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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Actor, Songwriter Born: June 18, 1942 in Liverpool, England Biography:In tandem with "John Lennon", musician "Paul McCartney" is responsible for composing most of the songs in the nine-year history of the "Beatles". While still a member of the group, McCartney wrote the score for the 1966 film "The Family Way"; it would be his last solo gig until the "Beatles"' breakup in 1970. So prolific and popular was McCartney in his post-Beatle years that it became a standard joke amongst post-postwar kids to query "You mean that "Paul McCartney" was in a band before Wings?" Also grist for the humor mill was McCartney's incredible wealth; his legal ownership of virtually every song ever written (including such state anthems as "On Wisconsin"); and the strict vegetarian edicts of his wife and business partner Linda Eastman McCartney. "Paul McCartney" has also kept active in the film world, penning the theme for the 1973 James Bond flick "Live And Let Die", and producing, scoring and... Full Biography
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