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My later life

We had an influence on the whole world. I helped to compile we (the Beatles) Anthology albums, which unearthed alternative takes and forgotten recordings, and took part in the accompanying TV series. Perhaps as a result, my next album, Flaming Pie, saw me go back to the jazz and R&B songs that inspired us 30 years earlier. I also kept up my interest in classical music, and released two albums of dance music under The Fireman. In 1996, I opened the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, which was built on the site of my old school. The following year, I received a knighthood. However, the honor was overshadowed by the death of his wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer at the age 56 years old. I diverse interests came to the fore after my wife's death. I publicly exhibited I paintings for the first time, and released a book of poetry, Blackbird singing. I continued to record and tour, and headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2004. But my music was overshadowed by my marriage to the model Heather Mills. We tied the knot amid considerable secrecy in Ireland in 2002. Following our marriage, Mills and I devoted much time to charity work, and recently campaigned against the slaughter of seal pups in Canada. We had a daughter, Beatrice, in the autumn of 2003. However, we separated last month, blaming press intrusion for putting a strain on our relationship.

Personal Relationships

One of my many first girlfriends, in 1959, was called Layla; I only remember her name because it was unusual at that time. Layla was slightly older than me and used to ask me to baby-sit with her.  I had another girlfriend named, Julie Arthur, who was Ted Ray’s niece. Dot Rhone was my first serious girlfriend I met her at the Casbah Club  club in 1959. When I first went to Hamburg with The Beatles, I wrote to Rhone regularly, and she accompanied Cynthia Lennon to Hamburg when The Beatles played there again in 1962. We had a three-year relationship, and we were going to marry until Rhone had miscarriage. In 2002, I married Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner. We had a baby girl, Beatrice, in 2003. Then we separated in May 2006 and were divorced in May 2008. Widespread hostility towards my wives was reported in 2004. “They didn’t like me giving up on Jane Asher”, I said. “I married a New York divorcee with a child, and at the time they didn’t like that.” I have been dating New Yorker Nancy Shevell since November 2007. She is a member of the board of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority as well as vice president of a family-owned transportation conglomerate, which owns New England Motor Freight. We are planning to get married soon.

The wings

The year I had turned 30, I found two of my singles banned.

I had found a new band called, Wings, which went through a variety of different ranks during the 1970s.Our song Give Ireland Back To the Irish, released in February, was not approved for its political content, while December's Hi, Hi, Hi was thought to contain drugs references. We were sad that our songs were not approved. Critics for being overly sentimental often ridiculed my songs of this period, but they found great favor with the public. We didn't enjoy the critics listening to our music due to the harsh comments we got in return. Mull of Kintyre, a triumph to his Scottish outing with Linda, stayed at the top of the charts for nine weeks in 1977 and for several years held the record for being the highest-selling single in the UK! Our other hits included the James Bond theme Live and Let Die, and Band On The Run.

In 1980, I was arrested in Tokyo's Narita airport for possession of marijuana. I spent ten days in prison before being released and deported to United Kingdom. In December that year, my former band mate and writing partner, John Lennon, was shot dead on the steps of his New York home. I was devastated. After the Wings had separated in 1981, I had continued with my solo albums McCartney II and Tug of War. I had many duets with many famous people. Though the public turned their backs on the in the 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street, written by and starring myself. In the movie I had a song, which was a huge hit, No More Lonely Nights. In 1989 Flowers In the Dirt, had featured Elvis Costello, which was followed by my first world tour in 12 years.

THE BEST BAND!!! BEATLES

We started the Beatles in 1957 when John Lennon started the Quarrymen. Later that year his friend Ivan Vaughan introduced me. We began to cooperate on songwriting and a couple years later in 1958 George Harrison joined our band. In 1959 we changed our name to the Silver Beetles however we didn't have a drummer. George's friend Pete Best then joined the band. We then went to Hamburg, Germany because it was easier to hold performances there but we were told that we needed to have a 5^th person in the band. They went back to Liverpool and got John's friend Stuart Sutcliffe to join. But Pete Best did not feel comfortable in the band so in 1962 the final person joined. Richard Starkey was the oldest member and he also had been in a few other bands before. The same year Sutcliffe died in Hamburg so Paul started playing the bass. Later we changed our name again to just Beatles.

Our first performace was at the Cavern Club in Liverpool! In October 1962 our first single Love Me Do came out and reached the top 20. Our second single, Please Please Me, was a big hit. That album went to number one on the charts and started Beatle mania in England. Our first album was Please Please Me and it was also big a hit. The USA wanted us to perform there too but we said that we would not go to America until we had a number one song there. After we got a number one in America we decided to perform there. After touring America including an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show we went back to England to make our first movie called A Hard Day's Night. We made another movie with a soundtrack called Help! In late 1965 we played at Shea Stadium and had a record crowd of 55,000. We were touring the world and everyone loved our music and us. In late 1966 we played our last official concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. After not playing in concerts we had more time to focus on our albums. Next we started doing tours again, Magical Mystery Tour with songs such as I Am The Walrus. We then had the white album. We also did recording in Hamburg but the songs were not released until 1970 on the album Let It Be. Paul claimed that Specter (our album producer) ruined his song The Long And Winding Road with overdubs. Our last studio album came out before Let It Be was Abbey Road one of our best songs. George's songs were the best on this album with songs like Here Comes the Sun and Something. In April 1970 Paul announced that he was leaving our group. As a result of many of my band members leaving our band split up.

MY CHILDHOOD!

Hi and welcome to my blog! I am Paul McCartney from the very popular band called the Beatles. In my blog I am going to tell you about myself. I was born on June 18, 1942, at the Walton Hospital in Liverpool, England, where my mother, Mary, worked as a nurse in the maternity area. I was born to a working class family. I have one younger brother, Michael, whose birthday is January 7,1944.  I was baptized as a Roman Catholic, but was not raised as one. Religion did not play a major role in my childhood. My mother was Roman Catholic and my father James, was a Protestant but later turned into an agnostic.  My family had moved many times, but had finally settled down in 1955 in Allenton. She rode a bicycle to the houses where she needed to be a midwife. My mom, who was a heavy smoker died on October 31, 1956. My mom died of embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer; unfortunately the surgery wasn't a success. The early loss of my mother helped later connect me with John Lennon, whose mother also died. John Lennon’s mom died after being hit by a drunk driver when he was 17 years old.

My father was a trumpet player and a pianist who had led the Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s. He was also worked as a cotton salesman.  He encouraged my brother and I to be musical too! My father used to be able to point out the different instruments in songs, which were played on the radio. He also used to take me to local brass band concerts. My father gave me a nickel-plated trumpet, when jazz music had become popular.  I later traded my trumpet for an acoustic guitar. Unfortunately, I found playing the guitar very hard because my guitar’s strings were strung for a right-handed player, and I was left-handed. I would imitate the songs that I heard on the radio by playing it with my guitar.  I wrote my first song called “I Lost My Little Girl.” I also played my father’s Spanish guitar when writing earlier songs with Lennon. I later learned to play the piano and wrote my second song called, "When I'm Sixty-Four". I took my father’s advice and took music lessons, but I preferred to learn by ear so I never paid any attention to them.

I really enjoyed listening to music influenced by the American Rhythm and Blues. I had once stated that Little Richard was my idol. The first song that I had sung out in public was at a Butlins holiday camp talent competition; the song I sang was "Long Tall Sally."

During October 1957, I tried-out for John Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, who were looking for a third person who would be able to play the guitar. John Lennon and I began writing songs together that were later great hits. Some of our first songs consisted of Love Me Do and I Saw Her Standing There.