Paul McCartney

McCartney I, II, and III, which span five decades, will be packaged together for the first time.

Read “ The Beatles: Get Back Rewrites the Fab Four’s Ending.” Each will come with new photo prints and notes from McCartney. Check out an image of the vinyl box set below. Paul McCartney will reissue his three McCartney albums, I, II, and III, on vinyl and CD on August 5.

“Thank you, yeah, you're right, I've got a birthday comin' up,” McCartney said with feigned disgust, a don't-remind-me sort of gag. “And I'm not trying to ...

The thought of McCartney needing a moniker to record “experimental” music amuses me: He's Paul McCartney; the albums under his own name always have cool-weird ...

This is gorgeous inanity in pan and scan; this is the kind of uproarious twaddle in which the singer climaxes with “Oklahoma was never like this!” (It wasn’t). The outro is McCartney at his most unhinged: The machines clatter, Linda and Stewart harmonize like addled Muppets, and McCartney interjects shit like “Ooh, that’s right!” over a beautiful, high synth line. Then he inserts an “ooh!” like the Paul of “She Loves You” — the bleakest “ooh” of his life, a guy leaning on a reflex to keep himself alive. As a result, Band On The Run hit #1 on the Billboard album chart for the first of three residencies. In “The Back Seat of My Car,” the admixture of lyrical banality and orchestral grandeur results in a uniquely hysterical product. Co-writer and uncredited co-producer Eric Stewart of 10cc: “It was ghastly, it was ghastly, and I really felt very sorry that I’d got myself involved…” Because the memory of programming syndrums haunts ’60s casualties like a bad trip, few decent reappraisals of a typically hit-and-miss McCartney album have appeared. No “ Band On The Run,” “ Silly Love Songs,” or “ Ebony And Ivory,” tunes that range from the sublime to the execrable and not part of my McCartney canon. A nimble acoustic-based hook and a straightforward lyric turn “Every Night” into one of the album’s most realized performances. It’s McCartney’s vocal that turns “No Other Baby” into one of the decade’s bleakest depictions of derangement. The odd stresses (“If ya’d taken an ar-rah/ And put it right through me!”) and the after-midnight glow of Linda and Denny Laine’s harmonies suggest an acquaintance with Michael McDonald’s recent Doobie Brothers work. However, it still sounds ungainly, with hits like “ Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” striving for the “Beatlesque” without purpose: an adjective in search of a noun. And McCartney, singing at the top of his range, sounds jazzed, hoping listeners “feel the sense of childlike wonder.” For decades the possibilities of the pop song has been this religious agnostic’s only faith. In the days of mixtapes and CD burning, Paul McCartney was one of those acts like the Fall and Wu-Tang Clan whose immense catalog concealed overlooked corners and underused trails the former Beatle himself had no interest in mentioning.

Paul McCartney is turning 80 and in honor of his brilliant songwriting, we've ranked his 80 best songs. See if you agree with our list.

Forget about the astute narration (barbershops, bankers and roundabouts). Don’t even pay much attention to the heavenly pop melody. Yes. Indicative of McCartney’s desire to stay on the charts (i.e., commercial)? Sure. But it’s also unfairly maligned because Macca is completely in on the ridiculously catchy joke. The original is a gratifying valentine. At just over two minutes, the mostly instrumental platform would barely be a blip for most bands. Part of McCartney’s new wave/disco phase of the times that initially included sped-up vocals. Between the intricate guitar work from George Harrison and Lennon and a set of double-tracked vocals, a new sound in 1960s British pop was born. Songs that he wrote that became hits for others (such as Badfinger’s "Come and Get It" and Elvis Costello’s “Veronica”) weren’t included. As in, that is an insane amount of foresight, even for this guy. Noteworthy because it’s McCartney’s debut single following the Beatles’ breakup in 1970, and was therefore instantly dissected with microscopic precision. While his voice might have more warble to it, his ability to turn the bucolic into something infinitely listenable is still formidable. But – and this is why it squeaked onto the list – it can be considered a bold zigzag that, in retrospect, is at least interesting. But it’s hard to fault McCartney’s intentions – or the song’s easily digestible tunefulness.

The limited-edition collection, dubbed McCartney I II III, presents McCartney (1970), McCartney II (1980), and McCartney III (2020) — three albums on which he ...

McCartney also celebrated his birthday Thursday night during the New Jersey stop of his Got Back tour. Similarly, McCartney II signified the artist’s separation from his post-Beatles group Wings. He wrote, produced, and performed the entire album himself. Fifty years after the first McCartney, the artist decided to do it again with McCartney III, which came out in December 2020. The first McCartney album was the artist’s declaration of independence from the Beatles, an opportunity to show that he could do everything himself. It will be available on colored vinyl, black vinyl, and CD in slipcases that sport new design and typography (that highlights the word “art” within McCartney’s name) by pop artist Ed Ruscha on Aug. 5. A day before he turns 80, Paul McCartney has picked out his own present: a compendium of his self-titled albums, which span a half-century of his life.

Paul McCartney welcomed his 80th birthday singing timeless tunes with Bruce Springsteen and getting serenaded by Jon Bon Jovi in concert.

McCartney was so touched, he took to social media to share a photo of his birthday surprise after the concert. “Paul always has the audience eating out of his hand. Bon Jovi gave Paul a kiss before he handed Paul the birthday balloon.”

Paul's three iconic solo albums (McCartney, McCartney II, and McCartney III) available together for the first time as a limited-edition box set – August 5th ...

In an unrivaled career, Paul has always been willing to take risks and have fun along the way – his musical projects have included classical albums, electronic albums, ballet scores, writing for video games, and left-field collaborations — along the way, breaking chart records, box office records, winning countless awards and remaining one of the world’s most influential and revered artists of all time. Upon release, McCartney III charted at Number One on the UK’s Official Album Charts and Number One on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart. Bookending 50 years of unparalleled work, each album demonstrates Paul McCartney’s restless creativity and adventurous artistic spirit.

CRAIG BROWN: He almost didn't make it. When Mary McCartney gave birth in Liverpool's Walton General Hospital on June 18, 1942, her baby wasn't moving or ...

What the wave is to the Queen, the thumbs-up is to Paul McCartney. At the grand old age of 80, Paul McCartney is one of the few Britons alive who can be assured his place in history. Immediately, he flew the little girl and her parents to London, and paid for a team of specialists from New York to operate on her at Great Ormond Street hospital. He formed a new band, Wings, and took them on the road in a van, turning up unannounced in university cities and offering to play. For three years, from 1964 to 1967, while the others lived in their Surrey mansions, he lived in the centre of London with the Ashers, the remarkable family of his girlfriend, Jane. With their encouragement, he hoovered up all that the London art scene could offer. It became a message of hope not just for Julian, but for the world. Paul had always been close to Julian, playing Cowboys and Indians with him while John read the newspapers. It was Paul who had the bounce, the get-up-and-go, the inexhaustible need to achieve. For instance, he says that the Lady Madonna, which ‘portrays a very present, nurturing mother has got to be influenced by that terrible sense of loss’. There is often a sadness at the heart of even his jolliest songs, and joy at the heart of even his saddest songs. ‘John, because of his upbringing and his unstable family life, had to be hard, witty, always ready for the cover up, ready for the riposte, ready with the sharp little witticism. The peculiar power of the music they composed together, its magic and its beauty, lies in the intermingling of these opposites. For both youngsters, this left a gaping hole that for the rest of their lives they tried to fill with song.

Springsteen wished McCartney "80 more years of glory days" before performing his 1984 hit "Glory Days" with the former Beatle, whose 80th birthday is on ...

"I have a tattoo on my arm, which is cause this person is my hero," he said. So I'm deeply looking forward to getting out there in front of our fans." Onstage, McCartney referred to Springsteen's appearance as a "birthday present to myself."

Hard to think of a better way for Paul McCartney to celebrate his 80th birthday than by singing "Glory Days'' onstage with Bruce Springsteen.

He couldn’t have imagined that in 2022, one adult standing in line to get into MetLife being overheard asking a companion: “Where are Mom and Dad?” The fragility in his voice was evident while singing “Blackbird” on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, the final night of a brief U.S. tour. For most artists, the appearance of such local royalty would be a hard-to-top moment. He struggled for the high notes in “Here Today,” his love letter to John Lennon, who was robbed of a long life by an assassin’s bullet. “He has a youthful exuberance that is ageless,” said Bob Spitz, a Beatles biographer. Another 1960s icon, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, is scheduled to play at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City on his 80th birthday Monday.

PRNewswire/ -- Written, performed, and produced entirely by Paul McCartney, his three eponymous career-spanning solo albums (1970's McCartney, 1980's...

In an unrivaled career, Paul has always been willing to take risks and have fun along the way – his musical projects have included classical albums, electronic albums, ballet scores, writing for video games, and left-field collaborations — along the way, breaking chart records, box office records, winning countless awards and remaining one of the world's most influential and revered artists of all time. An intimate and loose record featuring "Find My Way" and the now live favorite "Women and Wives," McCartney III features Paul's melodic gift at its forefront throughout. The newly created boxset cover art and typography for the slipcase are by Ed Ruscha. To pre-order McCartney I II III, please click HERE.

In celebration of the former Beatle's 80th birthday, we look back at the songs that showcase his melodic genius.

You might hate some of the songs that were chosen, and you might love some that were left off. For the purposes of this list, McCartney’s solo career includes things like Ram, which is credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, and the releases with his post-Beatles band Wings. Not included, however, is McCartney’s classical work or the Fireman, his experimental project with Youth. Obviously, these kinds of lists are subjective and intensely personal, and many of you will have issues with this one. McCartney’s solo work has undergone a well-deserved critical reevaluation since the ’90s, with once reviled albums like Ram and McCartney II now hailed as hidden gems and ahead-of-their time masterpieces.

We're celebrating the Paul McCartney at 80 by looking back at the life, times and music he has produced from The Beatles to Ram and 'Here Today'.

Many musicians and fans will be sharing in that sentiment as his long and winding life arrives at 80 and the forthcoming ‘na na na nas’ at Glastonbury that seem so fitting in hopefully paving a way to a brighter future. But above all, people will be celebrating the man himself, and that is the true mark of his story to date. Here Today: Throughout the ‘70s, McCartney might have been a man on the run, but the undertow of his legacy was always there, and he was tragically forced to redress it when Lennon was murdered. On his first record since his passing, McCartney penned the song ‘Here Today’ which included the line, “What about the night we cried”. Later, he spoke about the being holed up in Key West, Florida in ’64 as a hurricane raged outside: “It was during that night, when we’d all stayed up way too late, and we got so pissed that we ended up crying—about, you know, how wonderful we were, and how much we loved each other, even though we’d never said anything. During times of trouble, the former Beatle recalled, “the lightbulb went off one day when we realised that we could just run away.” With that epiphany, McCartney allowed himself to recline into the fruits of his honest toil and the justly paid dues and basked in the harvest of munificent concessions. Proving himself as a solo act, in the same way that Michael Phelps might prove himself to be a viable lifeguard, he sunk into family life with Linda McCartney and his daughter Mary and entered a new chapter. And during a low point in 1970, McCartney went into a little room with the set-up “like a professor in his laboratory” and produced ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ whereby he shouted and screamed a melodic gem that may well be his greatest performance on record. Maybe I’m Amazed: In the aftermath, McCartney was quietly struggling to come to terms with the breakup of The Beatles. He later told his daughter, Mary: “I nearly had a breakdown. The boy was John Lennon, and he was about to play a second set of the day with the Quarrymen, when their tea-chest bass player Ivan Vaughan, introduced him to his classmate ‘Macca’. When Vaughan passed away in 1993, it prompted McCartney to start writing poetry again. 12 years later, McCartney would recall, “I had a dream in the sixties, where my mum who died came to me in a dream and was reassuring me saying: It’s going to be okay. At the time, that wasn’t far from one in 16 people on the entire planet receiving a message of unified peace in one fell swoop of sonic beauty. After all, if it can be said about anyone, then it can be said about ‘Macca’, that man and music are one and the same.

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY - who celebrates his 80th birthday - has amassed a huge fortune during his 65-year musical career, from gigs to copyrights to record ...

He was widowed after she died of cancer. While generous, the former Beatle has claimed that he also possesses a frugal streak, which he attributed to his working-class upbringing in Liverpool. As well as helping those close to him, Sir Paul has also donated massive amounts to charities over the years. Sir Paul went on to release a further 20 solo albums, and in 2017 managed to regain control of the rights to the Beatles’ catalogue in a private settlement with Sony ATV. Speaking to The New York Times Magazine in 2020, he said: “One of the great things now about money is what you can do with it. As a founder member of the Beatles, Sir Paul is one of the most influential people in music history and one of the most successful, with the Beatles having sold more than 1.6 billion records.

Paul McCartney is celebrating his 80th birthday after decades of success. He was one of the four Beatles with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

David Fincher’s semi-fictional retelling of Zuckerberg’s life details the education of the Harvard student, creating the social media site on a whim one day as a result of his own social dissatisfaction. It’s no secret that Wes Anderson loves a good musical score, with The Royal Tenenbaums featuring one of the very best of his entire filmography. Like many of the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza gives audiences an objective, atmospheric impression of a certain place and time. The film was made all the better by one scene in which Russell uses ‘Live and Let Die’ by The Beatles when Jennifer Lawrence’s character is cleaning the house. As such, they have gone on to influence some of the finest minds in music and cinema, including the likes of Dave Grohl, Brian Wilson, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen and Noel and Liam Gallagher. Paul McCartney also recently revealed on the radio show ‘John Lennon at 80’ that he, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Lennon had been greatly influenced by the work of Bob Dylan.

It's hard to think of a better way for Paul McCartney to celebrate his 80th birthday than by singing Glory Days onstage with Bruce Springsteen or being serenaded by some 60,000 well-wishers. That's right, the "cute Beatle" turns 80 on Saturday.

With the help of Peter Jackson, who re-imagined the Get Back sessions for last year's television project, McCartney was able to perform a virtual "duet" with Lennon singing his part of I've Got A Feeling from the Apple rooftop concert. He couldn't have imagined that in 2022, one adult standing in line to get into MetLife being overheard asking a companion: "Where are Mum and Dad?" The fragility in his voice was evident while singing Blackbird on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, the final night of a brief US tour. Stereogum's feature illustrated the varied entry points musicians of different generations have into a living, breathing catalogue. Another 1960s icon, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, is scheduled to play at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City on his 80th birthday on Monday. -- along with an appreciation of what he still has to offer.

Renowned musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney has always had a playful sense of style. To celebrate his birthday on Saturday, we take a look back at ...

By 1993, the singer had ditched the '70s lapels and moved with the times. Graphic knits and striking shirts were a mainstay for the former Beatle, pictured here with British rock group Wings at Abbey Road Studios in 1974. While performing his theme tune for the new Bond movie "Live and Let Die," McCartney paired a beaded necklace with a funky sweater vest. Anywhere was a runway for McCartney -- including the airport runway, where he was often photographed boarding and exiting jets sporting purple-lense aviator sunglasses or decorative Western shirts with a child perched on his hip. While the former Beatle may be known for his immeasurable contribution to music, Paul McCartney also has a well-documented penchant for fashion. Renowned musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney has always had a playful sense of style.

Fans and stars alike have flocked to social media to pay tribute to Paul McCartney on the legendary singer-songwriter's 80th birthday.

Recreating Band On The Run with Kasabian in 2010, Cologne was something else on tour in 2009 (I think?), visiting Windmill studios in Sussex or MPL in Soho, where he noodled away on an acoustic. “Let it be” that Sir @PaulMcCartney know that his musical generosity of spirit and love have forever changed the world with positivity, joy and screaming happiness. you have inspired me and many others through your music and through the years you've never stopped sharing your talents with us, thank you so so much. He asked “What should we do”? I said, “Can we sing ooooooh”? Happy Birthday Sir. ❤️ @PaulMcCartney pic.twitter.com/fF8DbeOEjq (And, yes, I was a John person, but how can you not LOVE Paul?)pic.twitter.com/dUe7IZXqAg Happy 80th Birthday to his royal highness Paul McCartney. Here's an illustration I did in celebration. Working class northern council estate kid who changed the history of the world. Thanks for all the memories Paul. Love you x pic.twitter.com/ZX0taiV5JX Thanks for all the memories Paul. Love you x” He shares his birthday with my Daughter who is now 15 and admires the Beatles enormously. Simply Red‘s Mick Hucknall tweeted: “Britains greatest living songwriter Sir Paul McCartney is 80 today. The official Twitter accounts for McCartney’s late bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison each posted a birthday message.

It's hard to think of a better way for Paul McCartney to celebrate his 80th birthday than by singing Glory Days onstage with Bruce Springsteen or being ...

He couldn’t have imagined that in 2022, one adult standing in line to get into MetLife being overheard asking a companion: “Where are Mum and Dad?” The fragility in his voice was evident while singing Blackbird on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, the final night of a brief US tour. Stereogum‘s feature illustrated the varied entry points musicians of different generations have into a living, breathing catalogue. Another 1960s icon, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, is scheduled to play at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City on his 80th birthday on Monday. He struggled for the high notes in Here Today, his love letter to John Lennon, who was robbed of a long life by an assassin’s bullet. — along with an appreciation of what he still has to offer.

I wasn't even born when The Beatles did their one and only tour of Australia. And they broke up the year after I was born. So I never got to see the Fab ...

Be the first to see NOISE.com’s newest interviews and special features on YOUTUBE and updated regularly. In the Paul fandom, we like to hold up signs for him to read. Tessa is a Seattlelite, so it was fortunate that the Got Back tour’s opening night was to be in Spokane, a mere five hour drive away (or six, if you somehow manage to throw your phone out of the window, going 70 MPH down some highway…). It was a thrill to witness thousands and thousands of people singing along to every song, knowing most of the audience spoke very little English. I was in almost the same spot again. When he announced an American tour earlier this year, I had to be there, so after many calls with my dear friend Tessa (we’d been in New York on 9/11 due to going to see Paul at a function. I don’t think there was any way to buy them outside of Russia, but I had a feeling it would all work out OK. And it did. I listened to it and fell in love with it. Right in the very front of the stage! So I never got to see the Fab Four. I’d moved to London the previous year, and talk about timing. The very stuff that John Lennon accused Paul of making, ‘Granny music’; classics such as ‘Yellow Submarine’ and ‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’, etc.

The former Beatle's long and rich musical career is marked by a refusal to rest on his artistic laurels.

For the past several years, he has made a point of performing Jimi Hendrix's epic guitar lick for "Foxy Lady" during the outro for "Let Me Roll It," a Wings-era track from "Band on the Run." As you raise a glass in honor of McCartney's 80th birthday, consider his motives for breaking off the same guitar pyrotechnics virtually every time he steps on stage. Take last Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, where McCartney closed out the Stateside leg of his "Got Back" tour. The same composer who reconceived the rock album in 1967 with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was still mining out new sounds in 2020 with "McCartney III." And still he persists in searching out uncharted creative vistas — and, whenever possible, showing off. He was barely 21 when British Beatlemania came into vogue in the autumn months of 1963. By all rights, he should be marking time as a pensioner, renting a cottage in the Isle of Wight or some such thing. A decade later, when the Who declared "I hope I die before I get old" in "My Generation," no self-respecting rocker set his sights on retirement, much less living into middle-age.

A 15-year-old McCartney met John Lennon during a fateful performance of Lennon's skiffle band, The Quarrymen. While setting their instruments up for the evening ...

Same as McCartney, the new LP was recorded at a small at-home studio with Paul playing the majority of the album himself. Rich in experimentation, the LP saw McCartney take a step back from the often polished nature of the Beatles, opting for a spacier sound. On June 25, McCartney will take the Pyramid Stage for the first time since his 2014 appearance. Across the album are the likes of Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent, Dev Hynes, Damon Albarn, and more. Taking just two weeks to complete, Wild Life was a spontaneous debut album full of one-take recordings and songs that seemed more like jam sessions. In 1971, Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell, Paul, and Linda began working on their debut album under the Wings moniker. The McCartney’s and Laine then brought on guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Joe English. The Beatles did just that beginning in the early ’60s, taking their homegrown success to a world eagerly opening up to the burgeoning phenomenon that was rock n’ roll. Their career launched to new heights with an iconic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, where they played “All My Lovin,” “Till There Was You” and “She Loves You.” Known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, McCartney is one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. By 1964, it was full-fledged “Beatlemania” worldwide, as the four mop tops dominated the U.S. and UK pop charts. Struck by his performance, Lennon asked McCartney to join the outfit permanently.

It's another day in Twickenham studios, where McCartney is single-handedly wrestling the Beatles into recording a new album. John Lennon, George Harrison and ...

In recent decades, he has worked with younger producers including Mark Ronson, Nigel Godrich and Kanye West and recorded three freewheeling albums with Youth under the alias The Fireman. He is also a generous live performer who knows fans want to hear three hours of the songs that have soundtracked their lives. He closed, as always, with The End, his simple valediction to the Beatles, Lennon’s favourite McCartney lyric, and the purest expression of his worldview: “And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” Rock stars are accustomed to receiving love: McCartney is just as good at giving it back. Standards such as Let It Be and Yesterday are almost too famous to appreciate as entities that a young man sat down and wrote rather than plucking out of the ether. “It was going to be: John was the one.” What must be especially satisfying for McCartney is the long, ongoing reassessment of his post-Beatles work: the DIY farmhouse intimacy of his self-titled solo debut; the ambitious multi-part songwriting of Wings’ 1973 blockbuster Band on the Run, recorded in Lagos; the eccentric synthesizer experiments of 1980’s McCartney II. Tom Doyle’s biography Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s makes a strong case for McCartney as a risk-taking adventurer whose efforts to reinvent himself were far from cosy. “People say, I’m really scared to meet you,” he told Q in 2001. The Beatles became a global advertisement for youth and friendship – Paul and John wrote many of those early hits knee to knee, eyeball to eyeball – and their split was a generational trauma. “He used to be the one to get things moving,” Starr said after the band’s break-up in 1970. “I understood that now there was going to be revisionism,” he told Esquire in 2015. “It was this idea of ‘What do I do now?’” His daughter Stella, the fashion designer, reflected that “we spent a lot of our childhood with dad recovering from the turmoil and the break-up”. “The job was gone, and it was more than the job, obviously – it was the Beatles, the music, my musical life, my collaborator,” he told the New Yorker last year. In this particular scene he’s at the piano, guiding the band through a hymn-like new number while his fiancée Linda Eastman chats to Yoko Ono in the foreground.

Sir Paul McCartney was greeted with a plethora of well wishes on Saturday as a host of celebrities wished him a happy 80th birthday, with Yoko Ono, ...

He said: '“Let it be” that Sir @PaulMcCartney know that his musical generosity of spirit and love have forever changed the world with positivity, joy and screaming happiness. He said: '“Let it be” that Sir @PaulMcCartney know that his musical generosity of spirit and love have forever changed the world with positivity, joy and screaming happiness' Today is a beautiful day.' (This version is a bit rough because it’s such a pretty song I kept getting choked up and staring again!).' Today is a beautiful day' Simply Red's Mick Hucknall meanwhile shared a touching message on Twitter, he said: 'Britain's greatest living songwriter Sir Paul McCartney is 80 today. Lovely: Simply Red's Mick Hucknall meanwhile shared a touching message on Twitter, he said: 'Britain's greatest living songwriter Sir Paul McCartney is 80 today. Tribute: Meanwhile, Paul's daughter Mary took to her stories and wished her father a happy birthday alongside snap of her in a Beatles top with the words 'They say it's your birthday' Meanwhile, Paul's daughter Mary took to her stories and wished her father a happy birthday alongside snap of her in a Beatles top with the words 'They say it's your birthday'. Well wishes: Yoko, the widow of Paul's Beatles bandmate John Lennon, took to Twitter at the weekend to share a throwback snap of herself and the birthday boy Yoko, the widow of Paul's Beatles bandmate John Lennon, took to Twitter at the weekend to share a throwback snap of herself and the birthday boy. While fellow Beatles star Ringo Starr uploaded an image of himself flashing a peace sign as he penned: 'They say it’s your birthday Saturday happy birthday Paul love you man have a great day peace and love Ringo and Barbara love love peace and love.'

Ex-Beatle turned 80 on Saturday, days after a brief US tour which saw him joined on stage by Bruce Springsteen.

During his career, Sir Paul has won 18 Grammys, been awarded an OBE and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Thank you for raising awareness of the SaveCrueltyFreeCosmetics European Citizens’ Initiative.” The ex-Beatle turned 80 on Saturday, days after finishing a brief US tour.

As a worldwide treasure, everyone poured out love for McCartney's 80th trip around the sun. Happy 80 birthday to the legendary Paul McCartney! pic ...

Some of the more famous (or, really, the very best, in this writer’s opinion) include: Back in 2017, our Charles Curtis embarked on quite an ambitious endeavor and ranked all 188 (!) Beatles songs and ranked all of their albums the following year. With McCartney celebrating his 80th birthday Saturday, we thought it appropriate to quickly sum up the man, the myth, the heartthrob.

Sean Ono Lennon calls Paul McCartney the "emperor of pop" in his thoughtful birthday message, complete with a song as tribute.

In his Instagram video, he plays ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ as a tribute to the artist, a song his father had once called one of The Beatles best. Sean Ono Lennon posted on both Twitter and Instagram to wish McCartney a happy birthday, calling him the “emperor of pop” in the process. Having the names Ono and Lennon tacked onto your title is enough to create a big expectation or two.

A little birdy told me this was one of your your fav Beatles tunes. So Happy Birthday! Thank you for all the beautiful music. You have mine and the whole ...

The Beatles’ Twitter also marked the occasion with a minute-long tribute video: (This version is a bit rough because it’s such a pretty song I kept getting choked up and staring again!)” You have mine and the whole world’s undying love and respect.