Paul Mccartney
Paul McCartney was born June 18, 1942, in Liverpool, England. His work with the Beatles in the 1960s helped lift popular music from its origins in the entertainment business and transform it into a creative, highly commercial art form. He is also one of the most popular solo performers of all time in terms of both sales of his recordings and attendance at his concerts.
Paul McCartney began his lifelong love affair with music at an early age. Although he took formal music lessons as a boy, the future star preferred to learn by ear, teaching himself the Spanish guitar, trumpet and piano. In 1957, the teenaged musician met John Lennon at a church festival where both young men were performing. Sensing an early affinity, McCartney joined Lennon's band The Quarrymen. The two quickly became the group's songwriters, ushering it through many name changes and a few personnel changes as well. By 1960, they had settled on a new moniker, The Beatles, and George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best rounded out the group. The soon-to-be legendary mod squad started out the sixties in Hamburg, Germany, spending two years playing various nightclubs there. Soon Sutcliffe left the band, leaving McCartney to pick up the slack as the group's bass player. While in Hamburg, The Beatles recorded their first tracks, garnering the attention of Brian Epstein, who would quickly sign on as the band's manager. It wasn't long before The Beatles headed back to their home country and began working their way into the popular consciousness there. With Best's replacement by drummer Ringo Starr, the group seemed to gain steam.
The impact that The Beatles would ultimately have on the 1960s in music, film and popular culture is hard to overstate. "Beatlemania" soon gripped the world, and when the group made their debut in America the media would dub it the beginning of the "British Invasion," a period of musical crossover between the two nations that would change rock n' roll forever. During
Paul McCartney began his lifelong love affair with music at an early age. Although he took formal music lessons as a boy, the future star preferred to learn by ear, teaching himself the Spanish guitar, trumpet and piano. In 1957, the teenaged musician met John Lennon at a church festival where both young men were performing. Sensing an early affinity, McCartney joined Lennon's band The Quarrymen. The two quickly became the group's songwriters, ushering it through many name changes and a few personnel changes as well. By 1960, they had settled on a new moniker, The Beatles, and George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best rounded out the group. The soon-to-be legendary mod squad started out the sixties in Hamburg, Germany, spending two years playing various nightclubs there. Soon Sutcliffe left the band, leaving McCartney to pick up the slack as the group's bass player. While in Hamburg, The Beatles recorded their first tracks, garnering the attention of Brian Epstein, who would quickly sign on as the band's manager. It wasn't long before The Beatles headed back to their home country and began working their way into the popular consciousness there. With Best's replacement by drummer Ringo Starr, the group seemed to gain steam.
The impact that The Beatles would ultimately have on the 1960s in music, film and popular culture is hard to overstate. "Beatlemania" soon gripped the world, and when the group made their debut in America the media would dub it the beginning of the "British Invasion," a period of musical crossover between the two nations that would change rock n' roll forever. During