" Eight Days a Week " is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future ; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement.

On 23 January, the group ( now in Apple Studios ) tried to record the song properly ; bootleg recordings preserve a conversation between McCartney and Harrison between takes discussing the song, and McCartney explaining the original " protest song " concept.

Alternative sources, however, state that McCartney and the other Beatles tried a variety of instruments, including drums and an organ, and that George Martin later persuaded them to allow McCartney to play his Epiphone Texan steel-string acoustic guitar, later on editing-in a string quartet for backup.

McCartney had been out of the country when " Revolution 9 " was assembled and mixed ; he was unimpressed when he first heard the finished track, and later tried to persuade Lennon to drop his insistence that it be included on the album.

In 1996 McCartney tried to release the track on the compilation album The Beatles Anthology 2, but George Harrison voted to reject it.

In a 1990 press conference Paul McCartney recalled meeting Sullivan again in the early 1970s.

Sullivan apparently had no idea who McCartney was.

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

McCartney also used the same quip, this time for an American audience, to introduce The Beatles ' performance of ' I Want to Hold Your Hand ' as the finale of their set for The Ed Sullivan Show at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida on 16 February 1964.

Thanks to Ronnie, Murray got into the hotel and did his radio show from their Plaza Hotel room their first night in New York ( there is a picture of " Ronnie " being interviewed by Murray the K, as Paul McCartney and George Harrison look on, in the hotel, though according to Ronnie's biography, Phil Spector did not allow her to go so they sent another cousin in her place ) and accompanied them to Washington, D. C. for their first U. S. concert, was backstage at their The Ed Sullivan Show premiere, and roomed with Beatles guitarist George Harrison in Miami, broadcasting his shows from there.

Bardot was idolized by young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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

In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

After he began his performing career there was occasionally unfounded media speculation that Julian would undertake performances with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

However, in the Beatles Anthology series in 1996, the three surviving Beatles confirmed that there was never an idea of having Julian sit in for his father as part of a Beatles reunion, with McCartney saying " why would we want to subject him to all of this?

Thus Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife was formally styled Lady McCartney ( rather than Lady Paul McCartney or Lady Heather McCartney ).

The style Dame Heather McCartney could be used for the wife of a knight ; however, this style is largely archaic and is only used in the most formal of documents, or where the wife is a Dame in her own right ( such as Dame Norma Major, who gained her title six years before her husband Sir John Major was knighted ).

* Paul Is Dead, a 1960s urban legend that Paul McCartney was dead

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.

However, Paul McCartney received the very first 4001S ( his was left-handed, and later modified to include a " zero fret ").

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.

" 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 ).

She is regarded as one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, being cited as a mentor to diverse artists such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Madonna, and Dusty Springfield.

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.

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.

", but Rowley found the lead vocals " strained " and considered it McCartney's " weakest Little Richard cover version " ( although McCartney only recorded one other Little Richard cover, " Long Tall Sally ", while with The Beatles ).

Sometimes McCartney would record in one studio for prolonged periods of time, while Lennon would record in another, each man using different engineers.

* 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.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

Most of his appearances on SNL have been on Weekend Update, including one where he reported that " The take at the shrines in Italy has gone down " which he suggested correcting by creating " Shrinemobiles " and thus taking the shrines to where the people were, and another where he is sent to London to try to wake up Paul McCartney at 4: 30 in the morning ( 11: 30 in New York ) by throwing coins, obnoxiously singing The Beatles and Wings songs, and finally, throwing a rock at the window ( he says it works every time ).

According to biographers of McCartney and the Beatles, McCartney composed the entire melody in a dream one night in his room at the Wimpole Street home of his then girlfriend Jane Asher and her family.

During the shooting of Help !, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song.

There are conflicting accounts of how the song was recorded, the most quoted one being that McCartney recorded the song by himself, without bothering to involve the other band members.

Take 2 had two lines transposed from the first take: “ There ’ s a shadow hanging over me ”/” I ’ m not half the man I used to be ”, though it seems clear that their order in take 2 was the correct one, because McCartney can be heard, in take 1, suppressing a laugh at his mistake.

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.

At the conclusion of the Wembley performances, Bob Geldof was raised heroically onto the shoulders of The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney – symbolising his great achievement in unifying the world for one day, in the spirit of music and charity.

In one of those instances, Paul McCartney had re-recorded his failed vocals for " Let It Be " in a studio the day after the concert ( 14 July 1985 ) but it was never used until the release of the DVD.

* 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.

The Beatles ' " For No One " ( 1966 ) features Paul McCartney playing the clavichord.

* Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles.

* 1942 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( The Beatles, The Quarrymen, and The Fireman )

* 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.

Ono appeared on-stage at Microsoft's June 1, 2009 E3 press conference with Olivia Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to promote The Beatles: Rock Band video game.

In 1976, McCartney released a live album called Wings Over America which credited the five Beatles tracks he included as P. McCartney – J.

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

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.

* July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.

** Paul McCartney, British musician and composer ( The Beatles )

* April 10 – Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his first solo album.

* December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles ' legal partnership.

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.

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.

Pete Best joined Lennon, McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe and Harrison on the eve of their Hamburg sojourn, the five using the monikers, " The Silver Beetles " and " The Silver Beatles " ( they would experiment with " The Beat Brothers " and ultimately " The Beatles " while in Hamburg with Best ).