Paul McCartney
By Kristopher Robinson
His Childhood
His Childhood
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He was born on June
18, 1942
His birthplace is
Liverpool, England.
He was baptized as
Roman Catholic
Childhood (2)
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Mary McCartney is Paul McCartney's mother
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She works as a midwife
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Roman Catholic
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She died of breast cancer when Paul McCartney was
14
Her death impacted Paul McCartney a lot.
Childhood (3)
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Jim McCartney was
Paul McCartney's father.
He worked in the
Liverpool Cotton
Exchange
He was a Protestant
Childhood (4)
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Micheal McCartney is
born on 7 January, 1944
Micheal McCartney is
Paul McCartney's
younger brother
He changed his name to
Mike McGear.
He had successful hits
with his band called
Scaffold.
His Early Music Life
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When Paul was 15, He joined the band called The
Quarryman
The band consisted of George Harrison as lead
guitarist, Stuart Sutcliff, on bass, and Pete Best on
the drums along with John Lennon and Paul
McCartney.
His Early Music Life 2
During May of the1960's, They had changed their band
name and the runner up band names were
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Johnny and the Moondogs
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Silver Beetle
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Johnny Gentle
Finally they changed their band name to The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles
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In 1960, The beatles' first performance was at a club
in Hamburg, Germany.
During the early 1962, Stuart Sutcliffe left the band
and Paul McCartney became the bass player.
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They recorded their first published music “My
Bonnie”
This brought attention to the public.
On May 1962 Pete Best was replaced by Ringo
Starr on drums
The Beatles (2)
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In 1963, The Beatles became popular in UK.
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In 1964, The Beatles became popular in the USA.
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In 1965, The Beatles gave their last commercial
performance but continued to work at the recording
studio
In 1970, The Beatles broke up.
Life after The Beatles'
Life after The Beatles'
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Paul McCartney continued his music career.
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In 1970, Paul McCartney released his solo album.
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Between 1971 and 1981, Paul McCartney joined a
group called Wings; which consisted of Denny Laine
as guitarist and Denny Seiwell as the drummer.
In 1985, McCartney played “Let It Be” at the Live
Aid concert in London
In 1990, Paul McCartney went into orchestra music
Life after The Beatles' (2)
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In 1991, the Royal Liverpool Philarmonic Society
commissioned a musical piece by McCartney to
celebrate its sesquicentennial
March 11th 1997, Paul McCartney was knighted to
Sir Paul McCartney.
On September 11th 2001, after witnessing the
September 11th attacks from the JFK Airport, he took
liberty of performing a concert for New York City.
In November 2002, McCartney performed a concert
dedicated to him called “Concert For George.
His Works
His Works
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During 1962-1970, The Beatles' group had released
twenty-four UK singles and twelve studio albums,
including “My Bonnie”
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1965: Help!
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1966: Yellow Submarine
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1968: Hey Jude
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1970: Solo album McCartney
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1971: Ram
His Works (2)
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During 1971 thru 1981, the group Wings had
released numerous successful singles and albums
including Wild Life.
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1997: Standing Stone
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1999: Working Classical
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2006: Ecce Cor Meum
Hey Jude
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This song was a
message to Julian after
his parents broke up
Title of song was
changed from Julian to
Jude because it sounded
stronger
Longest song to go
number one on the
charts back in the day.
Hey Jude (2)
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The length of this song is 07:01.
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The tempo of this song is moderately slow.
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This song has two beats.
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This song consist of four verses and two bridges, a
jamming section at (04:13) and the fading section
starting at (06:00)
My favorite part of the song is verse 4 because of
the jamming section.
Help!
This was written by John Lennon with help of Paul
McCartney
This was considered one of Lennon's favorite song as it
describe his begging for help as he was eating and
drinking too much.
This was a song about Lennon's drug problem, him
being overwhelmed of being a Celebrity and it is
basically a cry for help.
Help! (2)
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Time of song is 02:23
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The Tempo is Moderate
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This song has two beats
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It consist one
introduction, three
verses, two chorus, and
an outro.
Yellow Submarine
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Paul McCartney written
this as a Children's story.
This is not only a song
but an animated film as
well.
Some think that the
submarine is the Beatles'
expression of them
being under constant
pressure due to being
famous.
Yellow Submarine (2)
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Time of song: 02:37
The tempo is:
Moderately slow
This song has four
beats.
This song only consist
five verses.
Works Cited
Slide 3 picture is from.
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http://www.beatlemania.ca/biography/paulmacca.htm
Slide 5 picture is from
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_and_Mary_McCartney
Slide 6 and 7 picture is from
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney
Picture from Slide 11 is from
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http://www.hamburg.world-guides.com/hamburg_maps.html
Picture from Slide 18 is from
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http://doclehman.wordpress.com/2008/08/
Work Cited
Picture from Slide 21 is from
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http://lyricsvideoclips.blogspot.com/2010_09_09_archive.html
Picture from Slide 22 is from
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http://www.iamthebeatles.com/article1028.html
Quotes from Slide 22 is from
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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=106
Picture from Slide 23 is from
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_%28song%29
Works Cited
Resources used for the presentation is
http://www.biography.com/articles/Paul-McCartney-9390850?part=0
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005200/bio
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/McCartney,_Paul/Biography/
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=106