Paul McCartney is looking back on his incredible career.
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Paul McCartney says he has stopped signing autographs, calling the process “a bit strange”.Speaking to Reader’s Digest (via Contact Music), the Beatles legend discussed being stopped by fans and asking for autographs across his career, and why he has grown tired of the idea.“It always struck me as a bit strange,” he said.
“‘Here, can I write your name down on the back of this till receipt please?’ Why? We both know who I am.”McCartney also said he doesn’t particularly understand the idea of
.Paul McCartney is looking back on his incredible career.
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Paul McCartney has spoken of how he’s “only just got over” dealing with the “misconception” that he was the one who split up The Beatles.Speaking at an event on Friday night (November 5) to launch his new book The Lyrics at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, Sir Paul was posed an audience question by host and journalist Samira Ahmed about what biggest misconception was about “being Paul McCartney”.“I think the biggest misconception at the end of The Beatles was that I broke The Beatles up,
Paul McCartney has spoken about how he “never told John Lennon that he loved him”, but that he now finds it “great” to realise just how much his former Beatle bandmate meant to him.Speaking at an event on Friday night (November 5) to launch his new book The Lyrics at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, the poet Paul Muldoon noted that one thing that came across strongly in the new book was Macca’s “love” for his late friend.“It’s true.
songwriting partner John Lennon.The global celebrity revealed intimate details of his relationship with his late Beatles bandmate at the Southbank Centre in London Friday, where he was promoting a new book, The Sunday Times reported.“As 16-year-old, 17-year-old Liverpool kids, you could never say that. It just wasn’t done,” McCartney said.
Sir Paul McCartney hates the misconception that he broke up The Beatles. The 79-year-old musician says he has "only finally just got over" claims that he split up the band - which also featured John Lennon, Sir Ringo Starr and George Harrison - in 1969.
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Paul McCartney‘s forthcoming career-spanning biography, The Lyrics has been shortlisted for this year’s Waterstones Book Of The Year award.The book, which was announced earlier this year and is due for release on November 2, will recount the musician’s life through his earliest boyhood compositions, songs by The Beatles, Wings and from his lengthy solo career.It will also be presented with previously unseen drafts, letters and pictures from his personal archive.
“Reader’s Digest” that he doesn’t like to take selfies or sign autographs for fans anymore because he finds it quite “strange.”“‘Here,” he said. “Can I write your name down on the back of this till receipt please? We both know who I am.”While the British rocker is happy to talk to fans, he doesn’t understand why people need his signature.
Thirteen years after Ringo Starr announced that he would no longer sign autographs, his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney is following suit.“It always struck me as a bit strange”, he tells Reader’s Digest. “‘Here, can you write your name down on the back of this till receipt please?’ Why? We both know who I am”.But I know what you’re thinking.
Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he no longer complies with autograph requests.
Sir Paul McCartney is following in the footsteps of fellow Beatles member Ringo Starr and will no longer be signing autographs.
Sir Paul McCartney, 79, will forever be one of the biggest rockstars on the planet — but one title comes first for The Beatles’ star: dad. Paul is the father of five children, including four with his late wife Linda McCartney.