." Beatrice Milly, the McCartneys' daughter, was born in 2003.

In July 2005, he appeared at the Live 8 festival in Hyde Park, London, opening the show with "Sgt." Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (with U2) and "Drive My Car" (with George Michael), "Helter Skelter," and "The Long and Winding Road" concluded Pepper's "Drive My Car" (with George Michael). In September, he released Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, for which he provided the majority of the instruments. McCartney unveiled Ecce Cor Meum in 2006, which was the classical work by the artist. Memory Almost Full was the rock album that followed in 2007. Electric Arguments, his third Fireman album, was released in 2008. He appeared at a concert in Liverpool in 2008 to celebrate the city's year as Europe Capital of Culture. After a four-year absence, he returned to touring in 2009 and has appeared in more than 80 shows. More than four decades since the Beatles first appeared on American television during The Ed Sullivan Exhibition, he returned to the same New York theatre to perform with David Letterman on Late Show. Following a four-year digital remastering effort, EMI reissued the Beatles catalogue on September 9, 2009, releasing The Beatles: Rock Band on the same day.

McCartney's long-dance has made him a popular choice for new venues. He appeared at three sold-out concerts at the newly constructed Citi Field, a venue that was built to replace Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, in 2009. Later this year, these performances resulted in the release of two live albums Good Evening New York City.

McCartney opened the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2010; it was his first concert in Pittsburgh since 1990, but the old Civic Arena was deemed unsuitable for McCartney's logistical needs. McCartney appeared at two sold-out concerts at the new Yankee Stadium in July 2011. According to a New York Times review of the first concert, McCartney was "not saying goodbye but touring stadiums and playing marathon concerts." McCartney was commissioned by the New York City Ballet and appeared in September 2011 for his first score for dance, a performance with Peter Martins titled Ocean's Kingdom. McCartney married Nancy Shevell in 2011. In February 2012, Kisses on the Bottom, a series of benchmarks, was published, two days before his awarding him as the MusiCares Person of the Year by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the same month.

McCartney is still one of the world's best draws. During two performances in Mexico City in May, he attracted over 100,000 spectators, with the shows grossing almost $6 million. McCartney closed Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in June 2012, performing "Let It Be" and "Live and Let Die" on a set. On July 27, he closed the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by performing "The End" and "Hey Jude" and inviting the audience to join in on the coda. He received £1 from the Olympic organisers because he gave his time.

During the closing act of 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, seen by nearly two billion people around the world, McCartney performed with three former members of Nirvana (Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and guest artist Pat Smear) on December 12, 2012: McCartney performed with three former Nirvana members (Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl). McCartney's debuting of his forthcoming studio album New, which came out in October 2013, was on August 28th. On January 27, 2014, the Ed Sullivan Theater held a primetime entertainment special, with CBS airing at the Ed Sullivan Theater on January 27, 2014. The show celebrated McCartney and Ringo Starr's legacy as well as their 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The show, titled The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles, featured 22 classic Beatles songs performed by various artists, including McCartney and Starr.

McCartney cancelled a sold-out tour of Japan in May 2014 and postponed a US tour to October after contracting a virus. On July 5, 2014, he resumed the tour with a high-energy three-hour appearance in Albany, New York. McCartney appeared in the final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California, on August 14, 2014, the same venue where the Beatles appeared in 1966's final show. McCartney wrote and performed "Hope for the Future," the ending song for the video game Destiny. The Art of McCartney, a 42-song tribute album, was released in November 2014, and it features a diverse range of artists focusing on McCartney's solo and Beatles work. McCartney co-produced "Only One" with American rapper Kanye West, which was also released on December 31. McCartney appeared on the single "FourFiveSeconds" in January 2015. They released a music video for the song in January and performed it live at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards on February 8, 2015. McCartney appeared on West's 2015 single "All Day," which also includes Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom.

McCartney appeared with Paul Simon for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special in February 2015. On acoustic guitars, McCartney and Simon performed the first verse of "I've Just Seen a Face," while McCartney performed "Maybe I'm Amazed." McCartney performed lead vocals on the Alice Cooper-led Hollywood Vampires supergroup's cover of his song "Come and Get It," which appears on their debut album, which was released on September 11, 2015. McCartney unveiled Pure McCartney on June 10, 2016. The collection features songs from McCartney's solo career as well as his time with Wings and the Fireman, and it is available in three different formats (2-CD, 4-LP, and digital). The 4-CD version features 67 tracks, the bulk of which were top-40 hits. In a cameo role as Uncle Jack, McCartney appeared in the 2017 adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

McCartney filed a lawsuit in January 2017 against Sony/ATV Music Publishing in the United States district court, claiming to reclaim his interest in the Lennon–McCartney song catalogue, which began in 2018. The author can reclaim copyrights issued to a publisher after 56 years under US copyright law for works published before 1978. In June 2017, McCartney and Sony reached an indiscretion deal. McCartney's album Egypt Station's "I Don't Know" and "Come On to Me" were released on June 20, 2018, a version of Capitol Records. McCartney's first album in 36 years to top the Billboard 200 was his first to debut at number one, and it was his first album to debut at number one. McCartney, Ray, Wickens, and Abe Laboriel Jr. performed at The Cavern Club on July 26th, 2018. On Christmas Day 2020, Paul McCartney at the Cavern Club was filmed and later broadcast by BBC as Paul McCartney.

McCartney III, McCartney's 18th solo album, was released on Capitol Records on December 18, 2020. "Reinterpretations, remixes, and covers" of McCartney III Imagined was released on April 16, 2021.

Starting with the Beatles, American record producer Rick Rubin interviewed McCartney about his passion for music and his personal and professional lives with his former band members in 2021.

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present was McCartney's book The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present was published in November 2021. The book, which is based on conversations with Irish poet Paul Muldoon, is described as a "self-portrait in 154 songs." Both Barnes & Noble and Waterstones selected the Lyrics as Book of the Year.

McCartney's "Got Back" tour ran in the United States from 28 April 2022 to 2022, his first in the country since 2019. McCartney's headlined the Glastonbury Festival on June 25, 2022, just a week after his 80th birthday. He appeared on the Pyramid Stage, making him the oldest solo headliner at the festival. Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen were the special guests on the show. In 2022, he was named Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series as a producer for the documentary The Beatles: Get Back.

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