Paul McCartney 'Couldn't Ever Get With' His Piano Lessons as a Kid
Some people are so musically gifted that they don’t need many lessons to learn how to play an instrument. Paul McCartney is one of these gifted musicians and plays several instruments efficiently, including the guitar and the piano. While the former Beatle can play the piano at a high level, he says he never gravitated toward piano lessons as a kid.
Paul McCartney was born and raised in Liverpool, England, just as all the other Beatles were. He grew up in a working-class family of four, where his dad worked as a salesman while his mother was a midwife. He always had a passion for music, and his home had a piano. In an interview with Wired, McCartney says his dad knew how to play the piano but refused to teach him.
“When I was a kid, we had a piano in the house,” McCartney shared. “My dad played it. I’ve read stuff that lots of people in those days, all over the world really, had pianos in their houses. It was like having a computer these days. Everyone’s got one. That was a way people entertain themselves because there wasn’t much other entertainment, going back like before TV. So, yeah, we had a piano in the house, and I used to just noodle on it, and I asked my dad to teach me, but he wouldn’t.”
Source: Ross Tanenbaum/cheatsheet.com
