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Paul McCartney

By FamousBios Staff   2024-09-27 00:00:00
A career

From 1957 to 1960, the Quarrymen

At the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton on July 6, 1957, at the age of fifteen, Paul McCartney first saw John Lennon and the Quarrymen. The Quarrymen's musical style encompassed rock & roll as well as skiffle, a popular music form that blends jazz, blues, and folk. John Lennon and Paul McCartney became fast friends and colleagues in the band, and the rest of the group invited McCartney to join as rhythm guitarist very soon after that. John Lennon's art school pal Stuart Sutcliffe became the band's bassist in 1960, while Harrison took over as lead guitarist in 1958. Johnny and the Moondogs, Beatals, and the Silver Beetles were just a few of the names the band had tried by May 1960. They hired drummer Pete Best just before their August 1960 decision to become the Beatles and their five-show stint in Hamburg.

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From 1960 until 1970, the Fab Four

With Sutcliffe's departure from the band in 1961, McCartney reluctantly assumed the role of bass player for the Beatles. On the song 'My Bonnie,' English vocalist Tony Sheridan used the Beat Brothers as their backing band. The brothers had their first professional recording session in Hamburg. Brian Epstein, who played a key role in their growth and success, was drawn to them as a result of these occurrences. The title of manager was bestowed upon him in January 1962. The band's debut single, 'Love Me Do,' was issued in October following Best's August replacement by Ringo Starr. Following this, the band's fame skyrocketed in 1963 in the UK and 1964 in the US. Fans' elation became known as 'Beatlemania,' and the media sometimes called McCartney the 'lovely Beatle.' McCartney co-wrote several of the band's early singles with other members, including 'I Saw Her Standing There,' 'She Loves You,' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' and 'Can't Buy Me Love.'

The Beatles recorded McCartney's song 'Yesterda'y with a string quartet and released it in August 1965. You are part of the Support team! Not only had just one band member contributed to the recording, but it was also the first time the band had produced a song with classical music components. Over the years, 'Yesterda'y would amass more cover versions than any other song in popular music history. When the band was recording Rubber Soul in the fall of that year, McCartney started to displace John Lennon as the band's principal musician. According to musicologist Ian MacDonald, 'from...' His career as a composer, instrumentalist, arranger, producer, and 'de facto musical director' of the Beatles was booming at the time. Rubber Soul was a huge step forward in the band's lyrical and musical sophistication, according to critics. With John Lennon and Paul McCartney claiming credit as songwriters, the song 'In My Life' stands as a highlight of the Beatles' catalog. In response to a question regarding the album, McCartney said, 'we'd had our adorable moment, and now it was time to grow.' Rubber Soul producer Norman Smith said that the band's growing discontent was evident during recording, saying, 'the collision between John and Paul was becoming clear...' Paul, who was exceedingly critical, thought George could never do anything correctly.

When the Beatles released their 1966 album 'Revolver,' it was groundbreaking. The album was a watershed moment in the band's evolution as artists; it showcased sophisticated songwriting, experimental studio work, and a more diverse musical palette that spanned from psychedelic rock to imaginative string arrangements. Released before the album itself, 'Paperback Writer' was the first of Paul McCartney's three straight A-sides. The Beatles made two music videos in 1966: one for the main track and another for the flip side, 'Rain.' Harrison called the videos 'the predecessor of videos,' and they aired in June on Top of the Pops and The Ed Sullivan Show. Furthermore, Revolver featured the song 'Eleanor Rigb'y by Paul McCartney. A string octet was part of this composition. 'A neoclassical tour of force...' is how Gould characterized the song. an authentic hybrid that defies categorization as a musical style or genre. With the exception of a few support vocalists, the song only featured McCartney's lead voice. The strings were arranged by producer George Martin.

In 1966, the band had their final commercial performance at the end of their US tour. At the year's end, McCartney had completed his debut solo album. It was written specifically for the British film The Family Way. Both Martin and McCartney contributed to the song; the latter used two of the former's motifs to spark thirteen distinct iterations. Despite the soundtrack's lack of commercial success, McCartney was honored with the Ivor Novello Award for Best Instrumental Theme.

After the Fab Four's performing days ended, Paul McCartney worried about the band's future and hoped they would keep making music. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, generally regarded as the first concept album in rock music history, was born out of his insistence that they start a new project. As a means of experimenting and as a means of showing their audience that they had grown as musicians over the years, McCartney was inspired to create a new persona for the band. He wrote the song's lyrics and created the fictional band that performed them. The fucking four little mop-top approach was something that we simply despised, as Paul McCartney put it in his explanation. We weren't a bunch of lads; we were men. in addition to viewing ourselves as artists instead of just performers.

The band took a more experimental approach during the album's recording sessions, which started in November 1966. A forty-piece orchestra was required to record 'A Day in the Life,' and McCartney and Martin alternated as the symphony's conductors. The recordings took place in February 1967 and yielded the singles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Penny Lane,' which were released as a double A-side in June of the same year. Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, two pop musicians, collaborated on the album's cover collage. The Fab Four stood with other celebrities in the collage, all costumed like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band members. One of McCartney's ink paintings served as inspiration for the collage. A tizzy went through analysis when the cover was released.

In 1966, the band had their final commercial performance at the end of their US tour. By year's end, McCartney had completed his debut musical. After Epstein passed away in August 1967, the Beatles were confused and worried about what the future held. After John Lennon had left the Beatles, he took over as manager and de facto leader. In that role, McCartney stepped in and eventually took over as band leader. The band should continue with its plans to make a television movie, Magical Mystery Tour, which was his first innovative suggestion after the change in leadership. For his first creative proposal, McCartney offered this. Historian Mark Lewisohn, who focuses on the Fab Four, claims that the production was 'an administrative nightmare throughout.' With McCartney mostly in charge of directing the film, the band faced their first wave of critical acclaim. More importantly, though, the film's score was a commercial triumph. It was released in two versions: one as a six-track double extended play CD in the UK and one as a long play with the same title in the US. Both versions featured five songs from the band's most recent singles. Within three weeks of its release, the Magical Mystery Tour LP achieved sales of $8 million. It was the sole Capitol compilation that would later be included in the group's official canon of studio albums. As far as Capitol LPs go, this one had the best opening sales of all time.

Produced by the Fab Four, the 1966 Paul McCartney song 'Yellow Submarine' served as the basis for the animated film Yellow Submarine, which debuted in July of 1968. Although the film was lauded for its visual flair, comedy, and score, critics were less thrilled about the soundtrack album that came out six months after the film's debut. When 1968 came to a close, the band's internal dynamics started to disintegrate. As they worked on their self-titled double album—also known as the 'White Album'—tensions rose, and the following year, during the Let It Be sessions, a camera crew captured McCartney yelling at the band, further exacerbating the problem. We've been rather pessimistic since Mr. Epstein went away,' McCartney reportedly said. Our reluctance to follow rules has always been subtle, but it becomes ridiculous when it's our own.

Linda Eastman was McCartney's first wife, and the wedding took place in March of 1969. Mary, his first child, was born in August of that year; he had named her after his late mother. Prior to the publication of Abbey Road, Martin suggested that the band compose 'a perpetually moving piece of music' and urged the members to think symphonically. It was McCartney who agreed, not John Lennon. After much back-and-forth, they settled on McCartney's plan to record an album with individual tracks on one side and a long medley on the other. The theory that a doppelganger had replaced Paul McCartney after his death in a car crash in 1966 first surfaced in October 1969. But November's cover of Life magazine with McCartney and his family with the words 'Paul is still with us' quickly put an end to that rumor.

Paul McCartney was embroiled in many heated disagreements with his bandmates over business issues, the majority of which revolved on Allen Klein's management of the Beatles, when he announced his departure from the band on April 10, 1970. The official dissolution of the band was initiated by his lawsuit on December 31, 1970. The court appointed a receiver to manage the financial matters of Apple Corps, the business owned by the Beatles, in March 1971. Although the Beatles' partnership was formally dissolved on January 9, 1975, by an English court, the band persisted in suing each other, Klein, and EMI, their record company, on occasion until 1989.

During the years 1970–1981, Wings

Paul McCartney went through a depressive episode between 1969 and 1970, when the Beatles were breaking up. Important to his rehabilitation from that illness was the encouragement he received from his wife, who lauded his songwriting and encouraged him to continue recording and creating. He wrote 'Maybe I'm amazed' in her honor, in which he expressed his feelings when the Beatles broke up: 'That was my feeling: Maybe I'm astounded by what's going on...'... If I'm a guy, and if you're the one woman who could ever help me, then I beg you, baby, to explain it all to me. Following his previous statement, he continued by saying, 'Every love song I make is for Linda.' He had expressed his astonishment at how you pulled him out of time and left him hanging, as well as his true yearning for you.

McCartney's 1970 self-titled first solo album marked the beginning of his musical career after a hiatus. The United States charted this song at number one. All of the music, lyrics, and instrumentation on McCartney came from McCartney himself. Except for Linda's vocal contributions, McCartney is the only artist on the album. His 1971 follow-up album, Ram, featured Linda and Denny Seiwell. He produced the record. Included on Ram was the smash hit track 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halse,' which was co-written by the artist. The album peaked at number one in the US and was also a top five hit in the UK. Subsequently that year, Denny Laine—formerly of the Moody Blues—formed Wings with Paul McCartney and Billy Seiwell. 'Wings were always a problematic concept... ' McCartney said in regard to the formation of the band. Following success would be an arduous endeavor for any company... Yes, I was in just that predicament. 'I loved music too much to ever consider the notion of stopping,' McCartney said of the decision to continue or abandon their career. The McCartneys had their daughter Stella in September 1971. Since Linda's maternal grandparents were both named Stella, that is the name she was given.

A first performance at the University of Nottingham in 1972, which drew 700 people, marked the beginning of Wings' first concert tour. Since guitarist Henry McCullough was acquired, Wings had not played since. As part of an unexpected college tour around the UK, they played ten additional shows in a van. The band members endured substandard lodgings and were paid with monies collected from the pupils throughout the journey. Furthermore, they refrained from performing Beatles songs. 'The most important thing I did not want was to appear on stage, facing the full misery of five rows of press people with small pads, all gazing at me and saying, 'Oh well, he is not as good as he was.' So, we decided to go out on that university tour, which helped me feel less anxious,' McCartney admitted later. After that tour ended, I was eager for something new, so we headed to Europe for seven weeks of the Wings Over Europe Tour, where the band performed nearly just Wings and McCartney solo songs over the course of twenty-five concerts. The Beatles had only ever recorded one song before, a version of Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sall'y.' McCartney advised that the tour avoid large arenas because most of the smaller venues they played in could only hold around three thousand people.

In March 1973, Wings achieved their first number-one single in the US with the release of 'My Love.' The song was part of their second studio album, Red Rose Speedway, which peaked at number one in the US and reached the top five in the UK. Paul McCartney, Linda, and Martin—who had been a producer for the Beatles—collaborated on the song 'Live and Let Die,' which served as the theme music for the eponymous James Bond film. After receiving nine British charting singles, the Oscar-nominated song reached number two in the US. Also, the Grammy for Martin's orchestral arrangement of the song was well-deserved. The piece was characterized by music scholar and writer Vincent Benitez as 'symphonic rock at its finest.'

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After McCullough and Seiwell left the song's creation, the McCartneys and Laine recorded Band on the Run in 1973. Wings went on to have seven albums certified platinum, with this one being their first. In addition to being the first time the band had ever topped the charts in both the US and UK, it was also the first time the band had ever made it onto the Billboard magazine charts three times in a row. This was one of the most successful albums of the 2000s, spending 124 weeks at the top of the UK singles chart. When it came out in 1973, Rolling Stone named it one of the year's best albums. 'Band on the Run,' a song by Paul McCartney and Wings, won the 1975 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance. The album's Best Engineered Recording went to Geoff Emerick. With the release of their self-titled single in 1974, Wings achieved a second US number one. With the top-ten singles 'Jet' and 'Helen Wheels' included, the album also peaked at 418 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums list. In 1974, when Seiwell and McCullough were no longer available, McCartney hired guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton to fill in for them. In 1975, while the band was still recording, Britton departed, and Joe English was brought in to replace him.

After the success of Band on the Run, Wings released two more critically acclaimed albums that reached the top of the charts: Venus and Mars and Wings at the Speed of Sound. Their fourteen-month Wings Over the World Tour began in 1975 and took them all over the globe, including Europe, Australia, the UK, and the US. During the tour, Paul McCartney and Wings played a two-hour set list that comprised five songs: I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday, Blackbird, Lady Madonna, and The Long and Winding Road. Live performances of Beatles songs by McCartney and Wings were a first. The band's second European leg of the tour was followed by intense rehearsals in London. Then they set off on a daring stadium tour of the US, which led to the creation of the US number one live triple LP, Wings over America.

In September of 1977, the McCartneys became parents for the third time to a son they named James. In November, Wings's 'Mull of Kintyre,' a song they wrote with Laine, was quickly becoming one of the most-copied songs in UK chart history. It was McCartney's most commercially successful solo single to date, selling 2.5 million copies and shattering the previous record holder, 'She Loves You.' The record was held by the charity song 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'the year 1984 saw its release.

Between the years 1982 and 1990

The 1982 single 'Ebony and Ivor'y by McCartney and Stevie Wonder was a major hit, and it was produced by George Martin and featured on McCartney's album Tug of War. One other track that McCartney contributed to with Michael Jackson is 'The Girl Is Mine,' which can be found on the Thriller album. At the time of its release, 'Ebony and Ivor'y became Paul McCartney's 28th single to top the Billboard 100. He then worked with Jackson on 'Say Say Say,' which peaked at number one in the US in 2014 and was McCartney's most recent top single. Most recently, McCartney achieved number one status in the UK with the single 'Pipes of Peace,' which was the title track of his 2014 album.

In addition to writing and producing the musical Give My Regards to Broad Street, McCartney also appeared in it. There was a feature film in which Starr was also an actor. The 1984 film included McCartney's appearance. Reviews were mixed. Variety called it 'characterless, bloodless, and useless.' Roger Ebert gave it one star and said, 'you may safely skip the movie and continue right to the music.' The album had a number one hit in the US with 'No More Lonely Nights,' a song that featured lead guitar from David Gilmour. The album was likewise a smashing success in the UK, where it peaked at number one. In 1985, McCartney contributed a song to the comedic feature film Spies Like Us. Warner Brothers paid for the song's creation. He and Phil Ramone worked together as co-producers for four days to write and record the song. Paul McCartney sang 'Let it Be' during his Live Aid set. Unfortunately, he had technical difficulties that made his voice and piano almost inaudible for the first two verses of the song, and then feedback squeals started. In a move that delighted the crowd, Paul McCartney was joined onstage by David Bowie, Alison Moyet, Pete Townshend, and Bob Geldof once the technical difficulties had been resolved.

With Stewart penning almost half of the tracks on Press to Play, McCartney and Stewart worked together on the album. In 1988, McCartney's??? came out to the public. Which one is it?It was recorded over the course of two days in a row and originally only accessible in the USSR; it had eighteen separate covers. To benefit the Hillsborough tragedy appeal fund, he recorded a modernized rendition of 'Ferry Cross the Merse' in 1989 with fellow Merseysiders Gerry Marsden and Holly Johnson. To benefit the Hillsborough tragedy fund, the song was recorded. Gilmour and Nicky Hopkins contributed to the album Flowers in the Dirt, which he co-wrote with Elvis Costello. The same year saw its release. Subsequently, McCartney formed a band consisting of Linda and himself. The group's success was due in large part to the contributions of guitarists Robbie McIntosh and Hamish Stuart, keyboardist Paul 'Wix' Wickens, and drummer Chris Whitten. In September 1989, Paul McCartney embarked on his first tour in almost a decade, the Paul McCartney World Tour. The largest paying stadium audience in global history, numbering 184,000 individuals, witnessed McCartney's performance at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 21, 1990. The performance tour was when this incident occurred. Around the same time, he released Tripping the Live Fantastic, a triple CD that included live performances from the tour.

From 1991 to 1999

In 1991, in observance of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society's sesquicentennial, the society commissioned a musical composition by McCartney. The arena of symphonic music was McCartney's initial venture into it. Together with composer Carl Davis, he was an integral part of the cast of Liverpool Oratorio. Many opera singers, including Kiri Te Kanawa, Sally Burgess, Jerry Hadley, and Willard White, took part in the performance. The Liverpool Cathedral Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra were among the other artists. We got some bad feedback. According to The Guardian, the music is 'afraid of anything approaching a high tempo.' They also noted that the piece lacks 'little sense of the necessity for recurrent themes that would bind the work into a whole.' The composition received more criticism from The Guardian. Then McCartney responded by penning an open letter to the editor, which ran in the paper. 'Fortunately, history demonstrates that many wonderful pieces of music were not adored by the critics of the time therefore I am satisfied to...' he said in the letter, after mentioning the work's faster tempos. 'There are moments of beauty and delight in this dramatic miscellany...,' the New York Times said, in a rather more indulgent tone. 'Permit readers to judge the piece's merits on their own. The music's earnestness toward its innocent nature makes its goals unnerving. The Liverpool Oratorio, which had its world debut in London, eventually became the most performed classical work in the UK, topping the charts at Music Week.

In 1991, McCartney released a CD called Unplugged that included the performance live. The CD featured McCartney's acoustic renditions of some songs that had previously only been accessible on MTV Unplugged. It was in the '90s that McCartney and Youth of Killing Joke established the musical duet 'the Fireman' for second time. The two musicians' first joint effort, 1993's Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest, was an electronica record. In 1993, McCartney released Off the Ground, a rock album. Afterwards, that year saw the Paul Is Live CD released, which was the end result of the New World Tour.

Starting in 1994, McCartney took a four-year break from his solo career. Around this period, he worked with Harrison, Starr, and Martin on Apple's Beatles Anthology project. He recorded the Oobu Joobu radio series for the American network Westwood One from 1995 to 1996. The series was called 'widescreen radio' by him. In 1995, he was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Music by Prince Charles. 'For somebody who doesn't read a note of music,' McCartney said, describing the situation as 'kind of astounding.'

In 1997, McCartney released a rock album called Flaming Pie. 'Beautiful Night,' to which Starr contributed both drums and backing vocals, and Standing Stone, a classical work he released later that year, topped the charts in the US and the UK. The year 1998 saw the release of Rushes, the Fireman's second album of electronica. The year 1999 marked the release of McCartney's album Run Devil Run. It was recorded in a single week and consisted mainly of cover songs with three original compositions by Paul McCartney. The CD included the music of Ian Paice and David Gilmour. He had been working on the record for years before to Linda's death from cancer in April 1998, when she had urged him to do so. In April of 1998, Linda had gone away.

Paul McCartney performed an unannounced set at the 'Concert for Linda' benefit concert, which was staged in memory of Linda, his wife of 29 years, who had died a year before. The event, which was held in London's Royal Albert Hall on April 10, 1999, was organized by two of her closest friends, Chrissie Hynde and Carla Lane. Also, all through 1999, he kept exploring symphonic music on Working Classical.

From 2000 until 2009

After becoming interested in musique concrète and sound collage in the mid-1960s, he employed these techniques to produce the electronica album Liverpool Sound Collage, which came out in 2000. Youth to perform and Super Furry Animals were both included on the album. He contributed the song 'Nova' to the memorial CD A Garland for Linda, which featured classical and choral music. In memory of his late wife, he recorded this album.

Paul McCartney was inspired to organize the Concert for New York City after witnessing the September 11 attacks from the tarmac of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Composed in response to the measures implemented against him, the song 'Freedom' was included on his November 2016 studio album, Driving Rain. Featuring guitars Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray, keyboardist Paul 'Wix' Wickens, and drummer Abe Laboriel Jr., Paul McCartney set out on a tour at the start of the next year. They hit the road in April 2002 for what would turn out to be the Driving World Tour, which stopped in Japan, Mexico, and the USA. While on tour, the band recorded two live albums: Back in the US and Back in the World. Approximately $126.2 million was reportedly earned during the tour, with each night's performance bringing in over $2 million. The greatest tour of the year, according to Billboard, was also it. Live performances by McCartney alongside artists such as Brian Ray, Rusty Anderson, Abe Laboriel Jr., and Wix Wickens outnumber those by the Beatles by a significant margin. The group keeps playing as a whole.

In July of 2002, McCartney tied the knot with Heather Mills. On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of George Harrison's demise, McCartney performed at the November Concert for George. He was the featured performer during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005 and sang 'Freedom' during the pregame performance of Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002. He took part in the National Football League's championship game, known as the Super Bowl. In 2002, as a symbol of their thanks, the English College of Arms awarded McCartney with a coat of arms. In honor of his musical career and Liverpool roots, his crest features an acoustic guitar held aloft by a Liver bird. On top of it, the shield has four curved symbols that resemble beetle backs. Ecce Cor Meum, which means 'Behold My Heart' in Latin, is the motto that appears on the arms. The McCartneys welcomed their daughter Beatrice Milly into the world in 2003.

From 2010 till the current day

After finding the previous Civic Arena unsuitable for his logistical needs, McCartney opened the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2010. It had been since 1990 since McCartney had played in Pittsburgh, thus this was a really special occasion. Two of McCartney's July 2011 concerts at the then-new Yankee Stadium were sold out affairs. The New York Times reviewed Paul McCartney's first concert and reported that he was 'not saying farewell but touring stadiums and staging marathon concerts.' In September 2011, McCartney released his first dance soundtrack in response to a commission from the New York City Ballet. The score, named Ocean's Kingdom, was a joint effort with composer Peter Martins. Furthermore, McCartney wed Nancy Shevell in 2011. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honored him with the MusiCares Person of the Year award in February 2012, the same month that his classics collection Kisses on the Bottom was published. Two days before to his performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, he received this honor.

One of the world's most beloved entertainers, McCartney remains. Two of his May shows in Mexico City brought in almost $6 million apiece. On both occasions, he played before crowds of over 100,000 people. 'Let It Be' and 'Live and Let Die' were performed by Paul McCartney at the Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Concert in June 2012 outside Buckingham Palace.' On July 27th, 2012, at the closing ceremony of the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in London, he sang 'The End' and 'Hey Jude,' inviting the audience to join him on the coda. In recognition of his time contribution, the Olympic Games organizers gave him one pound.

On December 12, 2012, at the last performance of 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, McCartney performed with three ex-Nirvana members. Nearly two billion individuals from every corner of the globe turned out to see the performance. Released in October of that year, McCartney's New was the title single from an upcoming studio album that he unveiled on August 28th, 2013. A primetime entertainment special was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater on January 27, 2014, and it was televised on CBS on February 9, 2014. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were among the singers who helped pay tribute to the Beatles and their legendary 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan show. The event, titled The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles, featured 22 of the band's most famous songs. Featured musicians who performed these songs included McCartney and Starr.

Paul McCartney rescheduled a tour of the US to start in October of the same year after catching a sickness in May. He then withdrew from a fully sold-out tour of Japan. He resumed the tour with a three-hour mesmerizing performance in Albany, New York on July 5, 2014. On August 14, 2014, McCartney performed at Candlestick Park's final concert before the park was torn down in San Francisco, California. It was the same arena where the Beatles played their last concert in 1966. 'Hope for the Future,' composed and performed by Paul McCartney in 2014, was the last theme song for the computer game Destiny. In November 2014, a tribute CD called The Art of McCartney was released. It had 42 songs dedicated to Paul McCartney.

The CD features McCartney's solo and Beatles work with that of a wide range of other performers. 'Only One,' a collaboration between McCartney and American rapper Kanye West, was released on December 31st of that year. Co-written by McCartney, West, and Barbadian singer Rihanna, the 2015 single 'FourFiveSeconds' debuted in January. After releasing the single's music video in January, they performed the song live at the 57th Annual Grammy Performance Awards on February 8, 2015. The album 'All Da'y was released by West in 2015 and featured guest appearances by Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom. The track had McCartney as a featured artist.