Sir Paul McCartney

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

"I’m going through great struggles, but I’m feeling pretty good. I have a lot of good support, particularly from my family. In difficult moments like this, it’s when a loving family shines through.

"We’re pretty close anyway, but when you go into something difficult, it does actually bring you closer together," he said.

McCartney said he could put what he was going through in perspective because there were people worse off than him.

Of his four-year marriage to Mills, McCartney said the real positive was their three-year-old daughter Beatrice.

"I’ve talked to a lot of people about it - you do - and the great thing that everyone says is you want to look at the positive that’s come out of it, and the real positive is my beautiful baby daughter.

"Both parents know that there is something great that came out of our marriage even though the marriage didn’t work."

McCartney, whose new album Memory Almost Full is released next month, moved to scotch rumours he is dating heiress Sabrina Guinness, saying there was "absolutely no truth" to the stories which have been printed about them.

McCartney receives tourism ’Oscar’ - April 19 2007
Sir Paul McCartney and his native city of Liverpool have been named joint winners of a major tourism "Oscar" presented on Wednesday night.

The former Beatle and his home town took the outstanding contribution to tourism prize at the Enjoy England Awards for Excellence presented in London.

On learning of the award Sir Paul said: "I’m honoured to receive this award, particularly because of the Liverpool connection.

"It’s great to think that in some small way I’ve done something to help tourism for the place of my birth, which I’m so proud of."

England Marketing Advisory Board chairman Hugh Taylor said: "Sir Paul McCartney has done great things for his home city of Liverpool, which has been completely transformed and seen visitor numbers more than double in the last five years.

"For many visitors, the emotional draw is that it is the home of the Beatles, and while Sir Paul modestly describes himself as ’just this kid from Liverpool’, his influence on the success of Liverpool’s tourism cannot be understated.

"He remains one of the most successful musicians and composers in popular music history."

The awards are organised by the VisitBritain organisation and the Caravan Club.

McCartney exhibition opens in NYC - Mar 24 2007
Macca fans will be flocking to the Big Apple for their last chance to see an intimate collection of tour photos, which opens in the city on Saturday.

Photographer Bill Bernstein, who’s worked closely with the former Beatle for the past 18 years, was given unprecedented access-all-areas to life on the road during Paul’s Each One Believing world tour, which played to over two million fans across 16 countries during 2002 and 2003.

And the photographer says: "There’s a real streak of humility in him. He is one of our biggest icons and yet he still gets moved by certain things and meeting certain people.

"You think, ’He should be used to that’, or ’He should expect that, being who he is’, but there’s a side to him that’s really kind of like that 19-year old boy back in his house in Liverpool, really surprised by it.

"It’s for real, it’s not an act - he’s managed to hold on to that," he adds. "He is a very resilient, positive person."

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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