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19. James Paul McCartney, was born June 18, 1942 at Walton Hospital where his mother had worked as a nurse. Walton Hospital is in the northern part of Liverpool not far from Paul's teen-age home at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool.
20. Paul McCartney grew up in working-class Liverpool. His father, James, led the Jim Mac Jazz Band in the 1920s. A few months after his mother, Mary, died of breast cancer in 1956, Paul bought his first guitar and learned to play. In June 1956 he met Lennon and asked to join his band, the Quarrymen
21. In the years of the Beatles' greatest popularity, Paul was generally regarded as the best-looking and was the one who aroused most interest in female audiences. Ironically, he was the last to marry
22. In the latter years of the Beatles' reign over pop-culture, McCartney wrote several universal ballads such as "Hey Jude", "Let It Be", and "The Long and Winding Road".
23. After the Beatles broke up, Paul immediately began a solo career, literally driving around Britain in a van, looking for somewhere to perform with his makeshift new band. That band developed into Wings and produced a number of notable singles, including "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Band on the Run," "Uncle Albert," "Live and Let Die," and "Listen To What The Man Said“.
24. Paul and his wife became outspoken vegetarians and animal-rights activists after owning cattle and watching them outside the window as they cooked and ate meat; in 1991, Linda introduced her own line of vegetarian meals to the general market.
25. On March 11, 1997, Paul, suddenly Sir Paul McCartney, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and in 1999 was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist (he was inducted with the rest of the Beatles in 1988).
26. Paul and Linda had three children - one, Stella McCartney, is an award winning fashion designer and animal rights activist.
27. He married Heather Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner, in June 2002 in a highly elaborate ceremony at a castle in rural Ireland. Under her influence, he has campaigned against landmines himself, and donated substantial sums to the cause. In early 2003, for example, he held a personal concert for the wife of banker Ralph Whitworth and donated one million dollars to Adopt-a-Landmine. Mills and McCartney had their first child, Beatrice Millie, on 28 October 2003. In April 2006, the couple announced they were separating amid tabloid speculation about the state of their four year marriage.
28. Paul McCartney continues to tour throughout the United States and the rest of the world. McCartney says he hopes to keep playing even after he is 67.
29. Achievements & World Records appears in the Guinness Book of Records several times. Once for "Yesterday" which is listed as the most covered song in history with over 3000 versions existing. Once, for being the most successful popular-music composer and recording artist ever with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold disks. A third time for having the largest stadium audience in history when 184,000 paid to see him perform at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on April 1990. The fourth time is for having the fastest ticket sales in history, which took place in 1993 when 20,000 tickets for 2 shows in Sydney, Australia sold out in eight minutes. "Yesterday" was confirmed as world's most popular song with 6,000,000 airplays in the USA. received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Sussex. the first rock musician ever to receive Chile's Order of Merit for "services to music, peace, and human understanding". first recipient of the Swedish Polar Music Award ("Nobel prize for music").
