At age 25, Beatles founding member Paul McCartney envisioned a quiet retirement When I was Sixty Four. But still busy, the British pop legend is celebrating his 80th birthday on June 18, a week before performing at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts.
He will be the oldest headliner in the history of this legendary festival, which attracts thousands of people to the south-west of England. The crowds in Glastonbury always remind me of a medieval battle scenehe posted on Twitter in late March.
This moment will take place about ten days after the completion of his tour called May Balik Tour where the new octogenarian filled stadiums in the United States for a month and a half.
Not yet leaving the stage, the famous Beatles, who have been alone for over 50 years, still need to rest during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A prosperous period of pandemic
He then retired as a family on his farm in south-east England with his daughter Mary and four of his eight grandchildren.
But we don’t do each other again. The insatiable artist took the opportunity to record the album at home McCartney IIIreleased in December 2020 and charted at number one in Britain.
The following year, he recorded a new version of this album, along with a host of supporting artists. Not only that, he published a book that goes back to his career, The Lyrics, a vegan cookbook with children Mary and Stella and a children’s story. At this time, McCartney 3,2,1a series of interviews with producer Rick Rubin as well as Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Come back was released at Disney+.
As he celebrates his eighth decade, Paul McCartney has a busier schedule than ever.
Despite the years and dramas that have fallen into his life, he has maintained the slender figure and mischievous stare of the Beatles years.
The crazy era of the Beatles
James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool in 1942, into a small family. His mother, a midwife, died when he was 14.
The following year he met John Lennon and played with him in the Quarrymen, which later became the Beatles, with the arrival of George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The four boys with iconic haircuts aroused fan hysteria. The Beatlemania sweep the world.
Together with John Lennon, McCartney composed emblematic songs: Hey Jude, Penny LaneAnd of course Yesterdaya great success recorded in 1600 different versions.
After the Beatles
But the childhood friendship was broken. The filming of Let that bearound the eponymous album, the sound of death knell for FabFour on April 10, 1970, greatly disappointed by their fans.
McCartney creates the band Wings with his wife, photographer Linda Eastman, on keyboards. With him, the former LSD lover became a family man and a vegetarian. The couple is raising four children, Mary, Stella, who became fashion designers, James and Heather, who were born from a previous marriage to Linda.
After 29 years of marriage, Linda died in 1998, of breast cancer. Heartbroken, McCartney devoted himself to good causes: the environment, animals, human rights. He tries his hand at classical music, painting and sculpture.
He met Heather Mills, a former model who lost part of her leg after an accident, and married her in 2002. They had a daughter, Beatrice, before divorcing violently in 2008.
In October 2011, Paul McCartney married American Nancy Shevell, heiress of a wealthy American businessman. The Sunday timeS estimates the couple’s wealth at £ 865 million (C $ 1.3 billion).
In his successful career, Paul McCartney has received numerous awards, including 18 Grammy awards, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.
There is a rumor that it could be done soon lordin a new mark of recognition of the cultural imprint left by this prolific singer-songwriter.
Of the four Beatles members, only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr survive. At age 81, Ringo Starr also continues to tour. Georges Harrison died of cancer in 2001 and John Lennon was murdered in 1980 in New York by Mark David Chapman.
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Source: Radio-Canada
