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ALBUMBand On The Run (Underdubbed Mixes)Paul McCartney & Wings
Albums by Paul McCartney
ALBUMBand On The Run (Underdubbed Mixes)Paul McCartney & Wings
ALBUMMcCartney III ImaginedPaul McCartney
ALBUMMcCartney IIIPaul McCartney
ALBUMEgypt Station (Explorer's Edition)Paul McCartney
ALBUMNEW (Deluxe Edition)Paul McCartney
ALBUMKisses On the Bottom: Complete KissesPaul McCartney
ALBUMElectric ArgumentsThe Fireman
ALBUMMemory Almost Full (Deluxe Edition)Paul McCartney
ALBUMMcCartney: Ecce Cor MeumAcademy of St Martin in the Fields & Gavin Greenaway
ALBUMChaos and Creation In the BackyardPaul McCartney
Paul McCartney's Popular Music Videos
Wonderful Christmastime
Paul McCartney
The Kiss Of Venus
Paul McCartney & Dominic Fike
Let It Be (feat. Paul McCartney) [Live at Shea Stadium, July 2008]
Billy Joel
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George)
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton
Say Say Say (feat. Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson) [Lyric Video]
Kygo
Get Back (The Speek) [Live]
Paul McCartney & Tina Turner
Maybe I'm Amazed
Paul McCartney
Who Cares
Paul McCartney
Only One (feat. Paul McCartney)
Kanye West
Find My Way
Paul McCartney & Beck
Artist Playlists
Paul McCartney Essentials
Sir Paul's best, including the new Ryan Tedder-produced "Get Enough."
Paul McCartney Video Essentials
The camera has always loved the Beatle’s legendary charisma and smile.
Paul McCartney: Love Songs
Playfully, silly, or sublime—this is the sound of Paul in love.
Paul McCartney: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Inspired by Paul McCartney
Hear some of the artists influenced by McCartney's monumental songbook.
Paul McCartney: Deep Cuts
Sir Paul's playful delights, rockers, and romances.
Paul McCartney: The Songwriters
A collection of gorgeous songcraft from Sir Paul—as played by other artists.
Paul McCartney: Influences
Inspirations that run from reckless rock to ambitious art pop.
Set List: Paul McCartney’s Got Back Tour
Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
Artist Biography
As Beatlemania was transforming rock ’n’ roll from passing teen fad to permanent pop-cultural movement, Paul McCartney (born in Liverpool in 1942) became the driving force behind the band’s rapid, dramatic maturation. In just two years, he had graduated from the Little Richard worship of 1963’s “I Saw Her Standing There” to the exquisite orchestral balladry of “Yesterday”—a shift that intensified the contrast between McCartney and his increasingly acerbic songwriting partner, John Lennon. But as The Beatles’ entered their late-’60s experimental phase—during which Lennon’s avant-garde impulses came to the fore—McCartney’s traditionalism constituted its own form of radicalism. Within the band’s psychedelic milieu, his embrace of pre-rock forms, like classical (“Eleanor Rigby”) and English music-hall serenades (“When I’m Sixty-Four”), felt no less surreal than The Beatles' use of tape-loop freak-outs and sitar drones. (And this is to say nothing of Paul's sublime bass playing, which elevated the four-string from rhythmic undercurrent to melodic focal point.) His post-Beatles albums have proven equally uncanny and influential: 1971’s art-folk opus Ram provided the lo-fi schematic for future generations of DIY home-recording artists, while the arena-rattling roar of “Jet,” from McCartney's subsequent band Wings’ 1973 LP Band on the Run, shows why he’s become a muse to hard rockers such as Dave Grohl. And by continually collaborating with the hitmakers of the day—from Michael Jackson in the 1980s to Rihanna and Kanye West in the 2010s—he has remained a voracious pop omnivore, as connected to music's past as its future.
Hometown
Liverpool, England
Genre
Rock