Sullivan apparently had no idea who McCartney was.

After the Beatles 1965 summer tour, Paul McCartney frequently used a left-handed 1964 4001S FG Rickenbacker bass, as its tone was better suited to recording than the lightweight Höfner basses he had used previously.

He later argued that Aksai Chin was already under Chinese jurisdiction, implying that there was therefore no contradiction with his earlier statement, since China did not regard the region as " Indian controlled ", and that since the British hand-over, China had regarded the McCartney MacDonald Line as the relevant border.

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.

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.

The two other Beatles agreed that the credits should remain as they always had been and McCartney withdrew his request.

" Ono later issued a statement claiming she did not mean any offense, as her comment was an attempt to console her husband, not attack McCartney ; she went on to insist that she respected McCartney and that it was the press who had taken her comments out of context.

Similarly, although The Beatles ' productions were credited to George Martin throughout their recording career, many sources now attest that Lennon and McCartney in particular had an increasing influence on the production process as the group's career progressed, and especially after the band retired from touring in 1966.

The Fifth Beatle is an informal title that various commentators in the press and entertainment industry have applied to persons who were at one point a member of The Beatles, or who had a strong association with the " Fab Four " ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ) during the group's existence.

Years after The Beatles had broken up, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr each worked with music producer Jeff Lynne on various solo projects, while Harrison and Lynne also worked together as members of the Traveling Wilburys.

In 1961 The Beatles ( comprising Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Pete Best ), who had met Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, worked with him on their second.

At this stage in their collaboration, Lennon's and McCartney's songwriting was highly collaborative ; even when songs had a primary author the other would often contribute key parts, as with " No Reply " where McCartney provided a middle-eight for what was otherwise almost entirely a Lennon song.

The Beatles had to share the studio with classical musicians, as McCartney would relate in 1988: " These days you go to a recording studio and you tend to see other groups, other musicians ... you'd see classical sessions going on in ' number one.

" I'll Follow the Sun " was a reworking of an old song ; it had originally been written when McCartney was a youth, as he related in 1988:

The dark theme of the album was balanced by " Every Little Thing ", a " celebration of what a wonderful girl the guy has ", according to Unterberger, that appeared later in the album and had been written as an attempt for a single, according to McCartney:

" Both Lennon and Paul McCartney had quickly found themselves in songwriting mode, however, often meeting " clandestinely in the afternoons in each other's rooms " to review the new work.

The Beatles had left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Starr and then McCartney departing, and Lennon and Harrison departing together later.

According to Lewisohn, McCartney played drums on " Dear Prudence " because Starr had left the group while the song was being recorded.

In October 1969, a Detroit radio programme began to promote theories based on clues supposedly left on The Beatles and other Beatles albums that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by a lookalike.

The Beatles were fans of the Bonzos: they featured them in the 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour and Paul McCartney ( working with Gus Dudgeon under the alias Apollo C. Vermouth ) had produced their 1968 hit single " I'm the Urban Spaceman ".

* 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.

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

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.

This band played Williams ' compositions almost exclusively ( the Lennon – McCartney song " Blackbird ," the standard " Poinciana ," and the Freddie Hubbard blues " Birdlike " being the exceptions ) and toured and recorded throughout the remainder of the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

The record sleeve-note shows that Lennon and McCartney made more extensive and prominent use of keyboards, previously played unobtrusively by Martin.

Lewisohn also reports that, in the case of " Back in the U. S. S. R .", also recorded during Starr's absence, the three remaining Beatles each made contributions on bass and drums, with the result that those parts may be composite tracks played by Lennon, McCartney and / or Harrison.

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 ".

* Dirk McQuickly ( styled after Paul McCartney ) — played by Eric Idle

The performance was unusual for the show because McCartney had played the two standard songs that musical guests play, then had played a third song (" A Day in the Life ").

The introduction was played by McCartney on a Mellotron, and involves a I-ii-I-VII-IV progression The vocals enter with the refrain instead of a verse.

Lennon played an Epiphone Casino ; McCartney played a Mellotron, a new home instrument purchased by Lennon on August 12, 1965, ( with another model hired in after encouragement from Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues ); Starr played drums, and Harrison played electric guitar.

It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tamboura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Lennon, and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played by McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding " not unlike a celeste ".

Ono provided vocals and McCartney played bass, while Sean Lennon, Linda McCartney, and McCartney's children played various instruments.

He played for the audience a track of Paul McCartney brushing his teeth and Ringo Starr shaving before The Ed Sullivan Show.

Much as he did with " Yesterday ", McCartney played the song for other musicians and friends.

McCartney predominantly used the Rickenbacker bass during his time with Wings, until the late 1970s.

He has cited Paul McCartney, Geezer Butler, John Entwistle, and Gene Simmons as the fundamental influences of his bass playing.

Instead of replacing him with a new member, Paul McCartney changed from rhythm guitar ( with John Lennon ) to bass and the band continued as a four-piece.

* Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals ; lead and bass guitars ; piano ; Lowrey and Hammond organs ; handclaps, vocalizations, tape loops, sound effects and comb and tissue paper

* Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and backing vocals ; bass guitar and handclaps ; piano on " Little Child " and claves on " Don't Bother Me "

* Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals ; acoustic, lead, rhythm and bass guitars ; keyboards ( acoustic and electric pianos and Hammond organ ); assorted percussion ( timpani, tambourine, handclaps and vocal percussion ); drums ( on " Back in the U. S. S. R ." and " Dear Prudence "); recorder and flugelhorn ; sound effects

The pre-The Beatles band The Quarrymen performed the song during 1956 early live performances along with other Presley songs, Paul McCartney later also made another cover of the song in Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, performing it with Bill Black's bass.

The lineup for the released versions of " Get Back " was Paul McCartney, lead vocal and bass ; John Lennon, lead guitar and backing vocal ; George Harrison, rhythm guitar ; Ringo Starr, drums ; and Billy Preston, electric piano.

* Paul McCartney – lead vocal, bass

* Paul McCartney – bass, tambourine, backing vocal

* Paul McCartney – Mellotron, bass

* Paul McCartney – bass guitar, harmony vocal, Lowrey organ

* Paul McCartney: bass, lead guitar

The band at the time included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe on bass and Pete Best on drums.

Paul McCartney, like Dunn, played bass melodically, without straying from the rhythm or the groove.

After The Beatles disbanded, there were rumours of them reforming as The Ladders, with Voormann on bass as a replacement for Paul McCartney.

Songs from this period are also featured in a portion of the double album compilation Anthology, which includes a guest appearance on bass guitar, drums and backing vocals by Paul McCartney on the songs " Celebration " and " My Dark Hour.

One left-handed bass was built as a gift from Stanley to Paul McCartney.

Contemporaries such as James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, and Jack Casady adopted a more melodic, contrapuntal approach to the instrument ; before this, bass players in rock had generally played a conventional timekeeping role within the beat of the song, and within ( or underpinning ) the song's harmonic or chord structure.

* Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, acoustic guitar, bass, finger-snaps