Paul McCartney (James Paul McCartney, 1942, Liverpool, England) composer, singer, guitarist, was one of the 4 members of the most famous rock group of all time, the Beatles.
He sold about 25 million records.
Career
1957. Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and enters his band: The Quarrymen.
1960. The band, with Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Pete Best, records his first album, "My Bonnie".
Success with the Beatles
1962. Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best. The first successful record is "Love Me Do" and from 1962 to 1970 the Beatles have a huge success.
1970 Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles.
1975. The Beatles dissolve legally and definitively.
Personal matters
Paul McCartney suffered from depression after leaving the Beatles and in 2014 had to cancel a concert in Japan for contracting a virus.
Personal success
After leaving the Beatles, Paul McCartney has always tried to change his music and style.
1970 The "McCartney" Album is a great success
1975 The "Venus and Mars" album goes up to the first places in the standings
1992 Start a collaboration with Stevie Wonder and the Album Ebony and Ivory "is in first place in the charts.
2003 Start a tour in the U.S.A. who earns $ 2 million a day
2010 - 2016 Concerts in New York, Mexico, England, San Francisco.
Awards
18 Grammy Award
and other tens of minor prizes, but not less important.
Album
1970 McCartney
1971 Wild Life
1971 Ram
1973 Red Rose Speedway
1975 Venus and Mars
1976 Wings at the Speed of Sound
1978 London Town
1979 Back to the Egg
1980 McCartney II
1982 Tug of War
1983 Pipes of Peace
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street
1986 Press to Play
1989 Flowers in the Dirt
1991 Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratory
1993 Off the Ground
1997 Flaming Pie
1997 Standing Stone
1999 Working Classical
2001 Driving Rain
2005 Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
2006 Ecce Cor Meum
2007 Memory Almost Full
20011 Ocean's Kingdom
2013 New
Best Songs
Yesterday
Maybe I'm Amazed
My Love
House Of Wax