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McCARTNEY WITH... MICHAEL JACKSON
OF ALL PAUL MCCARTNEY’S COLLABORATIONS, THE ONE FOR WHICH HE’LL BE BEST REMEMBERED IS WITH JOHN LENNON – BUT HE DIDN’T DO TOO BADLY WITH MICHAEL JACKSON
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Michael Jackson: “It was lots of throwing stuff at each other, and making jokes”
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McCARTNEY WELCOME
OF THE COPIOUS COLUMN INCHES DEDICATED TO THE BEATLES, LITTLE OR NOTHING HAS BEEN LEFT TO FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS UNEXAMINED. BUT, REGARDLESS OF THAT OFTEN EXCESSIVE SCRUTINY, THERE REMAINS A NAGGING FEELING THAT SOMETHING’S MISSING… WE KNOW THE BAND INSIDE OUT, BUT DO WE REALLY KNOW THE SUM OF ITS PARTS? A KIND OF MARTYRDOM WAS IMPOSED UPON JOHN LENNON, BUT MCCARTNEY’S REPUTATION IS MORE COMPLEX. WHO IS THE MAN BEHIND THOSE AFFABLE, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY “TWO THUMBS ALOFT” GESTURES?
DECADES
Riding In The Sky
OF ALL THE BEATLES, PAUL MCCARTNEY WAS REGARDED AS THE ONE WITH THE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. HE WAS, THEREFORE, ALSO ARGUABLY THE ONE UNDER MOST PRESSURE TO SUCCEED IN THE SEVENTIES. BUT DID HE? WELL, HE DID AND HE DIDN’T…
COMING UP AGAIN
HE MADE HISTORY IN THE SIXTIES AND FORMED ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS OF THE SEVENTIES. WHAT DID PAUL MCCARTNEY DO FOR AN ENCORE IN THE EIGHTIES? WELL, HE HAD TO ENDURE THE LOSS OF A FELLOW BEATLE AND COPE WITH DRUG BUSTS AND CRITICAL DISDAIN – AND THAT’S JUST FOR STARTERS…
KEY RECORDINGS
COMING UP (1980) It is astonishing to think
HIS BRAVE FACE
In Tokyo: it would be the 1990s before
BACK IN THE SUN
AFTER THE DEVASTATION OF LOSING LINDA AT THE END OF THE NINETIES, THE NEW MILLENNIUM HERALDED A DECADE OF CHANGES FOR PAUL MCCARTNEY, BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY – AND THERE WERE A FEW COSTLY MISTAKES LURKING AMIDST THE CHAOS AND THE CREATION…
NOTHING TO LOSE
IN THE DECADE HE TOASTED HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY, SIR PAUL SHOWED FEW SIGNS OF CREATIVE FATIQUE, TEAMING UP WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST CUTTING-EDGE ARTISTS…
DAYS LIKE THESE
HE’S BEEN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS MUSICIANS FOR 60 YEARS, AND THE GONGS AND AWARDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR-LANDSLIDE LEVELS – YET PAUL MCCARTNEY HAS GRABBED EVERY CHANCE TO PROVE HE CAN STILL ROCK THOSE CLASSIC SONGS LIKE A TEENAGER…
KEY RECORDINGS
A ‘deep fake’ young Macca from the Find
COLLABORATIONS
McCARTNEY WITH... STEVIE WONDER
THEIR PARTNERSHIP IS DEFINED BY THEIR POLARISING DUET EBONY AND IVORY, BUT PAUL AND STEVIE WONDER’S KINSHIP EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THEIR UBIQUITOUS HIT SINGLE
Love and Liverpool
THE NINETIES WOULD BE THE DECADE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY’S VINDICATION. ARMED WITH A NEWFOUND SENSE OF EXPERIMENTALISM, HE PRODUCED SOME OF HIS MOST INTERESTING AND ECLECTIC WORK – THOUGH TRAGEDY LAY AHEAD…
McCARTNEY WITH... ELVIS COSTELLO
THE ONE-TIME ATTRACTION WAS DETERMINED NOT TO BE STAR-STRUCK BY THE ONE-TIME BEATLE, AND THIS LIVERPUDLIAN PAIRING EXPOSED A RICH SEAM OF NEW SONGS…
McCARTNEY WITH... KANYE WEST
WHEN MACCA MET YEEZY: DESPITE THE INEVITABLE SCEPTICISM, THE RESULTS OF PAUL MCCARTNEY AND KANYE WEST’S BRIEF GET-TOGETHER WERE NONE TOO SHABBY…
McCARTNEY WITH... OTHER ARTISTS
ASIDE FROM MCCARTNEY’S CLASSIC DUETS THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER FLIRTATIONS WORTHY OF MENTION, NOT LEAST HIS WORK WITH NITIN SAWHNEY – AND, ODDLY, A CELERY HABIT…
FEATURES
CLASSIC POP
UNDER THE WING © Getty Images Paul and
AND IN THE END...
BRICKS THROUGH WINDOWS! NOT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT OF BED! REACHING FOR THE WHISKY! WRITS! HITS! TIRESOME FORMER BANDMATES! ALL THESE, AND MORE, MADE UP A TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF PAUL MCCARTNEY AFTER THE BEATLES SPLIT…
JOHN VS PAUL
© Getty Images 1972, and Lennon plays
BAND ON THE RUN
PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS
BAND ON THE CHARTS
SLOW BURNER
PAUL AND THE GANG
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
ELECTRO CLASH
PAUL MCCARTNEY GOES... DANCE? YOU’D BETTER BELIEVE IT. HAVING PROVED HIMSELF ADEPT AT TURNING HIS HAND TO MANY STYLES IN THE PAST, IT WAS WITH THE FIREMAN WHERE HE REALLY WENT FOR IT – EVEN IF HE DIDN’T ADMIT TO IT FOR A WHILE
WORKING CLASSICAL HERO
HAVING PIONEERED THE INTEGRATION OF CLASSICAL AND POP UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF GEORGE MARTIN, IT WAS OVER 25 YEARS BEFORE MCCARTNEY FELT ASSURED ENOUGH TO FULLY IMMERSE HIMSELF IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD…
IN HIS OWN WORDS
WHETHER IT’S THE ART OF SONGWRITING, PHILOSOPHY, ANIMAL RIGHTS AND VEGETARIANISM, OR SIMPLY TO CONFIRM THAT HE’S STILL WITH US, PAUL MCCARTNEY HAS ALWAYS HAD A WAY WITH WORDS…
CLASSIC POP MOMENTS
A FINE REBOOT FOR LIVE 8 JULY 2
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