43 Facts About Sir Paul Mccartney

Sir James Paul McCartney was born on 18 June 1942 and is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

Sir Paul Mccartney began his career when he joined Lennon's skiffle group, the Quarrymen, in 1957, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960.

Sir Paul Mccartney resumed his solo career in 1980 and has toured as a solo artist since 1989.

Sir Paul Mccartney's honours include two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, 18 Grammy Awards, an appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a knighthood in 1997 for services to music.

James Paul McCartney was born on 18 June 1942 at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool, where his mother, Mary Patricia, had qualified to practise as a nurse.

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Sir Paul Mccartney and Michael were baptised in their mother's Catholic faith, even though their father was a former Protestant who had turned agnostic.

Sir Paul Mccartney kept an upright piano in the front room, encouraged his sons to be musical and advised McCartney to take piano lessons.

Sir Paul Mccartney found it difficult to play guitar right-handed, but after noticing a poster advertising a Slim Whitman concert and realising that Whitman played left-handed, he reversed the order of the strings.

Sir Paul Mccartney pressed them to start a new project, which became Sgt.

Sir Paul Mccartney invented the fictional band of the album's title track.

Sir Paul Mccartney filed a suit for the band's formal dissolution on 31 December 1970, and in March 1971 the court appointed a receiver to oversee the finances of the Beatles' company Apple Corps.

Sir Paul Mccartney's wife helped him pull out of that condition by praising his work as a songwriter and convincing him to continue writing and recording.

Sir Paul Mccartney composed and recorded the track in four days, with Phil Ramone co-producing.

Sir Paul Mccartney collaborated with composer Carl Davis, producing Liverpool Oratorio.

Sir Paul Mccartney recorded a radio series called Oobu Joobu in 1995 for the American network Westwood One, which he described as "widescreen radio".

Sir Paul Mccartney had been planning such an album for years, having been previously encouraged to do so by Linda, who had died of cancer in April 1998.

Sir Paul Mccartney contributed the song "Nova" to a tribute album of classical, choral music called A Garland for Linda, dedicated to his late wife.

Sir Paul Mccartney's crest, featuring a Liver bird holding an acoustic guitar in its claw, reflects his background in Liverpool and his musical career.

Sir Paul Mccartney 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.

Sir Paul Mccartney closed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on 27 July, singing "The End" and "Hey Jude" and inviting the audience to join in on the coda.

Sir Paul Mccartney resumed the tour with a high-energy three-hour appearance in Albany, New York on 5 July 2014.

Sir Paul Mccartney was strongly influenced by Motown artists, in particular James Jamerson, whom McCartney called a hero for his melodic style.

Sir Paul Mccartney was influenced by Brian Wilson, as he commented: "because he went to very unusual places".

Sir Paul Mccartney changed back to the Hofner around 1990 for that reason.

Sir Paul Mccartney uses Mesa Boogie bass amplifiers while performing live.

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Sir Paul Mccartney played an Epiphone Texan on many of his acoustic recordings, but used a Martin D-28.

Sir Paul Mccartney has retained that original guitar to the present day.

Sir Paul Mccartney has primarily used a Gibson Les Paul for electric work, particularly during live performances.

Sir Paul Mccartney owns a rare Ampeg Dan Armstrong Plexi guitar, the only left handed one known to be in existence, which appeared in the Wings video for "Helen Wheels".

Sir Paul Mccartney was ranked the 11th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone, voted the 8th greatest singer ever by NME readers and number 10 by Music Radar readers in the list of "the 30 greatest lead singers of all time".

Sir Paul Mccartney continued experimenting with various musical and vocal styles throughout his post-Beatles career.

Sir Paul Mccartney played all the drum parts on his albums McCartney, McCartney II and McCartney III, as well as on Wings' Band on the Run, and most of the drums on his solo LP Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.

Sir Paul Mccartney referred to the finished product as "electronic symphonies".

Sir Paul Mccartney reversed the tapes, sped them up, and slowed them down to create the desired effects, some of which the Beatles later used on the songs "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "The Fool on the Hill".

Sir Paul Mccartney's father invited Paul and his brother Michael to solve crosswords with him, to increase their "word power", as McCartney said.

Sir Paul Mccartney has appeared in the group's campaigns, and in 2009, McCartney narrated a video for them titled "Glass Walls", which was harshly critical of slaughterhouses, the meat industry, and their effect on animal welfare.

Sir Paul Mccartney expressed concern over both the health impacts of the practice as well as its cruelty to animals.

Sir Paul Mccartney often chose clothes and makeup for her, encouraging her to grow her blonde hair to simulate Brigitte Bardot's hairstyle, and at least once insisting she have her hair restyled, to disappointing effect.

Sir Paul Mccartney met McCartney and he invited her to move into his London house, where events ensued that possibly broke up his relationship with Asher.

Sir Paul Mccartney became a popular photographer with several rock groups, including the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, the Doors and the Beatles, whom she first met at Shea Stadium in 1966.

Sir Paul Mccartney looked so beautiful that I made up my mind I would have to pick him up.

Sir Paul Mccartney is a former member of the board of the New York area's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Sir Paul Mccartney told Mojo magazine in 2002 that Lennon was his greatest hero.