ABOUT PAUL McCARTNEY
Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on 18th June 1942. He was raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool Institute.
Since writing his first song at the age of 14, Paul McCartney has dreamed and dared to be different. In the sixties, as the writer and co-author of their greatest songs, he changed the world of music with The Beatles. Legendary albums include: Please Please Me, Revolver, Help!, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The White Album. Paul has continued to push boundaries over the last 30 years, first as a solo artist, then with Wings (with albums that included Band On The Run and At The Speed Of Sound) and following that as a solo artist again, with recent highlights including 2013’s global hit albumNEW. 2014 saw Paul releaseHope For the Future, the title track for the record-breaking video game Destiny.
Paul McCartney is also an accomplished award-winning classical composer. His most recent classical album Ecce CorMeum(Behold My Heart) won the Best Album Award at the Classical Brit Awards. In 2011 Paul composed the score for the New York City BalletOcean’s Kingdom.
An 18-time Grammy winner and recipient of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards, McCartney’s list of international accolades reads like no other: 2012 saw Paul adding the MusiCares Person of the Year to this unrivalled list. The award recognized both his incomparable creative achievements and his lifelong commitment to charitable work, which includes decades’ worth of philanthropic activities for PETA, LIPA, One Voice, The Vegetarian Society, Nordoff Robbins and Adopt-A-Minefield—not to mention his participation in historic benefit concerts including Live Aid in 1985, The Concert for New York City in 2001, Live 8 in 2005 and 12-12-12.
In 2010, Paul made two visits to the White House, receiving singular honors on each trip. In June of that yearhe performed in front of President Barack Obama and his family while becoming the first-ever British recipient of the prestigious Gershwin Prize For Popular Song. Paul returned to the White House that December (where even the President joked about Paul becoming a regular) to receive a Kennedy Center Honor.
Equally renowned for his live performances as he is for his songwriting, Paul McCartney has performed sold-out concerts to millions of people all over the worldwinning rave reviews along the way. In the space of 18 months his latest Out There tour, which commenced in 2013 and is still going strong, has seen him perform 63 shows in 11 different countries to almost 2 million people.
A freeman of The City Of Liverpool and Lead Patron of The Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts, Paul McCartney was appointed Fellow of The Royal College of Music in 1995 by The Prince Of Wales. In 1996 Paul McCartney was knighted by H.M. The Queen for his services to music.