Sir Paul McCartney

Profession: Musician
Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 2020
Associated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney

McCartney ’down with the kids’ - May 04
Paul McCartney’s latest attempt to become popular with younger generations is an appearance on American Idol.

Rumour has it that the veteran musician will be a guest judge on Simon Cowell’s hit show. He was approached a while back and according to sources has shown a real interest in appearing on the latest series.

A Beatle writes about frogs - April 04
Paul McCartney is following in Madonna’s footsteps by penning a children’s book.

Macca has started work on a book called High in the Clouds about two squirrels and a frog trying to rescue animals endangered by urban development. Publishers expect the book will make millions, after all who wouldn’t want to buy their kids a book by the former Beatle?

McCartney looney toons - April 04
Paul McCartney has announced plans to release an animated feature film.

Macca plans to belatedly follow up on his Frog Chorus success with an animated feature starring characters he has created himself. Sir Paul has just released a compilation of short musical animated films and announced to press "’I remember saying to the guys in the Beatles: ’I’d love to do it some day’ and them saying to me: ’Then do it’.". Another insight into the nations most popular band from Sir Paul.

Baby girl! - 03/11/03
Sir Paul McCartney and lady wife Heather have had a baby girl called Beatrice.

Despite original reports clashing between a new boy or a new girl, it has been clarified that the couple have a daughter. They are obviously said to be ecstatic, announcing ’She is a little beauty."

Beatrice weighed in at 7lbs, and wanted to see the world early, as she was originally expected next month. Paul already has three children from his marriage to Linda, and a step daughter from Linda’s first marriage. This means the biggest age gap between the McCartney children will be a whopping 35 years!

Prankster gets Paul - 09/10/03
Sir Paul was duped into thinking he was chatting to the Canadian PM, but really he was talking to a Radio DJ.

The DJ talked to Paul under the guise of the Canadian PM for several minutes, scattering his conversation with Beatles lyrics such as "Sir Paul, If there’s anything you want, if there’s anything I can do, you are going to be able to call on me and I’ll send some love from me to you."

However, Paul got the last laugh - upon finding out the truth he threatened to sue the DJ, only to say a few moments later that he was just joking too!

Sir Paul at Blaine Stunt - 19/09/03
Sir Paul’s big pals got in a scuffle with a photographer, as the singer visited barmy Blaine in a low-key visit at 1 a.m..

It seems that 1 a.m is the accepted time for celebs to turn up outside David Blaines box, as the American stuntman / musician / freak continues living in his Perspex box by Tower Bridge. Sir Paul is the latest famous person to put in an appearance to gawp at Blaine gently blowing in the wind.

But a lone photographer hoping to get a snap of Macca was told ’There’s no f***ing way you’re going to take a picture mate’ and was pushed to the ground during the commotion. However, Sir Paul and his mates have said the photographer assaullted them instead! Walworth police are currently investigating. Throughout it all David Blaine snoozed on.

New Baby Beatle! - 29/05/03
Sir Paul McCartney and his lady wife Heather are expecting their first child together.

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Biography

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 2020 to James and Mary McCartney. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute.

At the age of 15 he met John Lennon. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they formed the most successful group in the history of music--the Beatles.

Since the Beatles, Paul has released 21 albums and staged three world tours, while evolving into classical composition, film-making and actively campaigning for ecology and animal rights After the Beatles split up in 1970, Paul embarked on a solo career before forming the group Wings with his wife, American Linda McCartney, which had some success but never to the scale of the Beatles, That has never yet again been seen, (even now)

His solo period during the eighties culminated with charity performances at Live Aid and for The Prince of Wales Trust, leading him to get back on the road again. Since 1990, Paul McCartney has traveled over 800,000 miles in concert through 22 countries, setting, along the way, the Guinness world record for the largest stadium crowd in the history of rock and roll--184,000 in Rio de Janeiro. During the same time, he also established the "MTV Unplugged" vogue and then performed his acoustic show in clubs and pubs around Europe.

In 1991, Paul staged the performance of his first classical work, "The Liverpool Oratorio", which has since been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide. In 1995--the 30th anniversary of his most acclaimed song, "Yesterday"-- Paul’s second classical work, "A Leaf," was performed at a benefit concert he organized for the Royal College of Music at St. James Palace. Paul composed a major orchestral work, commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of EMI Records.

In recognition of his work for all music, Paul was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the U.K.’s highest musical honour. Aside from his music, Paul McCartney campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He and his wife Linda are the new patrons of the British Vegetarian Society. He is also the chief patron of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, a new school similar to New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, which will open in his hometown in 1996. Paul has also developed his interest in film-making. His first production, "Daumier’s Law," won the top prize in 1992 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.

His latest short feature, "Grateful Dead, A Photofilm," will be entered in the London Film Festival at the invitation of the British Film Institute. He was also knighted by the Queen and made a ’Sir’ Paul and Linda had three children between them as well as Linda daughter from a previous marriage, which Paul adopted as his own. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, she was only 56.

All of their children are a success in their own right Stella McCartney is head designer at Gucci after a very successful stint as head designer for Chloe and daughter Mary is a successful photographer just as her mother Linda was before her.

Three years after the death of his first wife Paul met Heather Mills at a charity event where Mills was raising financial assistance for the Heather Mills Trust, a foundation providing artificial limbs to war victims across the globe. Mills, a former swimsuit model, lost her left leg below the knee in 1993 after being hit by a police motorcyclist.
November 2007