Paul(above) and his brother Mike(bellow)
Found some fab pics of Paul! there really cute!
Some I havnt seen before!
(from left to right) Mary, Paul, and Mike*left to right* Paul and Mike
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James Paul McCartney,
Sir Paul McCartney was born James Paul McCartney in Liverpool in 1942. His father, Jim McCartney worked as a cotton salesman and his mother, Mary, worked as a nurse and midwife. Paul’s dad had a talent for music too, and was a keen pianist: he even had his own band, called Jim Mac’s Jazz Band. Paul’s younger brother, Michael, is better known as Mike McGear, the Liverpool poet who belongs to a group called The Scaffold. Mike uses the stage name McGear so as not to capitalise on his older brother’s fame.
Growing up in Liverpool just after World War II, Paul enjoyed a happy and uneventful childhood and showed an early gift for music and also for art. He did well at primary school and was one of only four pupils in his year to pass the 11+ exam. His success earned him a place at the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Boys, which he attended from 1953 until 1960. Paul left school having passed “A” levels in English and Art.
Paul’s happy childhood came to an abrupt end when he was 14-years-old, and his beloved mother died very suddenly and unexpectedly from breast cancer. Paul was devastated by this tragic loss and turned to music and writing songs in order to try and come to terms with his mother’s death.
A short while later, he was performing music at a local church fete, when he happened to meet a fellow budding musician called John Lennon. At that time, John had already formed his own band, called The Quarrymen, and he was so impressed by Paul’s guitar skills and versatile singing ability that he invited him to come and join his band. Over the course of the next few years, John Lennon added George Harrison and Pete Best to the line-up, and the band changed its name to The Beatles. The rest, as they say, is history.
In the beginning, the band played most of their gigs in their home town Liverpool, at a venue called The Cavern Club, and made a brief foray over to Germany, where they played in Hamburg. By the end of 1961, the boys had decided that they needed to find a manager, and chose local businessman Brian Epstein for the job. Epstein was a skilful entrepreneur and helped the boys to improve their image and make the most of their raw, unpolished talents. Epstein also replaced drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr, and helped the boys secure a recording contract with EMI. Paul became the lead vocalist with The Beatles, as well as playing a variety of instruments, including bass guitar, acoustic and electric guitar, piano and keyboards. He reportedly also played upwards of three dozen other musical instruments.
Paul was not only a multi-talented instrumentalist, he was also a gifted songwriter, and he and John Lennon wrote many of the hit songs together during the Beatles years. Back in 1957, whilst they were still both teenagers, John and Paul agreed that every song they wrote together would have 50/50 ownership, and they stuck to this agreement in later years, despite the fact that such an oral contract wasn’t legally binding, as they were still both minors.
Even though both John and Paul wrote a great many songs individually, over 200 songs that were recorded by The Beatles are still formally credited to both men. Many of the songs evolved during the band’s jamming sessions: the 1963 classic number, “I Want To Hold Your Hand” is one such song. Paul’s most famous songs have all become classics: perhaps the most famous of these are Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, When I’m 64, and Blackbird. “Yesterday” is arguably perhaps the most famous song ever written, since over 3,000 cover versions of it have been recorded by hundreds of artists, since it was first published. Many of the Beatles songs and cover images were quite political, and promoted values of peace, freedom and the liberation of the imagination.
As well as revolutionising the music of the day, The Beatles’ music and style had a massive impact on popular culture. As a band, they were massively popular, particularly with teenage girls, and tended to be greeted by hysterical crowds of screaming fans whenever they arrived in a city to play a gig. This phenomenon soon became known as “Beatlemania”! Everything about them, their clothes, their hairstyles, was widely copied. It might well be said that they were the original “boy band”.
In 1967, the band suffered a terrible loss, when their manager Brian Epstein died. From that point onwards, the Beatles began to lose their unified creative focus, and all four members began to develop their individual creative ambitions. In 1969, Paul married his first wife Linda, whom he’d met in a London nightclub called The Bag O’Nails. Linda was a musician too, and quite soon after his marriage, Paul formed his own band, called Wings. Paul’s first solo album, “Maybe I’m Amazed” was a number One hit, and his new band Wings soon became one of the most successful groups in the world during the 1970s; the album “Band On The Run” won two Grammy Awards. In 1977, Wings released “Mull of Kintyre”, which was No. One in the UK charts for nine weeks, and became the highest selling single record for seven years. In 1979, Paul teamed up with fellow musician Elvis Costello to help organise benefit concerts for the people of Cambodia.
As the 1980s dawned, Paul encountered a run of bad luck. In 1980, he was arrested in Tokyo for possession of marijuana, and spent ten days in jail. This scandalous event provoked a massive media response throughout the world, and when Paul was released from prison, he retreated into seclusion for the major part of the following year. Fate also struck a tragic blow in December 1980, when his former song writing buddy and fellow Beatle John Lennon was killed by an assassin’s bullet outside his apartment building in New York. The tragedy caused Paul to retreat still further from the public eye, and he did not appear in public again until 1982, when he released his new album, “Tug Of War”.
Paul pursued a highly successful career as a solo recording artist, and also found time to explore different forms of musical composition. During the 1990s, he composed several pieces of classical music for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, including “The Liverpool Oratorio”, which was written for a choir and symphony orchestra, and a work for solo piano entitled “A Leaf”. In 1994, the three surviving members of The Beatles re-united and produced John Lennon’s unpublished song “Free As A Bird”, which had been preserved by Yoko Ono on a tape recording made in 1977.
Sadly, in 1995, Linda was diagnosed the breast cancer, the same disease that had claimed the life of Paul’s mother: Paul nursed Linda during her illness, and she fought the disease bravely, but to no avail. Linda died in April 1998, after she and Paul had been married for almost 30 years. Shattered by his loss, Paul retreated into seclusion once again. In 2000, Paul released the album “A Garland For Linda”, which was a tribute album, the proceeds of which were donated to help survivors of cancer. In 1997, Paul became Sir Paul McCartney, when he was knighted by the Queen.
Since Linda’s death, Paul has pursued both his interest in classical music, and his own solo recording career. He released a classical album, “Working Classical” at the end of 1999, and an album of rock’n’roll covers called “Run Devil Run”, also in 1999. His latest classical album, “Ecco Cor Meum” (Behold My Heart) was widely acclaimed, and was also voted Classical Album of The Year in 2007.
INFO:
The Beatles in the Austrian Alps for their 2nd movie, HELP!. (left to right) John, Paul, Ringo, and George.
This is like the first one.
Ringo at the top then George then John then Paul. Paul doesnt look to happy!
During HELP!
HELP!
Well back to school! some may like it others may not!
John at his school! He may be about 7 or 8.
Here is a link, this guy i think was at the same school as the Beatles! Might find this enteresting!:
http://beatles.ncf.ca/beatschool.html
Paul and his brother Mike-Joseph Williams Primary School and then the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
George- Dovedale Primary School and then the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
Ringo- Liverpool Secondary Modern School
John-Quarry Bank Grammar School (this is where the name “Querrymen” same from (John’s grooup before becomeing the beatles))
John (teenager)
George (teenager)
Where's the baby Beatle? Keen eyed fans may be able to spot a young Paul McCartney, far left, reading a comic
Find Little Paulie in this Pic! Hes Not looking at the camera!
Imagine all the people: Can you spot John Lennon (six rows back, seven from left) in this school picture from 1957?
^ Find John Lennon!!
George Harrison - George is on the back row, second from the left. The photo is from about 1949/50.
<George was about 6 years old. Find him!
Beatles at school
George- lost interest really quick and quit school in High School
John- Got kicked out of Kindergarden, and other schools, most of the time.
Paul- he graduated from school! and did well at shcool!
Ringo- by the age of 16 he could barly read or write. was in the hospital most of his life. (poor Ringo!)
Paul McCartney
Ringo (Richard) Starr (Starkey)
These are their homes in their 2nd movie HELP!
that is Ringo’s Side of the room!
Paul’s Side!
George’s Side!!
John’s Side! (dont you just love his bed!!!)
All are sleeping in this picture!
John Winston Lennon. born 9 October 1940
John and his Uncle Goerge!
Baby John!
Johnny!
FACT: John and George were deathly scared of the dentist so before they both went they would buy eachother a gift.
Summer with the Beatles! some summer pics of the Beatles!…
George at the beach
George is at the beach(left)
The Beatles
ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW:
According to reknown Beatles author Mark Lewisohn, this is the Beatles’ first-ever radio interview. Lewisohn accurately describes it as rare and fascinating, not just for historical importance, but also because it’s wonderfully intriguing.
At the time of this 1962 interview, the Beatles are still making regular visits to Hamburg, and Ringo Starr is so new to the group that he’s still keeping track of how long he’s been a Beatle by the number of weeks! This interview takes place following the release of their first single ‘Love Me Do,’ and before the final version of ‘Please Please Me’ had been arrived at. At the time of this interview they have not yet had a #1 hit. It is a rare glimpse of the early Beatles, recorded on October 28th 1962 at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight, on the Wirral in England.
The interview was recorded for Radio Clatterbridge, a closed-circuit radio station serving Cleaver and Clatterbridge Hospitals, on the Wirral. Monty Lister was responsible for two of the shows on this station: Music With Monty, and Sunday Spin. The days of the Beatles’ more widely broadcast radio interviews were still in the future at this time.
This new group of youngsters is interviewed by Monty Lister, with additional questions from Malcolm Threadgill and Peter Smethurst.
– Jay Spangler, http://www.beatlesinterviews.org
MONTY: It’s a very great pleasure for us this evening to say hello to an up-and-coming Merseyside group, The Beatles. I know their names, and I’m going to try and put faces to them. Now, you’re John Lennon, aren’t you?”
JOHN: “Yes, that’s right.”
MONTY: “What do you do in the group, John?”
JOHN: “I play harmonica, rhythm guitar, and vocal. That’s what they call it.”
MONTY: “Then, there’s Paul McCartney. That’s you?”
PAUL: “Yeah, that’s me. Yeah.”
MONTY: “And what do you do?”
PAUL: “Play bass guitar and uhh, sing? …I think! That’s what they say.”
MONTY: “That’s quite apart from being vocal?”
PAUL: “Well… yes, yes.”
MONTY: “Then there’s George Harrison.”
GEORGE: “How d’you do.”
MONTY: “How d’you do. What’s your job?”
GEORGE: “Uhh, lead guitar and sort of singing.”
MONTY: “By playing lead guitar does that mean that you’re sort of leader of the group or are you…?”
GEORGE: “No, no. Just… Well you see, the other guitar is the rhythm. Ching, ching, ching, you see.”
PAUL: “He’s solo guitar, you see. John is in fact the leader of the group.”
MONTY: “And over in the background, here, and also in the background of the group making alot of noise is Ringo Starr.”
RINGO: “Hello.”
MONTY: “You’re new to the group, aren’t you Ringo?”
RINGO: “Yes, umm, nine weeks now.”
MONTY: “Were you in on the act when the recording was made of ‘Love Me Do’?”
RINGO: “Yes, I’m on the record. I’m on the disc.”
(the group giggles)
RINGO: (comic voice) “It’s down on record, you know?”
MONTY: “Now, umm…”
RINGO: “I’m the drummer!”
(laughter)
MONTY: “What’s that offensive weapon you’ve got there? Those are your drumsticks?”
RINGO: “Well, it’s umm… just a pair of sticks I found. I just bought ’em, you know, ‘cuz we’re going away.”
MONTY: “When you say you’re going away, that leads us on to another question now. Where are you going?”
RINGO: “Germany. Hamburg. For two weeks.”
MONTY: “You have standing and great engagements over there, haven’t you?”
RINGO: “Well, the boys have been there quite alot, you know. And I’ve been there with other groups, but this is the first time I’ve been there with the Beatles.”
MONTY: “Paul, tell us. How do you get in on the act in Germany?”
PAUL: “Well, it was all through an old agent.”
(laughter)
PAUL: (chuckles) “We first went there for a fella who used to manage us, and Mr. Allan Williams of the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool. And he found the engagements so we sort of went there, and then went under our own…”
JOHN: “Steam.”
PAUL: “Steam… (laughs)
JOHN: “…as they say.”
PAUL: “As they say, afterwards, you know. And we’ve just been going backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards.”
MONTY: (surprised) “You’re not busy at all?”
PAUL: “Well yes, actually. Yes. It’s been left-leg in all the war.”
(laughter)
MONTY: “George, were you brought up in Liverpool?”
GEORGE: “Yes. So far, yes.”
MONTY: “Whereabouts?”
GEORGE: “Well, born in Wavertree, and bred in Wavertree and Speke– where the airplanes are, you know.”
MONTY: “Are you all ‘Liverpool types,’ then?”
RINGO: “Yes.”
JOHN: “Uhh… types, yes.”
PAUL: “Oh yeah.”
RINGO: “Liverpool-typed Paul, there.”
MONTY: “Now, I’m told that you were actually in the same form as young Ron Wycherley…”
RINGO: “Ronald. Yes.”
MONTY: “…now Billy Fury.”
RINGO: “In Saint Sylus.”
MONTY: “In which?”
RINGO: “Saint Sylus.”
JOHN: “Really?”
RINGO: “It wasn’t Dingle Bay like you said in the Musical Express.”
PAUL: “No, that was wrong. Saint Sylus school.”
MONTY: “Now I’d like to introduce a young disc jockey. His name is Malcolm Threadgill, he’s 16-years old, and I’m sure he’d like to ask some questions from the teenage point of view.”
MALCOLM: “I understand you’ve made other recordings before on a German label.”
PAUL: “Yeah.”
MALCOLM: “What ones were they?”
PAUL: “Well, we didn’t make… First of all we made a recording with a fella called Tony Sheridan. We were working in a club called ‘The Top Ten Club’ in Hamburg. And we made a recording with him called, ‘My Bonnie,’ which got to number five in the German Hit Parade.”
JOHN: “Ach tung!”
PAUL: (giggles) “But it didn’t do a thing over here, you know. It wasn’t a very good record, but the Germans must’ve liked it a bit. And we did an instrumental which was released in France on an EP of Tony Sheridan’s, which George and John wrote themselves. That wasn’t released here. It got one copy. That’s all, you know. It didn’t do anything.”
MALCOLM: “You composed ‘P.S. I Love You’ and ‘Love Me Do’ yourself, didn’t you? Who does the composing between you?”
PAUL: “Well, it’s John and I. We write the songs between us. It’s, you know… We’ve sort of signed contracts and things to say, that now if we…”
JOHN: “It’s equal shares.”
PAUL: “Yeah, equal shares and royalties and things, so that really we just both write most of the stuff. George did write this instrumental, as we say. But mainly it’s John and I. We’ve written over about a hundred songs but we don’t use half of them, you know. We just happened to sort of rearrange ‘Love Me Do’ and played it to the recording people, and ‘P.S. I Love You,’ and uhh, they seemed to quite like it. So that’s what we recorded.”
MALCOLM: “Is there anymore of your own compositions you intend to record?”
JOHN: “Well, we did record another song of our own when we were down there, but it wasn’t finished enough. So, you know, we’ll take it back next time and see how they like it then.”
(long pause)
JOHN: (jokingly) “Well… that’s all from MY end!”
(laughter)
MONTY: “I would like to just ask you– and we’re recording this at Hume Hall, Port Sunlight– Did any of you come over to this side before you became famous, as it were? Do you know this district?”
PAUL: “Well, we played here, uhh… I don’t know what you mean by famous, you know.
(laughter)
PAUL: “If being famous is being in the Hit Parade, we’ve been over here– we were here about two months ago. Been here twice, haven’t we?”
JOHN: “I’ve got relations here. Rock Ferry.”
MONTY: “Have you?”
JOHN: “Yes. Oh, all sides of the water, you know.”
PAUL: “Yeah, I’ve got a relation in Claughton Village– Upton Road.”
RINGO: (jokingly) “I’ve got a friend in Birkenhead!”
(laughter)
MONTY: “I wish I had.”
GEORGE: (jokingly) “I know a man in Chester!”
(laughter)
MONTY: “Now, that’s a very dangerous thing to say. There’s a mental home there, mate. Peter Smethurst is here as well, and he looks like he is bursting with a question.”
PETER: “There is just one question I’d like to ask. I’m sure it’s the question everyone’s asking. I’d like your impressions on your first appearence on television.”
PAUL: “Well, strangely enough, we thought we were gonna be dead nervous. And everyone said, ‘You suddenly, when you see the cameras, you realize that there are two million people watching,’ because there were two million watching that ‘People And Places’ that we did… we heard afterwards. But, strangely enough, it didn’t come to us. We didn’t think at all about that. And it was much easier doing the television than it was doing the (live musical performance) radio. It’s still nerve-wracking, but it was a bit easier than doing radio because there was a full audience for the radio broadcast.”
MONTY: “Do you find it nerve-wracking doing this now?”
(laughter)
PAUL: (jokingly) “Yeah, yeah.”
MONTY: “Over at Cleaver Hospital, a certain record on Parlophone– the top side has been requested. So perhaps the Beatles themselves would like to tell them what it’s going to be.”
PAUL: “Yeah. Well, I think it’s gonna be ‘Love Me Do.'”
JOHN: “Parlophone R4949.”
(laughter)
PAUL: “‘Love Me Do.'”
MONTY: “And I’m sure, for them, the answer is P.S. I love you!”
PAUL: “Yeah.”
George enjoying a meal!
George Harrison, known as the quiet one, was born in Liverpool England at his home at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree which was a small 2 up, 2 down terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with an alley to the rear, on February 25, 1943. His dad, Harold Harrison, was a bus driver and his mum, Louise Harrison, was a Liverpool shop assistant. He had 3 older siblings, Louise(16 August 1931), Harold(1934), and Peter(20 July 1940). George grew up in there house untill he was 6 years old. At 12 Arnold Grove the only heating was a single coal fire, and the toilet was outside. In 1950 the family were offered a council house and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.
George became interested in music at age 13 (same here with me!!). His mother found drawings of guitars in his pants pockets, and she bought him his first guitar.
This is from their 2nd movie HELP!
George Harrison!
His first school was Dovedale Primary School, very close to Penny Lane the same school as John Lennon who was a couple of years ahead of him. He passed his 11-plus examination and achieved a place at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building that now houses the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts) which he attended from 1954 to 1959. George said that, when he was 12 or 13, he had an “epiphany” of sorts – riding a bike around his neighbourhood, he heard Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” playing from a nearby house and was hooked.[20] Even though he did well enough on his 11-plus examination to get into the city’s best high school, from that point on, the former good student lost interest in school. When Harrison was 14 years old, he sat at the back of the class and tried drawing guitars in his schoolbooks: “I was totally into guitars. I heard about this kid at school who had a guitar at £3 10s, it was just a little acoustic round hole. I got the £3 10s from my mother: that was a lot of money for us then.” Harrison bought a Dutch Egmond flat top acoustic guitar. While at the Liverpool Institute, Harrison formed a skiffle group called The Rebels with his brother Peter and a friend, Arther Kelly. At this school he met Paul McCartney, who was one year older. McCartney later became a member of John Lennon’s band called The Quarrymen, which Harrison joined in 1958.
George at 6 years went to Dovetale then became very good friends with Paul McCartney. Who also took the bus to their school, Liverpool Institute for Boys, and they found they both had interest in music! Paul right now was with the group called The Querrymen started by John Lennon. Paul asked John if George could join their little group, but John said “no” cos he was to young, George was only 14. But George hung around the group filling in the guitarist that didn’t show up. George, to John, was the “kid who always hung around” but John later invited the 16 year old George to join the group! George John Paul (drummer Pete Best)
George's first giutar
George Harrison was the youngest of the four Beatles and the youngest of four children in his family! He and his fellow beatle mates played in movies, A Hard Days Night and HELP!. George had his first song written in their movie HELP! called Don’t Bother Me. George also got into Indian music from HELP! and he started playing the sitar, when they went to India, in 1968, he took lessons from Ravi Shankar.
During their fourth film, Let It Be, George and the others got into an argument about that George wasn’t doing this right and that. George later just walked out.
This was the start of there break up and George going on to a new life.
George’s Death
George Harrison died on Nov. 29, 2001. From lung cancer.
Relationships with the other Beatles:
For the most part of the Beatles career, the relationships in the group were extremely close and intimate. According to Hunter Davis, “The Beatles spent their lives not living a communal life, but communally living the same life. They were each other’s greatest friends.” Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd described how the Beatles “all belonged to each other” and admitted, “George has a lot with the others that I can never know about. Nobody, not even the wives, can break through or even comprehend it.” Ringo Starr also stated, “We really looked out for each other and we had so many laughs together. In the old days we’d have the biggest hotel suites, the whole floor of the hotel, and the four of us would end up in the bathroom, just to be with each other.” and added “There were some really loving, caring moments between four people: a hotel room here and there – a really amazing closeness. Just four guys who loved each other. It was pretty sensational.”
John Lennon stated that his relationship with George was “one of young follower and older guy.” and admitted that “[George] was like a disciple of mine when we started.”The two would often go on holiday together throughout the 60s. Their relationship took a severe turn for the worst after George published his autobiography, I Me Mine. Lennon felt insulted and hurt that George mentioned him only in passing. Lennon claimed he was hurt by the book and also that he did more for George than any of the other Beatles. As a result, George and John were not on good terms during the last years of Lennon’s life. After Lennon’s murder, George paid tribute to Lennon with his song “All Those Years Ago” which was released in 1981, six months after Lennon’s murder.
Paul McCartney has often referred to Harrison as his “baby brother”, and he did the honours as best man at George’s wedding in 1966. The two were the first of the Beatles to meet, having shared a school bus, and would often learn and rehearse new guitar chords together. McCartney stated that he and George usually shared bedrooms together while touring.
George and Pattie
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