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Elvis Costello said The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” said something about Paul McCartney. He discussed the way Paul and John Lennon were seen by the public. Paul reacted to people who felt his songs were too “soppy.”
Elvis Costello said The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” contradicted a “cliche” about Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Subsequently, he said the cliche was not actually true. Notably, one of Paul’s most famous songs was a response to a persistent criticism of him.
Paul was the primary creative force behind some of The Beatles’ most famous ballads, such as “And I Love Her,” “The Long and Winding Road,” and “Yesterday.” Meanwhile, John gave was the main songwriter behind avant-garde tracks like “Revolution 9” and “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
In a 2022 article from Stereogum, 80 different artists spoke about Paul. In the article, Costello discussed the perception of John and Paul. “The cliche for Lennon and McCartney is that Paul is the sweet one and John is the edgy one,” Costello said.
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Paul McCartney's former wife's love of cooking was passed on to his family and children
Once the music icon relocated his children to Scotland to raise them far from the spotlight
Paul is a proud father of 5 children and grandfather of 8 grandchildren. He loves to keep in touch with them
Paul McCartney, the former bassist of the iconic band The Beatles, is now spending quality time with his family after many years of fame. He has enjoyed massive success as a musician, but what he cares most about is the happiness and well-being of his family.
Paul has successfully balanced his responsibilities as a father and a rock star. As he soared to stardom in the past, he made sure to keep his children out of the limelight and give them a chance to experience a normal childhood.
Paul shot to immense stardom as the bass guitarist of the famous English band The Beatles, but for his five children — Heather, Mary, Stella, James, and Beatrice McCartney, he is a loving father.
Paul has said that being a parent is the most rewarding thing he has ever done, even though he's had many number-one hits and toured the world with his music, playing classic songs like "Hey Jude" and "Come Together."
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Paul McCartney and his multimillionaire wife surprised a Polish couple by entering their quaint café.
His wife and grandchildren always keep him grounded.
The singer and his wife recently marked 11 years of marital bliss.
Despite being one of the world's most successful and well-known musicians, former The Beatles member Paul McCartney has always maintained a low-key lifestyle with his family.
McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell have lived a simple life amidst their fame and fortune for over a decade. They frequently dine in ordinary cafés and eateries, enjoying life's simple pleasures. Fans have long admired the iconic musician's humble demeanor.
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Ringo Starr’s steady beat and underrated skills behind the drum kit made him the perfect drummer for The Beatles. It’s not a coincidence that the Fab Four shot to stardom soon after Ringo joined. Still, it wasn’t a cakewalk. Ringo said joining The Beatles was like going to school, and not just because he had to learn new songs.
Ringo was well known to The Beatles before they asked him to join.
Various childhood illnesses kept him out of school for years, but he discovered his passion for drumming during one hiatus. He never completed his childhood schooling, but that might have been a wise choice. Ringo built a reputation as Liverpool’s best drummer with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, who performed in Hamburg, Germany, during some of The Beatles’ residencies there.
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When The Beatles first exploded in popularity they set out on tours around the UK. The Fab Four squeezed into a small car and drove around Blighty to play their music to the growing fanbase that would create Beatlemania. But, considering Ringo Starr was the final member of the band to join the group, he was the last person the rest of the team wanted to sleep with in hotels around the country.
Starr was recruited into The Beatles in August 1962 after they dropped their first drummer from the band, Pete Best. While he gelled with the band musically and personally quickly, he was still an outsider joining the tight-knit threesome of pals John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
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George Harrison said the Concert for Bangladesh was a “stroke of luck” because there was no rehearsal. Thankfully, everything went to plan during the benefit concert.
In late 1971, Shankar told George about the humanitarian crisis in East Pakistan.
A devastating cyclone killed 500,000 people. After months of inaction from the West Pakistani government, people wanted a change. Eastern nationals declared themselves the independent country of Bangladesh. It started a bloody war. The Western Pakistani troops committed genocidal acts on the Bengali people.
“The more I read about it and understood what was going on, I thought, ‘Well, we’ve just got to do something,’ and it had to be very quickly,” George told Fugelsang. “And what we did, really, was only to point it out. That’s what I felt.”
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George Harrison said his only ambition was to be God-conscious, not to be a rock star. Although, his career as a guitarist led him to spirituality.
If George never became a rock star, he might not have become spiritual.
Spirituality came to George after a series of coincidental events. First, he heard Indian music on the set of The Beatles’ Help! When he started learning sitar, friends told him about Ravi Shankar.
Around this time, George took LSD for the first time and said it opened his mind up to “God-consciousness.” However, he didn’t know what that meant.
In 1965, George met Shankar, who immediately wanted to teach George everything he knew. The most important lesson Shankar taught George was that God is sound and that by playing the right notes, one can connect to God.
In 1966, George, his wife, Pattie Boyd, and Shankar took a six-week trip to India. George began learning about meditation and yoga. A year later, George learned Transcendental Meditation from the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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Some of The Beatles had different feelings on one of The Beatles’ songs from Abbey Road. An anvil was used as an instrument on the song. John felt the track was incredibly expensive.
A song from The Beatles‘ Abbey Road uses an anvil as an instrument. A sound engineer said Paul McCartney and John Lennon had conflicting opinions about the song. On the other hand, George Harrison called the song “fruity” but felt it was well-executed.
Geoff Emerick worked as a sound engineer on The Beatles’ Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road. In a 2022 interview with MusicRadar, he recalled the creation of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” “There were two struggles going on with this song: Paul and John fighting over whether it should even exist!” he said.
“John called it ‘more of Paul’s granny music,'” Emerick added. “But there was my own struggle coming up with the sounds that should go on it.”
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Paul McCartney’s destiny was to be a musician. That didn’t stop the Beatles bassist from considering other types of employment as a young man, however. He considered several options. One, however, seemed very idealistic and practical, much like McCartney himself. The musician once dreamed of becoming a “faithful” truck driver “going long distances”.
Per Britannica, McCartney’s young life in Liverpool, England was typical of the working class. His father Jim worked at the Liverpool Cotton Exchange. Mother Maria was a midwife.
The McCartney extended family were all hard workers who also knew how to have fun. Jim was the leader of Jim Mac’s Jazz Band and passed his love of music on to his two sons, Paul and Michael. However, the senior McCartney believed that while making music was a nice hobby, a full-time life as a musician was not the way to support a family. So he begged his son to find a permanent, full-time job.
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George Harrison‘s first wife, Pattie Boyd, reflected on her life as a Beatles wife in a new interview upon publication of her book, Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures. She discussed George’s impact on her life and revealed he would be the person she would love to have one last conversation with.At 19 years old, Boyd was sent by her modeling agency to Paddington Station on Mar. 2, 1964, for a small part in The Beatles’ first film, A Hard Day’s Night. She met John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, whom Boyd said “was the best-looking man I had ever seen,” according to Far Out Magazine.
Harrison appeared to be equally as smitten with Boyd, for as filming ended for the day, Harrison asked the young model, “will you marry me?” When she didn’t respond, he continued: “Well, if you won’t marry me, will you have dinner with me tonight?”
Boyd had a boyfriend, so she declined. However, after breaking it off with photographer Eric Swayne, she was asked to take care of her final obligations for the film, where she met the guitarist again. Harrison reiterated his dinner offer, and Boyd accepted. From that moment on, they were inseparable and tied the knot on Jan. 21, 1966.
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