Paul McCartney-A Career Artist

1960

The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, West Germany, with Stu Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums.

1960

A quartet comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best (later replaced by Ringo Starr) performs as “the Beatles” for the first time in Hamburg, Germany.

1961

The Beatles make their debut at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

1961

Local record store manager Brian Epstein is introduced to the Beatles. He soon signs a contract to manage them.

1962

Stu Sutcliffe dies of a brain hemorrhage.

1962

The Beatles audition for George Martin at Parlophone/EMI Records. He agrees to sign the group, but insists that Pete Best be replaced. Within months, Richard “Ringo” Starkey joins the group.

1962

The Beatles record their first sessions at EMI Studios in London, with George Martin as producer.

A Career Artist

Paul McCartney through the ages.

Linda Louis McCarthy

Miss McCarthy, born on September 24 1941 was Paul's first love and wife and was an American musician and photographer. She married Paul in 1969 during this break up with the Beatles and later joined him in Wings. Within the same year, McCarthy adopted her daughter, Heather Louis as well as bore three children with her: Mary Anna, Stella Nina and James Louis.

The Wings

In 1971 Paul McCarthy joined a new band to which he was loyal for the next ten years called Wings consisting of a drummer, Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine as well as wife Linda Louis McCarthy. From 1974 until 1999 Paul McCarthy and Wings engaged in touring world wide tours (such as a 13 month run of 'Wings over America' beginning in the U.K and eventually venturing off to America. With their success of 'Band on the Run', which hit the top of the U.S album charts in 1974 and remained there for the next four weeks, came a new chapter of success for McCarthy. In 1977, "Mull of Kintyre" supposes the Beatles "She loves you" as the best-selling U.K. single of all time, toping all U.K charts for nine weeks. With his on going success, McCarthy was knighted by Queen Elizabeth as well as awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy ceremony in Los Angles in 1990. In 1999 Pal McCarthy was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the fourteenth annual induction dinner.

1960-1962

Within the course of two years, Paul McCartney's life changed forever.

To Conclude

1942.

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England where he attended Stockton Wood Road Primary School. In 1953, he passed the 11-plus exam, with only three others out of ninety examinees, gaining admission to the Liverpool Institute.

In 1954, he met schoolmate George Harrison on the bus to the Institute from his suburban home in Speke. This would be the start to one of the most successful music careers in history.

Paul McCartney is considered one of the most successful and talented artist of all time. With his success with the Beatles and finally with Wings, he truly is a phenomenal Career Artist.

1957

Already being musically talented, playing both the piano and guitar, Paul met John Lennon at age 15 at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton on 6 July 1957. The Quarrymen played a mix of rock and roll and skiffle, a type of popular music with jazz, blues and folk influences. The band invited McCartney to join soon afterward as a rhythm guitarist, and he formed a close working relationship with Lennon.

Harrison joined in 1958 as lead guitarist, followed by Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe on bass, in 1960. By May 1960 the band had tried several names, including Beatles, Johnny and the Moondogs and the Silver Beetles. They adopted the name the Beatles in August 1960 and recruited drummer Pete Best shortly before a five-engagement residency in Hamburg.

1970

1964-1965

Within the next two years of their Career, the Beatles became a sensation that would change whose music would influence and revolutionize the music industry and how across the globe. In 1964, the group began their first U.S tour at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C. The same year, London is granted with the world premiere of 'A Hard Day's Night. Only a year later after their debut of booming success and fame, The Beatles performed infrom of over 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City. Likewise, they are awarded England's prestigious MBE (Members of the Order of the British Empire).

What goes up, must come down.

As anticipated, such fame and success did not last forever. While their fame and influence continued to flourish, in the summer of 1970, the group announced that they would be splitting up and would be making their last performance on the roof of ‘The Apple Building’ (a business The Beatles began In an attempt to take control of their own creative and economic destiny). Paul attributed his slip from the group due to "personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

https://www.rockhall.com/story-of-rock/timelines/paul-mccartney/basic/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney