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Paul McCartney
Geburtstag: 18. Juni 1942
Andere Namen: Sir Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, CH, MBE ist ein britischer Musiker, Singer-Songwriter, Komponist, Oscar- sowie mehrfacher Grammy-Preisträger. Weltweit bekannt wurde er als Sänger und Bassist der Beatles, für die er zusammen mit John Lennon die meisten Stücke schrieb. Die Komponistenpartnerschaft Lennon/McCartney gilt als eine der bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten sowie McCartney selbst als der erfolgreichste Songwriter in der Geschichte der Popmusik. Sein Stück Yesterday ist der meistgespielte Popsong aller Zeiten.
Nach dem Ende der Beatles startete McCartney eine erfolgreiche Solokarriere und gründete mit seiner Ehefrau Linda die Band Wings. Seit den 1980er Jahren arbeitet er fast ausschließlich als Solokünstler und widmet sich auch neuen musikalischen Bereichen wie der elektronischen und klassischen Musik.
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„Du schadest meinem Image.“
zu John Lennon, zitiert in: DIE ZEIT, 27. November 2005, zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/online/2005/48/john_lennon_8
The banter between them, joking but with serious undertones, continued during that evening. Paul said, 'You're bad for my image!' John retorted, 'You're soft. Shurrup and watch the telly like a good boy.' - Ray Coleman: Lennon. McGraw-Hill, 1985. p. 200
„If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.“
Variante: If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
„We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.“
On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)
„And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.“
— Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Quelle: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
„To lead a better life,
I need my love to be here.
Here, making each day of the year“
"Here, There and Everywhere" form Revolver (1966) - Full lyrics at Songfacts.com http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=105
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: To lead a better life,
I need my love to be here.
Here, making each day of the year,
Changing my life with a wave of her hand.
Nobody can deny that there's something there.
„Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.“
"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
„Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again…“
"Silly Love Songs", 1976
Lyrics, Wings
Kontext: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again...
I love you.
„Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.“
"Hey Jude" (1968)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better.
„Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.“
— Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Quelle: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
„Take these broken wings and learn to fly.“
— Paul McCartney, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Quelle: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
