His younger brother, Michael, later changed his name to Mike McGear and had a number of hits in the satirical rock group Scaffold. Her death from breast cancer in October 1956, when McCartney was age 14, had a profound effect on his life and was the inspiration for his ballad “ Let It Be” (1970). McCartney’s father, James, worked in the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, and his mother, Mary, was a midwife, out at all hours on her bicycle to deliver babies. He is also one of the most popular solo performers of all time in terms of both sales of his recordings and attendance at his concerts.
Paul McCartney, in full Sir James Paul McCartney, (born June 18, 1942, Liverpool, England), British vocalist, songwriter, composer, bass player, poet, and painter whose work with the Beatles in the 1960s helped lift popular music from its origins in the entertainment business and transform it into a creative, highly commercial art form.
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