Life at the very top of the mountain doesn’t come without its critiques, and so, as one of the most famous people in history, Paul McCartney would have surely garnered a fair few enemies in his life. But rarely has he ever taken to song to blast them. During his time in The Beatles, he […]
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The new documentary, Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, is set to arrive in cinemas for one night only. The film explores McCartney’s life and career as he built himself up once again throughout the 1970s, following the demise of The Beatles, as well as charting the rise of Wings. Now, ahead of it being […]
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Almost every musician has a dream collaborator; even one as longstanding and legendary as a certain Sir Paul McCartney. From an outsider’s perspective, it looks like our Macca has done just about everything he’s ever set his mind to. Aside from the obvious, like performing as part of the world’s greatest-ever rock band in history […]
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Fear arrived before confidence ever had a chance. In August 1968, inside the offices of Apple Records, Mary Hopkinwaited, certain she did not belong. She was eighteen years old, newly discovered, carrying a voice that felt fragile in her own ears. Around her were names already etched into history. They were The Beatles. She was […]
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November 29, 2001. Los Angeles was quiet that morning, unaware of the weight being carried toward a single front door. Paul McCartney paused before knocking, knowing time had narrowed to its thinnest edge. There were no songs left to write together, no stages waiting. Only truth remained, and the courage to speak it. Inside, George […]
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The Beatles were Motown fanatics; there is no two ways around it. From the covers of songs like ‘Please Mister Postman’ and ‘You Really Got a Hold on Me’ to Paul McCartney’s appreciation of bassist James Jamerson, the early Beatles sound was at least partially, if not significantly, indebted to the sound coming out of […]
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When Keith Richards spoke about the main difference between The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, he was relatively straightforward with his answer. “I remember Keith Richards saying to me, ‘You had four singers. We only had one’,” said Paul McCartney, recalling the guitarist’s comments, “Little comments like that will set me off, and I think, […]
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History seemed to breathe again above the city today. Wind moved across concrete and glass as Paul McCartney stepped onto a rooftop, carrying with him an echo that first rose into the cold air of January 1969. The setting was different, the years unmistakable, yet the feeling arrived intact. Back then, four voices stood together, […]
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There’s plenty of good reasons why The Beatles chose to end things at the time they did, and the fact that the group could barely stand the sight of one another by the end of an intense decade together is perhaps at the top of that list. The two main songwriting forces in the group, […]
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When The Beatles broke up and embarked on solo careers, everyone desperately waited to see what the new situation would look like, especially for Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Not just because they were the two creative figureheads of the world’s biggest bands, now freed from the shackles of their toxic relationship, but because that […]
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