Sir Paul McCartney

Profession: Musician
Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 2020
Assiociated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney

Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Ravi Shankar and members of the Monty Python cast will join them for the gig on November 29. It will coincide with the first anniversary of the former Beatle’s death from cancer. The concert will be filmed for a TV special to air in early 2003. Tickets for the show go on sale on October 11.

Can’t Buy Art Critic’s Love!
Sir Paul McCartney has had his art exhibition at the Walker Gallery panned by critics. There are over 70 paintings by the ex-Beatle, much of them auto-biographical. Although one or two critics praised his lack of pretension and said they appreciated the honesty in their auto-biographical nature, most said he was over-ambitious, should ’stick to the day job’and that he was a ’faded pop star’ who didn’t deserve an exhibition in the Walker. David Lee, editor of arts magazine The Jackdaw, said: "None of these pictures is of any artistic merit. There is little consistency of treatment or subject."

McCartney took up painting at the late age of 42, on the advice of his late wife Linda. The opinion seems to be, that although painting may be something he enjoys it isn’t something he is extremely talented at and his celebrity status doesn’t guarantee him a place in the art history books as well as the singing/songwriting books.

Although the exhibition at the Walker has been badly recieved, they still estimate it is set to break all reocrds, with over 1,000 wanting to attend a day; which just goes to show, there really is no such thing as bad press.

Sir Paul to release ’lost’ Beatle track - 16/09/02
Paul McCartney is rumoured to be about to release a ’lost’Beatles track, which hasn’t been heard for 35 years.

He plans to use it as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda’s photographs. The Sunday Times reported the track which is called Carnival Of Light is apparently 14 minutes long and is largely instrumental and features John Lennon shouting "Barcelona".

Carnival Of Light was recorded at the Abbey Road studios in north London while the band were laying down tracks for their Sgt Pepper album. Sir Paul had reportedly wanted to include the track on one of the CDs of Beatles studio out-takes and rarities released in the 1990s but the late George Harrison vetoed it as "too far out".

Sir Paul has directed a movie based on his late wife’s 4,000 pictures of the band, which have never been shown before. The paper says the music will now form a soundtrack to the "photofilm" which will show the Beatles in informal settings from 1967 to 1970.

Paul McCartney and Heather ’McCartney’ Mills eat their greens! 08/02
Gorgeous newly weds Paul McCartney and Heather ’McCartney’ Mills , have been spotted yet again in Manna in Primrose Hill.

This top vegetarian restaurant has been graced by the famous veggie since National Vegetarian Week. Good on ya Macca!!

She loves him, he loves her, yeah yeah yeah- 12/06/02
The wedding of Sir Paul McCartney to Heather Mills finally took place yesterday, after heavy speculation, in Castle Leslie, County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Biography

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 2020 to James and Mary McCartney. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute.

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