1. Mike McCartney is the younger brother of former Beatle Paul McCartney.
13 Facts About Mike McCartney
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Michael was not enrolled in a Catholic school because his father, Jim Mike McCartney, believed that they leaned too much towards religion instead of education.
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At age 17, Mike McCartney started his first job at Jackson's the Tailors in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool.
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At the time the Beatles became successful, Mike McCartney was working as an apprentice at a ladies' hairdresser, where the staff included future actor Lewis Collins and budding comedian Jimmy Tarbuck.
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Mike McCartney decided to use a stage name, so as not to appear to be riding his brother's coattails.
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However, recorded during Mike McCartney's sessions with Wings was a Scaffold "reunion" song, "Liverpool Lou", which became The Scaffold's last top-ten hit.
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Mike McCartney was a photographer during his entire musical career, and has continued with photography since then.
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Mike McCartney has published books of pictures that he took of the Beatles backstage and on tour and, in 2008, brought out a limited edition book of photos that he had taken spontaneously backstage at Live8.
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Mike McCartney took the cover photograph for Paul McCartney's 2005 solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.
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The Mike McCartney brothers have a sister named Ruth whom their father Jim adopted in 1964 when he married her mother, Angela Williams.
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Mike McCartney married Angela Fishwick on 7 June 1968 and they had three daughters: Benna, Theran, and Abigail Faith; they later divorced.
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Mike McCartney married Rowena Horne on 29 May 1982 and they have three sons: Joshua, Max, and Sonny.
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In 2019, Mike McCartney was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "services to the community in Merseyside".