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... Paul McCartney’s life and past experiences have had a great impact on his music over the years. McCartney’s relationship with the women in his life, his experiences with drugs, the demise of the Beatles as a group and the death of two of his band mates are life experiences that have caused him to become the musician he is today. Beginning as a teenager and continuing through today, McCartney has written numerous songs about his relationships with the women in his life. During the years when Paul McCartney and the rest of the Beatles were experimenting with drugs, his lyrics often reflected this drug use. The demise of the Beatles and the death of both John Lennon and George Harrison also resulted in the creation of songs by McCartney to reflect his feelings.
Paul McCartney, originally named James Paul McCartney, was born on June 18, 1942, in Liverpool, England. ... The Beatles, comprised of McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison, were “arguably the most influential rock and roll group of all time” (Paul McCartney).
Paul McCartney’s introduction to the music world occurred when his mother died in 1956. His father scrimped together fifteen pounds to buy him his first guitar and McCartney used it for comfort and escape. ... 21) In later years, Paul McCartney memorialized his mother with the song “Let It Be”, based on a dream he had of her ten years after her death. ... 20)
McCartney wrote many songs for the female fans of the Beatles, including “Thank You Girl”, written in 1963. ... In it, McCartney says “the idea is that material possessions are al well but they won’t buy me what I want”. ... com)
Paul McCartney’s first true love was a woman named Jane Asher. ... McCartney and Asher first met on April 18th, 1963 when she was asked to do a celebrity interview with the Beatles for Radio Times (Miles pg. ...
Jane Asher started acting at the age of five and by the time she was seventeen and met Paul McCartney, she was already a well know actress. For a while their careers complimented each other, but as their relationship progressed she placed her acting first, often, before the relationship with McCartney. McCartney felt that Asher should always be available to him whenever possible. ... McCartney said, “I wrote ‘Things We Said Today’ as a future nostalgia: we’ll remember the things we said today some time in the future”. ... 122)
Asher was most likely the inspiration for m any of Paul’s love songs. “All My Loving”, was written in 1962 by Paul as a direct result of and to his love interest at the time, Jane Asher. ... Probably the most famous one, “And I Love Her” was written shortly after McCartney moved in with Asher and her family in 1964 (Miles, p.
Approximate Word count = 2314
Approximate Pages = 9.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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