Post by fourthousandholes on Feb 26, 2007 14:44:28 GMT -5
www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Paul-McCartney-Biography/D25F4464862508FA48256A4B000BB52D
also:
www.wwnorton.com/mccartney/
"Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 1942. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute, where he did better at English literature than at formal music lessons—developing a liking for the writings of Hardy, Wilde, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Sheridan, Shakespeare, and Chaucer.
At the age of fourteen he wrote his first song, a reflective lament called "I Lost My Little Girl." Eight years later he returned to the same rueful theme when he found the words for probably his most-noted song, "Yesterday."
First with and then without John Lennon, McCartney wrote some of the best-known lyrics of the twentieth century, including "A Day in the Life," "Hey Jude," "Let It Be," "Eleanor Rigby," and "For No One." His last recorded words with the Beatles, "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make," epitomize his pride that the songs of the Beatles affirmed the positive spirit of the times.
In 1990, McCartney developed an interest in orchestral music that has found success around the globe through his compositions The Liverpool Oratorio, Standing Stone, and Working Classical. McCartney has further diversified his expression by exploring his passion for painting, creating more than 500 canvases, exhibiting in Europe and America, and publishing an extensive volume of his work.
He has been writing poetry seriously for the past decade. His poems are collected for the first time, along with his legendary lyrics, in Blackbird Singing, to be published in the United States by W.W. Norton & Company on April 23, 2001. A Freeman of the City of Liverpool and Lead Patron of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Paul McCartney is a Fellow of The Royal College of Music and a Fellow of The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In 1996, he was knighted by H.M. The Queen for services to music.
Despite his many artistic achievements, Paul McCartney says that his greatest accomplishments are his four children.
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Review about Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney is A Musical Genuis! | Reviewer: fab4fan
Paul McCartney is a true musical genuis and even brilliant classical composer Leonard Bernstein said John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the two most brilliant song composers of the 20th century! So did Elton John on a 1991 CBs morning show and Brian Wuilson say this about them on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show. Ozzy Osbourne is even quoted in a 2001 online Bender Magazine interview saying Paul McCartney is a genuis and The Beatles are The Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Earth! Paul McCartney's father Jim MCartney was naturally musically very talented and he taught himself to play the piano at a young age and he became an acclomplished classical jazz pianist and the leader of his own jazz band called Jim Mac's band and they played in clubs in the 1930's. Paul inherited this musical talent from his father and he got it to an exteme! Paul and Wings recored an instrumental song that his father wrote called Walking in The Park With Eloise and they included it on The Wings At The Speed of Sound album.
Paul has also always been a great singer and bass player and there is a great web site called The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Denis Alstrand and in it Stanley Clarke,Billy Sheehan,Will Lee and Sting all say what a great,melodic influential bass player Paul has been! The Rolling Stone Album Guide also calls Paul a remarkable bass player and calls John and Paul the two greatest song writers in rock! Paul McCartney was given a special award from The Guiness World of Records in the fall of 1979 as the most successful song writer of all time! And the most covered of all time! Paul's wonderful midwife nurse Mary McCartney died of breast cancer when Paul was only 14 and he says in his authorized biography Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, that 12 years after she died he had a vivid dream where he saw her alive and she told him to just accept things as they are and when he woke up he thought how wonderful it was to see her again,and that's when he wrote the beautiful song Let it Be. And when he sings the lines,When I find Myself in Times Of Trouble Mother Mary Comes To Me Speaking Words Of Wisdom Let it Be,it's his mother Mary he's singing about!
My favorite solo/Wings albums are Red Rose Speedway and Venus and Mars and Band On The Run is very good too!...."
also:
www.wwnorton.com/mccartney/
"Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 1942. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute, where he did better at English literature than at formal music lessons—developing a liking for the writings of Hardy, Wilde, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Sheridan, Shakespeare, and Chaucer.
At the age of fourteen he wrote his first song, a reflective lament called "I Lost My Little Girl." Eight years later he returned to the same rueful theme when he found the words for probably his most-noted song, "Yesterday."
First with and then without John Lennon, McCartney wrote some of the best-known lyrics of the twentieth century, including "A Day in the Life," "Hey Jude," "Let It Be," "Eleanor Rigby," and "For No One." His last recorded words with the Beatles, "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make," epitomize his pride that the songs of the Beatles affirmed the positive spirit of the times.
In 1990, McCartney developed an interest in orchestral music that has found success around the globe through his compositions The Liverpool Oratorio, Standing Stone, and Working Classical. McCartney has further diversified his expression by exploring his passion for painting, creating more than 500 canvases, exhibiting in Europe and America, and publishing an extensive volume of his work.
He has been writing poetry seriously for the past decade. His poems are collected for the first time, along with his legendary lyrics, in Blackbird Singing, to be published in the United States by W.W. Norton & Company on April 23, 2001. A Freeman of the City of Liverpool and Lead Patron of The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Paul McCartney is a Fellow of The Royal College of Music and a Fellow of The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. In 1996, he was knighted by H.M. The Queen for services to music.
Despite his many artistic achievements, Paul McCartney says that his greatest accomplishments are his four children.
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Review about Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney is A Musical Genuis! | Reviewer: fab4fan
Paul McCartney is a true musical genuis and even brilliant classical composer Leonard Bernstein said John Lennon and Paul McCartney were the two most brilliant song composers of the 20th century! So did Elton John on a 1991 CBs morning show and Brian Wuilson say this about them on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute show. Ozzy Osbourne is even quoted in a 2001 online Bender Magazine interview saying Paul McCartney is a genuis and The Beatles are The Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Earth! Paul McCartney's father Jim MCartney was naturally musically very talented and he taught himself to play the piano at a young age and he became an acclomplished classical jazz pianist and the leader of his own jazz band called Jim Mac's band and they played in clubs in the 1930's. Paul inherited this musical talent from his father and he got it to an exteme! Paul and Wings recored an instrumental song that his father wrote called Walking in The Park With Eloise and they included it on The Wings At The Speed of Sound album.
Paul has also always been a great singer and bass player and there is a great web site called The Evolution of Rock Bass Playing McCartney Style by Denis Alstrand and in it Stanley Clarke,Billy Sheehan,Will Lee and Sting all say what a great,melodic influential bass player Paul has been! The Rolling Stone Album Guide also calls Paul a remarkable bass player and calls John and Paul the two greatest song writers in rock! Paul McCartney was given a special award from The Guiness World of Records in the fall of 1979 as the most successful song writer of all time! And the most covered of all time! Paul's wonderful midwife nurse Mary McCartney died of breast cancer when Paul was only 14 and he says in his authorized biography Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, that 12 years after she died he had a vivid dream where he saw her alive and she told him to just accept things as they are and when he woke up he thought how wonderful it was to see her again,and that's when he wrote the beautiful song Let it Be. And when he sings the lines,When I find Myself in Times Of Trouble Mother Mary Comes To Me Speaking Words Of Wisdom Let it Be,it's his mother Mary he's singing about!
My favorite solo/Wings albums are Red Rose Speedway and Venus and Mars and Band On The Run is very good too!...."
