Nineteen sixty two, the year rock and roll came to life. The Beatles, band on the run, English rock group, also know as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The group brought rock and roll to life gave it a meaning. Music was the way to for people to listen and understand music was a way of communication and Paul McCartney, one of the four who started it. Does he still have what it takes to be a rock star up to today?Paul McCartney a British vocalist, song writer, composer, bass player, poet, and painter whose being and doing the things he did in the sixties helped life popular music from its roots in the entertainment world. McCartney helped transform music into a creative highly artistic from.
McCartney is also one of the most popular solo performers of all time in all terms of recording and concerts. Paul McCartney is one of the most successful rock stars in all history of rock and roll. McCartney’s career span over four decades long which introduced him into the rock and roll hall of fame (“Paul McCartney”;Britannica Biographies).It all started back in 1942, where James Paul McCartney was born June 18, 1942 in Liverpool UK. to Jim a bandleader and Mary a nurse who helped deliver babies. The family was already musical as it was.
McCartney was only 14 when his mom Mary died from breast cancer. Later that year McCartney attempted and succeeded to writing his first song. Not only did he write his first song McCartney also taught himself how to play the guitar (“Paul McCartney”).Later in the summer of 1957, McCartney was introduced to John Lennon who was already in a skiffle band called Quarry Men, which McCartney soon joined after meeting and becoming friends with the group.
By this point in time, McCartney and Lennon Began writing songs together and shared all the song writing credits(“Paul McCartney”).Nineteen Sixty was the big year. That was the year Paul, George, John, and Ringo all said goodbye to the Quarry Men and hello to The Beatles. John as the guitar and vocalist, George as a guitarist, Stuart on drums, and Paul on bass guitar, but not for long also that was also know as the year McCartney took up bass guitar and took the credits of being two guitarist. Not long after Ringo Starr was introduced and took the place of Stuart (“Paul McCartney”).After two years of hard work The Beatles were signed by EMI with Brian Epstein as their manager.
“Love Do Me” produced by George Martin, that was the first big hit for the boys. It hit top 20 in the UK. in no time. With “Please, Please Me” coming as another big hit and “From Me To You” right behind it all leading to number one songs. This was the start to the Beatlemania Craze (“Paul McCartney”).
The Beatlemania Craze in no time hit the U.S. fans went crazy. In 1964 with the hit “Yesterday” which according to “Rolling Stone” was the most popular song in history and was played more than six million times on the radio alone. After a year of Beatlemania and crazy fans The Beatles gave up their touring (“Paul McCartney”).
The Beatles not only known as rockers in the 60’s but they were movies stars as well. They had many movies like “Help”, “Let it Be”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “The Yellow Submarine” and more. The English rock music group influenced by such great American performers like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and even Elvis Presley. The Beatles dominated rock music in the 1960’s.
The Beatles broke up and never reunited after too much and being exhausted all the same time. Only once did Paul, George, and Ringo perform again and that was for the death of guitarist and vocalist John Lennon (Newsweek vol. 141;“Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia”).Through all the touring and drama, Paul McCartney was still engaged to British girlfriend Jane Asher until he met American photographer Linda Eastman. Soon after he broke off his engagement, March 12, 1969 was the day the marriage was told to be one of the most famously stable marriages in the entertainment world (“Paul McCartney”).In 1971 McCartney formed a musical group called Wings with his wife Linda as a vocalist, Denny Laine as guitarist, and Denny Seiwell on drums.
Nineteen seventy-one was the first big album release; wildlife. In 1972 McCartney added another Guitarist Henry McCullough and another drummer Geoff Britton to the musical group. In 1973 Band on the Run recorded by the McCartney’s was considered as the great comeback for the formal Beatle topping charts in the U.S.
eventually landing in the UK (“Paul McCartney”).McCartney while on tour with Wings in Japan, was arrested and spent ten days in jail for possession of marijuana, but in the end he was let off with no charges. After the death on John Lennon on December 8, 1980 McCartney ended the musical group Wings. That was also the year McCartney released his solo album. Nineteen eighty-two was the year McCartney got his big hit, “Ebony and Ivory”.
McCartney had many number one hits and great albums up to 2007 to which his last one was released (“Paul McCartney”).The 1980’s were good years for McCartney. He appeared in “The Girl is Mine” a Michael Jackson hit. Also in 1989 McCartney went out on his first world tour since the wings over ten years ago and broke the attendance record in many countries. McCartney, in 1996 was working with BBC producers for a Beatles documentary when Paul, George, and Ringo met and began talking about it, that was the first time together since the death of John Lennon.
McCartney even discovered knight hood through his life by Queen Elizabeth the II (“Paul McCartney”).Out of all of McCartney’s accomplishments, he points all to his family as his proudest. A twenty- eight year marriage is amazing for a celebrity especially for a formal Beatle not to mention a great solo artist, celebrity marriages are hard enough. Paul and Linda raised four children all in a two bedroom home at the time. Heather (born 1963), was a potter and a jeweler; Mary (born 1969), was a photographer and an animal rights complainer; Stella (born 1971), a fashion designer; and James (born 1977), was a guitarist (“Paul McCartney”).
James Paul McCartney, he is the most loved and maligned Beatle. McCartney loved and had many contributions to pop-rock. McCartney also does amazing in his solo career, over thirty-four years Paul McCartney has sold more then twenty albums. McCartney has created many tunes over the course of thirty-four years such as pop, firery rockers, and classics that compete shoulder to shoulder with songs he wrote when was still in The Beatles. McCartney said himself he wrote some of his best songs while working with The Beatles (“Paul McCartney”).
Paul McCartney is one extremely gifted and talented man. McCartney help bring rock and roll to life, he gave it a meaning. A Beatle at heart and yet today he continues to write songs, poetry, and keep his solo career alive playing and producing songs. Paul McCartney has what it takes to be a rock star today, he still is in a lot of people’s eyes.
