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Overview[]
James Paul McCartney was an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One of the most successful composers and performers of all time, McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile and wide tenor vocal range, and musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from pre–rock and roll pop to classical, ballads, and electronica. His songwriting partnership with Lennon remains the most successful in history.
Born in Liverpool, McCartney taught himself piano, guitar and songwriting as a teenager, having been influenced by his father, a jazz player, and rock and roll performers such as Little Richard and Buddy Holly. He began his career when he joined Lennon's skiffle group, the Quarrymen, in 1957, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Sometimes called "the cute Beatle", McCartney later involved himself with the London avant-garde and spearheaded the incorporation of experimental aesthetics into the Beatles' studio productions. Starting with the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, he gradually became the band's de facto leader, providing the creative impetus for most of their music and film projects. Many of his Beatles songs, including "And I Love Her", "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby", and "Blackbird", rank among the most covered songs in history. While primarily a bassist with the Beatles, in various songs he played a number of other instruments, including keyboards, guitars, and drums.
Pre-Doomsday[]

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson circa 1981
After the break-up of The Beatles, McCartney continued his musical career, in solo work as well as in collaborations with other musicians. After releasing his solo album McCartney in 1970, he worked with Linda McCartney to record the album Ram in 1971. Later the same year, the pair was joined by guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell to form the group Wings, which was active between 1971 and 1981 and released numerous successful singles and albums. McCartney II and Tug of War were his two solo albums of the Pre-Doomsday period, and a third album Pipes of Peace was comprised for an October, 31, 1983 release that never came.
Post-Doomsday[]
Paul McCartney like most people residing in the United States of America at the time was caught off guard by the nuclear war. He was driving back to his home in the Hamptons from a meeting in New Jersey when reports of nuclear bombs being dropped were first announced. McCartney stopped his car at Exxon gas station near Paramus New Jersey, where a friendly gas attendant was herding people into an antique fallout shelter located on the property. According to McCartney's 2010 autobiography Yesteryear “I was so devastated by the prospect of losing Linda and the children; I tried to free myself from the large set of hands that were leading me to the shelter. At first I tried pleading with the man that I had to save my wife and children, but he would not listen. Then, I told who I was and that I could pay him handsomely, but he won’t relinquish his grip on me. Lastly, I spat at and repeatedly kicked him, but he still didn’t free me. Once inside the bunker, he released me and said in broken English ‘Let them go … they dead now … you live.’ I charged at him and the last thing I remember before waking up in a corner was my face colliding with his fist. That man’s words still haunt me to this day.” The inhabitants of the shelter didn’t believe his claims that he was the real Paul McCartney and instead dubbed him Delusional Dave. McCartney suffered from serious bouts of depression while staying in the shelter and the inhabitants stopped him from trying to kill himself on multiple occasions. He is noted for writing one song during this period called the Ballad of Linda: May God Save Us All on a napkin, but musically he was basically non-existent. Six months after Doomsday the fallout shelter ran out of food and the inhabitants were forced to leave. McCartney strayed from the Gas Station group to find his own path home and spent six months wandering in the wilderness. Around the 2 A.D (After Doomsday) or 1984 he - under pseudonym of Dave - joined a group of wandering Wiccans that secured food through performing music and other arts. In his autobiography McCartney claims that the spirit of John Winston Lennon his former band mate guided him “though the wastelands and into to safe haven.” It is here that McCartney (playing bass at the time) composed the majority of the works that made his up 2002 tour of Pennsylvania To Hell and Back. The Wiccans helped him cope with the loss of his family and by 1985 he openly showed them his driver’s license proving he was the real Paul McCartney. McCartney fostered a relationship with a 26 year old woman known as Mary Ann Powers since

Mary Ann McCartney(Powers) cicra 1989
joining the group and in 1987 married her. Powers suffered from severe burns caused by a boiler explosion in 1983, but McCartney loved her for what she was on the inside. The American public didn’t rediscover McCartney until 1996 when he publicly unveiled himself in Pennsylvania with a performance of “Yesterday” in one of the many city-states of the area. In the spring of 1997 Mary Ann gave birth to a son Paul named John.
Return to Music[]
After the American public rediscovered Paul McCartney in 1996 it wasn't long before he was once again a household name and after sitting on it since before Doomsdays finally decided to "release" Pipes Of Peace" the song became very popular among former Beatles fans and former McCartney hearing of the singers survival, the message of peace was echoed across America and beyond being covered by both Mexican and Canadian bands to fit with their own brand of peace, Starting in 2001 Paul started touring across North America with his family playing songs for money or a place to rest,
Death and Legacy[]
James Paul McCartney passed away peaceful on May 1st 2022 of natural causes.