Sir Paul McCartney is a key figure in contemporary culture as a singer, composer, poet, writer, artist, humanitarian, entrepreneur, and holder of more than 3 thousand copyrights. He is in the "Guinness Book of World Records" for most records sold, most #1s (shared), most covered song, "Yesterday," largest paid audience for a solo concert (350,000+ people...See full bio »
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Martin Short/Paul McCartney
(2012)
(writer: "My Valentine", "Wonderful Christmastime", "Cut Me Some Slack" / performer: "My Valentine", "Cut Me Some Slack", "Wonderful Christmastime", "Holiday Time, Holiday Cheer")
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Paul Rudd/Paul McCartney
(2010)
(writer: "Jet" - uncredited, "Band on the Run" - uncredited, "A Day in the Life" / "Give Peace a Chance" - uncredited, "Get Back" - uncredited / performer: "Take My Breath Away" - uncredited, "Jet" - uncredited, "Band on the Run" - uncredited, "A Day in the Life" / "Give Peace a Chance" - uncredited, "Get Back" - uncredited)
2012Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
(writer: "Blackbird", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", "Get Back", "All You Need is Love")
2012/IFlight
(writer: "With a Little Help From My Friends")
2009The Beatles: Rock Band
(Video Game)
(lyrics: "A Day in the Life", "A Hard Day's Night", "Abbey Road Medley", "All You Need is Love", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Because", "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite", "Birthday", "Boys", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Come Together", "Day Tripper", "Dear Prudence", "Dig A Pony", "Do You Want To Know A Secret", "Don't Let Me Down", "Drive My Car", "Eight Days A Week", "Fixing A Hole", "Get Back", "Getting Better", "Girl", "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End", "Good Morning Good Morning", "Hello Goodbye", "Helter Skelter", "Her Majesty", "Here Comes the Sun", "Hey Bulldog", "I Am The Walrus", "I Feel Fine", "I Me Mine", "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "I'm Looking Through You", "I've Got A Feeling", "If I Needed Someone", "In My Life", "Lovely Rita", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Michelle", "Norwegian Wood This Bird Has Flown", "Nowhere Man", "Octopus's Garden", "Oh Darling", "Paperback Writer", "Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Revolution", "Run For Your Life", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends", "She's Leaving Home", "Something", "Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard", "Taxman", "The End", "The Word", "Think For Yourself", "Ticket To Ride", "Twist and Shout", "Wait", "What Goes On", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Within You Without You", "Within You Without You/Tommorrow Never Knows", "Yellow Submarine", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "You Won't See Me")
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Episode #1.3
(2008)
(music: "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited / lyrics: "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.2
(2008)
(music: "A Hard Day's Night" - uncredited, "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited / lyrics: "A Hard Day's Night" - uncredited, "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited)
2007Across the Universe
(writer: "Girl", "Helter Skelter", "Hold Me Tight", "All My Loving", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "It Won't Be Long", "I've Just Seen A Face", "Let It Be", "Come Together", "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?", "If I Fell", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Dear Prudence", "Flying", "I Am The Walrus", "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite", "Because", "Oh! Darling", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Revolution", "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "Don't Let Me Down", "All You Need Is Love", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "A Day In The Life", "Across The Universe", "She Loves You", "And I Love Her")
2003Love Actually
("All You Need Is Love" 1967 / as McCartney)
2003/IThe In-Laws
(writer: "Live and Let Die", "I'm Carrying", "A Love for You" / performer: "Live and Let Die", "I'm Carrying", "A Love for You" / producer: "Live and Let Die", "A Love for You")
2002Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace
(TV documentary)
(writer: "The Long And Winding Road", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Her Majesty", "Blackbird", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band reprise", "The End", "All You Need Is Love", "Hey Jude" / performer: "Her Majesty", "Blackbird", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band reprise", "The End", "All You Need Is Love", "Hey Jude")
2001I Am Sam
(writer: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Two of Us", "Across the Universe", "I'm Looking through You", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Golden Slumbers", "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away", "Blackbird", "Mother Nature's Son")
2000Paul Is Dead
(writer: "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Wonderful Christmastime", "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", "I Am The Walrus" / performer: "Wonderful Christmastime")
1995You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
(video documentary)
(writer: "You Can't Do That" 1964 - uncredited, If I Fell" 1964 - uncredited, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1964 - uncredited, "And I Love Her" 1964 - uncredited, "Can't Buy Me Love" 1964 - uncredited)
1993You Know My Name
(short)
(writer: "You Know My Name Look Up The Number")
1993Loaded Weapon 1
(music: "WE CAN WORK IT OUT" / lyrics: "WE CAN WORK IT OUT")
1992Secrets
(writer: "LOVE ME DO", "I SAW HER STANDING THERE", "Do You Want to Know a Secret", "It Won't Be Long", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Helter Skelter", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "Can't Buy Me Love", "All My Loving", "She Loves You", "Revolution", "I Feel Fine", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "Dear Prudence", "Eight Days a Week", "She's Leaving Home", "Hold Me Tight", "With a Little Help from My Friends", "This Boy", "A Hard Day's Night")
1991The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
(video documentary)
(writer: "All My Lovin", "From Me To You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "It Won't Be Long", "Love Me Do", "Please, Please Me", "She Loves You", "This Boy")
1990Jul med Paul McCartney
(TV special documentary)
(writer: "The Long And Winding Road", "Let It Be" / performer: "The Long And Winding Road", "Let It Be")
1990/IIPeacemaker
(short)
(writer: "Pipes of Peace" / performer: "Pipes of Peace")
1988Imagine: John Lennon
(documentary)
(writer: "A Day in the Life", "Across the Universe", "All You Need Is Love", "Ballad of John & Yoko", "Come Together", "Don't Let Me Down", "Give Peace a Chance", "Help", "In My Life", "I've Got a Feeling", "Julia", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Nowhere Man", "Revolution", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "From Me to You", "Love Me Do")
1987Concrete Angels
(writer: "She Loves You", "Love Me Do", "From Me To You", "Misery", "P.S. I Love You", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Saw Her Standing There")
1987Five Corners
(music: "In My Life" / lyrics: "In My Life")
1987Disorderlies
(writer: "Baby You're a Rich Man")
1985Twice in a Lifetime
(writer: "Twice In A Lifetime" / performer: "Twice In A Lifetime")
1985Live Aid
(TV special documentary)
("Let it Be")
1985Mask
(writer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Girl")
1985Rupert and the Frog Song
(short)
(music: "We All Stand Together", "We All Stand Together Humming Version" / lyrics: "We All Stand Together" / performer: "We All Stand Together")
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The Heart of Rock 'N' Roll
(1984)
(writer: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Help!", "Eleanor Rigby", "Come Together", "All You Need Is Love", "The End")
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Your Own Song
(1982)
(music: "Penny Lane" / lyrics: "Penny Lane")
1979Birth of the Beatles
(writer: "I Saw Her Standing There", "Love Me Do", "Ask Me Why", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Please Please Me", "She Loves You", "Please Mister Postman")
1979Sunburn
(writer: "With a Little Luck" / performer: "With a Little Luck")
1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(writer: "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole" / music: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Getting Better", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Reprise, "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Finale / lyrics: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Getting Better", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Reprise, "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Finale)
1978All You Need Is Cash
(TV movie)
(writer: "Hold My Hand", "I Must Be In Love", "With A Girl Like You", "O-U-C-H!", "Love Life", "Good Times Roll", "Doubleback Alley", "Another Day", "Cheese And Onions", "Piggy In The Middle", "Let's Be Natural", "Get Up And Go", "Between Us Made For Each Other", "Goose-Step Mama", "It's Looking Good" / arranger: "Number One")
1976All This and World War II
(documentary)
(writer: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", "I Am the Walrus", "She's Leaving Home", "Lovely Rita", "When I'm Sixty Four", "Get Back", "Let it Be", "Yesterday", "With a Little Help From My Friends / Nowhere Man", "Because", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "Michelle", "We Can Work it Out", "The Fool on the Hill", "Hey, Jude", "Polythene Pam", "Sun King", "Getting Better", "The Long And Winding Road", "Help", "A Day in the Life", "Come Together", "You Never Give Me Your Money")
1974Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
(documentary short)
(writer: "Cry Baby Cry", "Love Me Do", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "A Hard Day's Night", "She Loves You", "All My Loving", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", "Help!", "Her Majesty", "We Can Work It Out", "Eleonor Rigby", "Paperback Writer", "Yellow Submarine", "Penny Lane", "A Little Help From My Friends", "A Day in the Life", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Revolution", "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "Come Together")
1974One Hand Clapping
(writer: "Jet", "Soily", "Little Woman Love", "C Moon", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "My Love", "Bluebird", "Suicide", "Let's Love", "I'll Give You a Ring", "Band on the Run", "Live and Let Die", "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", "Baby Face")
1970Let It Be
(documentary)
(writer: "Two of Us", "Dig A Pony", "Across the Universe", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Dig It", "Let It Be", "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909", "Don't Let Me Down", "The Long and Winding Road", "Get Back")
1970Woodstock
(documentary)
(writer: "With A Little Help From My Friends")
1968Yellow Submarine
(writer: "Yellow Submarine", "Hey Bulldog", "Eleanor Rigby", "All Together Now", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Baby You're A Rich Man", "All You Need Is Love", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Nowhere Man", "A Day In the Life")
1967Magical Mystery Tour
(TV special)
(writer: "Magical Mystery Tour", "The Fool on the Hill", "Flying", "I Am the Walrus", "Your Mother Should Know", "She Loves You", "All My Loving")
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Episode #17.21
(1964)
(writer: "Please Please Me" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited / performer: "Twist and Shout" - uncredited, "Please Please Me" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited)
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Episode #17.20
(1964)
(writer: "She Loves You" - uncredited, "This Boy" - uncredited, "All My Loving" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "From Me to You" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / performer: "She Loves You" - uncredited, "This Boy" - uncredited, "All My Loving" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "From Me to You" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand")
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Episode #17.19
(1964)
(writer: "All My Loving" - uncredited, "She Loves You" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited / performer: "All My Loving" - uncredited, "Till There Was You" - uncredited, "She Loves You" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited)
1965Go Go Mania
(writer: "She Loves You", "A World Without Love")
1964A Hard Day's Night
(writer: "I Wanna Be Your Man" 1963 - uncredited, "All My Loving" 1963 - uncredited, "If I Fell" 1964 - uncredited, "Can't Buy Me Love" 1964 - uncredited, "And I Love Her" 1964 - uncredited, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1964 - uncredited, "She Loves You" 1963 - uncredited)
On his vetting every photo taken by his hired photographers: I just don't like to see terrible photos of myself...it's straightforward vanity. You tell me someone who wants to see terrible photos of themselves.
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Trivia:
In 1971, he produced (but did not perform on) "Thrillington", an instrumental version of the album "Ram" he recorded with his wife Linda. The songs were presented in orchestral versions, and Paul's work as producer and director was pseudonymously credited to "Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington". The album was not well received by the critics, but is now a much sought-after collectable.
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Frequently plays the Hofner bass guitar
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