Sir Paul McCartney
- Profession: Musician
- Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 2020
- Assiociated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney
The Beatles legend, 63, admits he tries to maintain his youthful looks by colouring his hair - but has had some dyeing disasters in the past. The singer, who is married to model Heather Mills, revealed: "Ten years before I met Heather I was thinking about dyeing my hair. "I tried it in Australia - it looked cool until I went on stage. Then this blue liquid poured down my forehead. Highly embarrassing."
Sir Paul also admits he finds it difficult seeing himself as an older man. The superstar, who recently became a father for the fourth time when Heather gave birth to his baby daughter, Beatrice, confessed to Britain’s Q magazine: "Seeing my image looking older hits me. I just have to come to terms with it."
Meanwhile, Sir Paul, who is about to release his latest record, ’Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard’, has conceded some of his old songs were "rubbish". The star - who wrote all The Beatles’ biggest hits with John Lennon - admits he often cringes when he listens back to old albums. He said: "Some of my albums, I can’t believe what I was on."
Macca-gate - Feb 05
The NFL thought getting Paul McCartney in would make up for Janet’s nipple. How wrong could they be? The old adage ’you can’t please all of the people, all of the time’ has never rung so true - the FCC, America’s tele watchdog received a total of four complaints about Macca’s performance at the Superbowl this year. Ok, it’s hardly the thousands they got during Nipplegate but nonetheless two of those four complained of ’indecency’ in Sir Paul’s act. The reason for this was the reference to ’Californian grass’ in the Beatles’ classic, Get Back, which the two callers felt was an inappropriate subject for the half time performance. And the other two complaints? They just thought our crinkly old rocker was a bit boring.
Paul wakes up neighbours - May 04
Paul McCartney has been told to keep it down after waking up half of London.
Macca for some reason, found it necessary to employ the Millennium Dome as a practice hall for his upcoming European tour. The noise of his band disturbed a number of Londoners who complained to the local authorities about him saying that it was bad enough that he arrived in a helicopter every morning. Macca apologised to those whose cats had been affected by the noise, but come on - you are hearing Paul for free you lucky Londoners - people pay money for that privilage!
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McCartney ’down with the kids’ - May 04
Paul McCartney’s latest attempt to become popular with younger generations is an appearance on American Idol.
Rumour has it that the veteran musician will be a guest judge on Simon Cowell’s hit show. He was approached a while back and according to sources has shown a real interest in appearing on the latest series.
A Beatle writes about frogs - April 04
Paul McCartney is following in Madonna’s footsteps by penning a children’s book.
Macca has started work on a book called High in the Clouds about two squirrels and a frog trying to rescue animals endangered by urban development. Publishers expect the book will make millions, after all who wouldn’t want to buy their kids a book by the former Beatle?
McCartney looney toons - April 04
Paul McCartney has announced plans to release an animated feature film.
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At the age of 15 he met John Lennon. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they formed the most successful group in the history of music--the Beatles.
Since the Beatles, Paul has released 21 albums and staged three world tours, while evolving into classical composition, film-making and actively campaigning for ecology and animal rights After the Beatles split up in 1970, Paul embarked on a solo career before forming the group Wings with his wife, American Linda McCartney, which had some success but never to the scale of the Beatles, That has never yet again been seen, (even now)
His solo period during the eighties culminated with charity performances at Live Aid and for The Prince of Wales Trust, leading him to get back on the road again. Since 1990, Paul McCartney has traveled over 800,000 miles in concert through 22 countries, setting, along the way, the Guinness world record for the largest stadium crowd in the history of rock and roll--184,000 in Rio de Janeiro. During the same time, he also established the "MTV Unplugged" vogue and then performed his acoustic show in clubs and pubs around Europe.
In 1991, Paul staged the performance of his first classical work, "The Liverpool Oratorio", which has since been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide. In 1995--the 30th anniversary of his most acclaimed song, "Yesterday"-- Paul’s second classical work, "A Leaf," was performed at a benefit concert he organized for the Royal College of Music at St. James Palace. Paul composed a major orchestral work, commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of EMI Records.
In recognition of his work for all music, Paul was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the U.K.’s highest musical honour. Aside from his music, Paul McCartney campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He and his wife Linda are the new patrons of the British Vegetarian Society. He is also the chief patron of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, a new school similar to New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, which will open in his hometown in 1996. Paul has also developed his interest in film-making. His first production, "Daumier’s Law," won the top prize in 1992 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
His latest short feature, "Grateful Dead, A Photofilm," will be entered in the London Film Festival at the invitation of the British Film Institute. He was also knighted by the Queen and made a ’Sir’ Paul and Linda had three children between them as well as Linda daughter from a previous marriage, which Paul adopted as his own. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, she was only 56.
All of their children are a success in their own right Stella McCartney is head designer at Gucci after a very successful stint as head designer for Chloe and daughter Mary is a successful photographer just as her mother Linda was before her.
Three years after the death of his first wife Paul met Heather Mills at a charity event where Mills was raising financial assistance for the Heather Mills Trust, a foundation providing artificial limbs to war victims across the globe. Mills, a former swimsuit model, lost her left leg below the knee in 1993 after being hit by a police motorcyclist.
October 2007