Bardot was idolized by young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

It was one of few McCartney solo songs to be banned by the BBC.

" again, Lennon and McCartney prevented Orbison from going on again by physically holding him back.

* The Concert for New York City, a benefit concert with proceeds going to the families of 9 / 11 victims, is held at Madison Square Garden, featuring performances by David Bowie, Bon Jovi, Destiny's Child, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, John Mellencamp, Billy Joel, Elton John, Jay-Z, Adam Sandler, and others.

These included a grand piano salvaged from a demolition and apparently played every morning by Paul McCartney, a neighbour in Rye in East Sussex.

The islands have had their own government headed by a chief minister, the first of whom was James Alexander George Smith McCartney, since August 1976.

One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.

" The second version, told by McCartney, is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on called Notations.

While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).

After Lennon's death, McCartney once again attempted to change the order to " McCartney – Lennon " for songs such as " Yesterday " that were solely or predominantly written by him, but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive.

In 2002, McCartney released another live album, Back in the U. S. Live 2002, and the 19 Beatles ' songs included are described as " composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon ".

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

McCartney responded by saying, " I don ’ t take any notice of her.

In December 1979, Queen played the opening night at the Concert for the People of Kampuchea in London, having accepted a request by the event's organiser Paul McCartney.

The event featured the only known public airing of an experimental sound collage created for the occasion by Paul McCartney of The Beatles – the legendary Carnival of Light recording.

The track listing included covers of songs by Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Richard and Linda Thompson, Blind Willie Johnson, Tom Waits and The Low Anthem.

A part of the recorded material from the album was broadcast by Paul McCartney before his concerts.

In 1956 the village was visited by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and other famous visitors have included Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman and Paul McCartney.

McCartney provides the lead vocal for the verses and Lennon the harmony, in contrast to the Beatles ' usual practice of a song's principal composer singing lead, although Lennon sings lead in the chorus, with McCartney on harmony.

Regarding " All Things Must Pass " − and in contrast to the views of Lennon and McCartney the previous year − he told Harrison: " This particular song is so good that any honest performance by you is acceptable as far as I'm concerned ..." Spector also expressed his disapproval of the horns at the start of the track, but, as authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter have noted, " clearer heads prevailed " and Price and Bobby Keys ' contributions were retained.

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

" was memorable for McCartney, who in 1984 said that it required " a great deal of nerve to just jump up and scream like an idiot.

On a visit to Los Angeles in April, Paul McCartney played Wilson a song from the album, " She's Leaving Home "; later Wilson was said to be " deeply affected " by hearing a tape of another song, " A Day in the Life ".

* McCartney, who had just released his own album, London Town, always answered, “ No comment .” According to Innes: “ He had a dinner at some awards thing at the same table as Eric one night and Eric said it was a little frosty .” Idle claimed McCartney changed his mind because his wife Linda thought it was funny.

" Rumours started to decline when, on 7 November 1969, Life magazine published a contemporary interview with McCartney in which he said,

Paul McCartney said that Lennon gave instructions to Martin as to how he wished the orchestration to be scored, including singing most of the parts as a guide.

" In 1974, McCartney said, " That wasn't ' I buried Paul ' at all — that was John saying ' cranberry sauce '.

In a radio interview at the time, McCartney said he was not upset because Humperdinck's song was a " completely different type of thing ".

In a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney said that the song is about LSD, stating, " A song like ' Got to Get You Into My Life ,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time.

In his biography, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, McCartney recalled: " So first of all I checked this melody out, and people said to me, ' No, it's lovely, and I'm sure it's all yours.

McCartney said the breakthrough with the lyrics came during a trip to Portugal in May 1965:

Concert organizers have subsequently said that they were particularly keen to ensure that at least one surviving member of The Beatles, ideally Paul McCartney, took part in the concert as they felt that having an ' elder statesman ' from British music would give it greater legitimacy in the eyes of the political leaders whose opinions the performers were trying to shape.

McCartney agreed to perform and has said that it was " the management " – his children – that persuaded him to take part.

" We'd been very good friends for millions of years and I thought it was a bit much for them suddenly to be personae non gratae and out of my life ," McCartney said.

McCartney said, " I started with the idea ' Hey Jules ,' which was Julian, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

" McCartney thus left the line in, and later said "... when I play that song, that's the line when I think of John, and sometimes I get a little emotional during that moment.

In 1994, McCartney said, " Ringo walked out to go to the toilet and I hadn't noticed.

In a 1994 interview, McCartney said, " We were joking when we made the Anthology: I was saying: ' I realise I was a bossy git.

He said McCartney was " oblivious to anyone else's feelings in the studio ," and that he was driven to make the best possible record, at almost any cost.

After twelve takes, McCartney said, " I think that's enough " and filming concluded.

Richard Morgan, representing Christie's, said McCartney had provided no evidence that he had ever owned the piece of paper on which the lyrics were written.

When McCulloch phoned Paul McCartney, who had found him increasingly difficult to work with, to announce he was joining Marriott, McCartney reportedly said " I was a little put out at first, but, well, what can you say to that?