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Paul McCartney
Biography
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (b. 18 June 1942, Liverpool, England) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.
With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as the bassist of British rock band the Beatles, one of the most popular and influential groups in the history of pop music; his songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine.
McCartney has been recognised as one of the most successful composers and performers of all time, with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles of his work with the Beatles and as a solo artist. More than 2,200 artists have covered his Beatles song Yesterday, more than any other copyrighted song in history. Wings' 1977 release Mull of Kintyre is one of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Beatles in 1988, and as a solo artist in 1999), and a 21-time Grammy Award winner (having won both individually and with the Beatles), McCartney has written, or co-written 32 songs that have reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2014 he has sold more than 15.5 million RIAA-certified units in the United States. McCartney, Lennon, Harrison and Starr received MBEs in 1965, and in 1997, McCartney was knighted for his services to music.
McCartney has released an extensive catalogue of songs as a solo artist and has composed classical and electronic music. He has taken part in projects to promote international charities related to such subjects as animal rights, seal hunting, land mines, vegetarianism, poverty, and music education.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Best of the Beatles (Flex instrumentation) (with Lennon; arr. Moss) (2003/2010)
All Wind Works
- Abbey Road (with Lennon; arr. Hearshen) (1969/2009)
- All You Need Is Love (with Lennon; arr. Cable and Dedrick) (1998)
- And I Love Her (with Lennon)
- The Beatles: Echos of an Era (with Lennon; arr. Higgins) (1982)
- The Beatles: Love (with Lennon; arr. Bocook) (2008)
- Beatles Collection (with Lennon; arr. de Meij) (1982)
- Best of the Beatles (with Lennon; arr. Moss) (2003)
- Best of the Beatles (Flex instrumentation) (with Lennon; arr. Moss) (2003/2010)
- Blackbird (with Lennon; arr. Berg) (1968)
- Blackbird (with Lennon; arr. Westover) (1968)
- Can't Buy Me Love (with Lennon; arr. Murtha) (1964/2017)
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun (with Lennon; arr. Westover)
- A Hard Day's Night. See: Selections from "A Hard Day's Night"
- Hey Jude (with Lennon; arr. Bocook) (1968/1992)
- Hey Jude (with Lennon; arr. Westover) (1968)
- I Want to Hold Your Hand (with Lennon)
- Let It Be Medley (with Lennon; arr. Balent) (1970)
- Live and Let Die (arr. Murtha) (1973/2015)
- The Long and Winding Road (with Lennon; arr. Svarda) (1966)
- Martha My Dear (with Lennon; arr. Hammell) (1968/2016/2021)
- Michelle (with Lennon; arr. Wilkinson) (1965/1966)
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (with Lennon; arr. Holmes) (1968)
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (with Lennon; arr. Westover) (1968)
- Penny Lane (with Lennon; arr. Maxwell) (1967/2012)
- Pop and Rock Legends: Music of the Beatles (with Lennon; arr. Story) (2010)
- Selections from "A Hard Day's Night" (with Lennon; arr. Sweeney) (1964/1999)
- Sergeant Pepper Medley (with Lennon; arr. Avshalomov) (1967/1971)
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (with Lennon; arr. Edmondson) (1967/1978)
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (with Lennon; arr. Sweeney) (1967/2007)
- Soundtrack Highlights from "Yesterday" (with Lennon; arr Brown) (2020)
- The Symphonic Beatles (with Lennon; arr. Cacavas) (1992)
- When I'm 64 (with Lennon)
- Yellow Submarine (with Lennon)
- Yesterday (with Lennon). See also: Soundtrack Highlights from "Yesterday"