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Paul McCartney
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On June 18,
1942, James Paul
McCartney was born at Walton General Hospital
in Liverpool.
His brother, Michael, who's full name
is Peter Michael McCartney, and who later
went by the name of Mike
McGear, was born
two years later.
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His family
moved a few times, when he was 13, they moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton,
just across a golf course
and a little over one mile
away from where John lived with his Aunt Mimi. His mother Mary died of
breast cancer when he
was fourteen, while
the two brothers were
away at Boy Scout camp. Before the war, Paul's
father was a Cotton salesman
during the day, and a jazz musician with Jim Mac's Jazz Band
by night The antithesis of John Lennon as a school boy, Paul did very well
in school.
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When
Lonnie Donnegan
appeared in Liverpool and the Skiffle craze hit, Jim McCartney
scraped together £15
for a guitar for Paul. Paul's friendIvan Vaughan invited Paul to
see the Quarrymen
play in Woolton on July 6, 1957, but not really to hear the
Quarrymen, it was because Vaughan had promised Paul it would be a great
place to pick up girls,
which Paul was already
very interested in at the age of 14. Later in the afternoon,
after hearing the Quarrymen
play, Paul borrowed a guitar and impressed the
boys with all the chords and
the words to "Twenty Flight
Rock". Paul's first
impression of John was that he was
drunk But Paul wrote
down the words for "Twenty Flight
Rock" and "Be Bop a Lula" for himso
that John could learn them. A few days later
Pete Shotten told Paul the others wanted him to join the band.
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In His Own
Words On the creation of Apple, Paul said:
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"We've already
bought all our dreams.
We want to share that possibility with
others. When we were touring, and when the
adoration and hysteria
were at a peak, if we'd been the shrewd operators we were
often made out to be,
we might have thought -- that's
nice! Ah. Click. Let's use this for own
evil ends. But there's
no desire in any of our heads to take over the world. That was
Hitler. That's what he wanted to
do. There is, however, a desire to get power
in order to use
it for good."
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While speaking
about the Maharishi, Paul said:
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"I realize
now that taking drugs was like taking
an aspirin without having a headache."
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Biographical
info from the book Shout! by Philip Norman, and The Love
You Make by
Peter Brown
and Steven Gaines.
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