Paul McCartney At 77 Years Old: A Timeline Of Everything He's Accomplished (So Far)

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Paul McCartney At 77 Years Old: A Timeline Of Everything He's Accomplished (So Far)
The original Beatle will go down as one of the best of all time...
BY MICHAEL CHAAR
APR 30, 2020

Paul McCartney is without a doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicians in the history of music. McCartney gained notoriety in the 1960s when he and Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and John Lennon created The Beatles, a band that will remain the best of all time.

As a member of The Beatles, McCartney wrote and produced a number of hit songs for the group, that is until his departure 10 years later in 1970. Despite leaving The Beatles, Paul McCartney found even more success as a solo artist, scoring a number of Hot 100 number ones and albums.

After proving himself to be one of the best there is, the singer has been honoured with a number of awards and titles that only very few people have been given. From being a member of the hottest band in the world to a super successful solo career, here are 13 of Paul McCartney's most memorable achievements.

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Member Of The Biggest Music Group In History



When it comes to Paul McCartney's accomplishments over the course of his career, the biggest remains the fact that he was a member of the biggest band in music history. McCartney, who was a lead vocalist and guitar player during the groups time together, is currently one of two of the only remaining members of the band to still be alive!

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He Has Won Multiple Grammy Awards



There is no doubt that Paul McCartney has proven himself to be one of the most notorious musicians in music history, and his Grammy's prove just that. Paul received 9 Grammy's when he was a part of The Beatles, and a whopping 18 Grammy's as a solo artist! Talk about being a decorated artist.

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Inducted In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame With The Beatles



After releasing hit after hit, and creating what was known to be Beatlemania, The Beatles were an untouchable group that broke music records with each album. Considering just how incredible Paul and the gang were, it was only fitting for them to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988!

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And Inducted In The Hall Of Fame As A Solo Artist



After being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Beatles back in 1988, Paul McCartney could add another accomplishment to his list after being inducted to the Hall of Fame as a solo artist only 11 years later! The star was also honoured by former Beatles member and friend, Ringo Starr, at the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.

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He Was Knighted By The Queen Herself



While Paul McCartney is, in fact, Paul McCartney, he is also famously known as Sir Paul McCartney and it is all thanks to the Queen! Only two years before being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Paul McCartney was knighted by Queen Elizabeth herself in 1997 and was later given the Legion of Honour in 2012 by her majesty yet again.

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He & John Lennon Wrote Most Of The Beatles Songs



Whether you were a fan of The Beatles or not, there is no denying that they came out with some of the greatest music ever. From "Let It Be", "Hey Jude", and "Here Comes The Sun", The Beatles have managed to score themselves a number of hits, and it is all thanks to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, who wrote the majority of the bands hit songs during their time together.

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He Scored More Number Ones Than Anyone Else



During his time with The Beatles, his various other groups, and as a solo artist, Paul McCartney has managed to write, produce and record a whopping 22 Billboard Hot 100 number one songs. Not only is this a huge achievement for McCartney, but it is also the current record for most number-one songs! The only artist to come even close to such a feat is Mariah Carey, who currently holds 19 number one hits.

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Paul Co-Founded Apple Records



During his time as a Beatle, Paul McCartney and the rest of the group opened up their very own record company, titled Apple Records, in 1968! They created the label mainly for other artists, however, they began to represent themselves and began recording songs under their very own label.

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He Has Been A Part Of A Couple Musical Groups



Paul McCartney broke the hearts of millions upon millions of people when he announced that he would officially be leaving The Beatles in 1970. He was the first member to leave the band after having far too many creative differences, which later inspired him to create a new band alongside his wife, Linda, called Paul McCartney & Wings.

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He Has Amassed A Net Worth Of Over A Billion Dollars



Over the course of Paul McCartney's nearly 60-year career as a musician, he has managed to sell out stadiums across the world, reaching number one in just about every country, and break more records than any artist in the world. With that many achievements, it is no surprise that the artist has managed to amass a net worth of over $1.2 billion, yes, billion with a B!

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McCartney Also Founded A Performing Arts School



As someone as successful in music as Paul McCartney, it would only be fitting for the musician to open up a music institute of his own, so he did! McCartney founded and opened the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 1996, which is a higher education institute for like-minded musicians exploring their creative selves in one of England's most prestigious music schools.

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Received A Number Of Prizes Due To His Musical Contributions



As someone as decorated as Paul McCartney, it is no surprise that the artist continues to receive all sorts of honours and awards at this point in his career. One of the most prestigious awards Paul has received was back in 2014 where he was honoured with the Gershwin Award by none other than former President Barack Obama.

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Named MusiCares Person Of The Year



In addition to his massive collection of awards and honours, Paul McCartney was also named MusiCares Person of the Year back in 2012! This additional honour is yet another reason as to why Paul McCartney is and always will be one of the greatest musicians to ever grace the entertainment industry.

Terry Doran, confidant of the Beatles and Brian Epstein – obituary

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Terry Doran, confidant of the Beatles and Brian Epstein – obituary
A man from the motor trade, he supplied the Fab Four with cars, rolled their joints and supplied a missing word for A Day in the Life
By Telegraph Obituaries
26 April 2020


Terry Doran
CREDIT: Roy Brigden/Daily Mail/Shutterstock

Terry Doran, who has died of Covid-19 aged 80, was a close friend and confidant of the Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein, and who over the years played a variety of supporting roles in the lives of the group.

Described by the Beatles’ biographer, Mark Lewisohn, as “a laugh, joint-roller and merry tripper”, Doran, a former car salesman, was initially responsible for supplying the Beatles with a succession of luxury automobiles; he was then involved in running the Beatles’ Apple music publishing company, and acted successively as personal assistant and right-hand man for John Lennon and George Harrison.

Terence James Doran was born on December 14 1939 in Liverpool, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (nee Molloy), and the second of four children.

In 1959 he was working as a car salesman at a dealership in Warrington when he met Brian Epstein, who was then managing his family’s NEMS record stores, in a Liverpool pub. The pair became friends, and when Epstein became manager of the Beatles it was Doran who provided the group with their first cars (George Harrison’s was a second-hand, two-door, blue Ford Anglia 105E Deluxe).

Doran with George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd in 1969
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When Epstein and the group moved to London, Doran followed, and with Epstein as a partner set up a dealership called Brydor Cars, with a showroom in an old cinema in Hounslow, which supplied a succession of luxury saloons and fast sports cars to the group and other pop stars including the Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues and the Yardbirds. The Stones’ manager Andrew Oldham bought a Rolls Royce Phantom V, just like John Lennon’s.

Epstein preferred cash deals, and he and Doran would often spend evenings gambling the profits at the White Elephant club in Mayfair. The business was eventually dissolved.

Doran’s easy-going nature and quick Scouse wit made him a popular figure within the Beatles’ inner circle. He liked to tell the friends that the line “Meeting a man from the motor trade” in the song She’s Leaving Home, was a “tip of the hat” to him from Paul McCartney, although McCartney maintained it was “just fiction”. But John Lennon did credit Doran for contributing the verb “fill” to his song A Day in the Life during the recording of the song at Abbey Road.

“There was still one word missing in that verse when we came to record. I knew the line had to go: “Now they know how many holes it takes to – something – the Albert Hall.” It was a nonsense verse really, but for some reason I couldn’t think of the verb. It was Terry who said ‘fill’ the Albert Hall, and that was it.’

In 1967, Doran became managing director of Apple Music Publishing, one of the numerous commercial ventures funded by the Beatles. Working from a cramped office above the Apple boutique in Baker Street, he assembled the musicians to form the group Grapefruit – a name suggested by Lennon after a book written by his future wife, Yoko Ono. Doran managed the group, and also briefly, and unhappily, Mary Hopkin.

Doran in 1969 at Heathrow Airport with George Harrison, returning from a holiday in Sardinia
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Doran was a flamboyant figure, with an aureole of permed air and a dandyish taste in clothing, who drove around London in a large Rover painted in psychedelic swirls by the two Dutch artists collectively known as The Fool, who were also responsible for decorating the Apple boutique.

His greatest talent was not for business, but for friendship, kindness and amusement – “a rock and roll Frankie Howerd”, as one friend remembers, with a decidedly camp sense of humour, but “who kept his persuasion to himself”. He was also famed within music circles for rolling the best joints in London, while at the same being able to maintain a sense of equilibrium even as all around him were losing theirs.

He was particularly close to John Lennon. Early on in the Beatles’ success, he looked after Lennon’s “pocket money” – which would be doled out to the group by Brian Epstein – and after leaving Apple Music he became Lennon’s personal assistant and companion.

For a while he was an almost constant presence at Lennon’s home, Kenwood, in St Georges Hill, Surrey. At a time when Lennon was spending much of his time watching television, lost in an LSD haze, Doran took care of domestic duties, which included escorting Lennon’s then wife Cynthia on outings to London and the Speakeasy club, where Doran was a regular fixture. Even when Lennon was available for paternal duties his son Julian came to prefer Doran putting him to bed.

Lennon once said he would keep Doran around for as long as he made him laugh. But when in 1969 Lennon married Yoko Ono the arrangement came to an end.

George Harrison asked Doran to become his personal assistant, and he moved into a lodge in the grounds at Friar Park, Harrison’s 120-room neo-Gothic Victorian mansion near Henley-on-Thames. Doran would jokingly complain to friends about the “half-mile journey from the living room to the kitchen”, maintaining that no matter how wealthy, “You can only live in one room at a time.”

Members of Grapefruit, the band Doran managed, seated, with Brian Jones, Donovan, The Beatles and Cilla Black
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Like Harrison, he developed a keen interest in Indian spirituality. Jerry Shirley, the drummer for Humble Pie, was a friend of Doran’s. In 1970, when Shirley was just 18, his mother died. He tells the story of how he was in the Speakeasy drowning his sorrows when Doran suddenly appeared out of the blue.

“I don’t know how he’d found out that she’d died or where I was, but he sat me down, gave me a book and said ‘read this’. It was The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, with some very pertinent paragraphs about loss and grief, which Terry had underlined in ink. I still have it. The fact that he had a lot of responsibility on his shoulders and that he would have taken the time to seek me out and do that for me, I will never forget that. He also made me laugh out loud many, many times. He was a wonderful man.”

Doran proved extremely useful in tempering the spiritual with the practical. For a while Harrison invited members of the Hare Krishna movement to live at Friar Park, but they proved to be neglectful parents. One toddler, left to wander around on his own and fell in a deep fountain in the gardens and would have died had Doran not rushed to the fountain and dived in and saved him. Harrison’s wife Pattie Boyd angrily reproached the parents to be told that “Krishna looks after them.”

The group eventually moved out when in 1973 Harrison bought them a mansion of their own in Hertfordshire, which was renamed Bhaktivedanta Manor. 

In the early 1980s Doran left Friar Park and moved to California, where he set up a business running rehearsal rooms. He later returned to his old job as a car salesman, this time in a dealership in Park Lane.

Always physically frail, in later years he suffered from Parkinson’s disease and spent his last years in a nursing home in North London.

Doran, who once described the Beatles as “the finest human beings I’ve known”, always maintained an unswerving loyalty to the group, and he was one of the few of their inner circle to maintain a discreet and enduring silence about their lives, resisting offers to write his own account of his time with them and refusing to discuss them in interviews and documentaries.

Terry Doran never married.

Terry Doran, born December 14 1939, died April 18 2020 

Terry Doran, middle, with John Lennon (and Mike McGear on right?)

Mick Jagger slams rival Paul McCartney for bragging Beatles were better than The Rolling Stones

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Mick Jagger slams rival Paul McCartney for bragging Beatles were better than The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger blasted rival Paul McCartney for suggesting The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles' style during their time as music rivals in the 60s
By Nika Shakhnazarova
Celebrity & Showbiz Reporter
25 APR 2020




Mick Jagger has launched a stinging attack on rival musician Paul McCartney.

The rocker, 76, hit out at Paul, 77, for suggesting The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles' style during their time as music rivals.

Mick bragged about the monumental success of The Rolling Stones in an interview on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show.

The musician was quick to clear up the "differences" between The Rolling Stones and The Beatles following McCartney's remarks about the rival bands.

He said: “There’s obviously no competition. He [Paul] is a sweetheart. I’m a politician.

"The big difference, though, is that The Rolling Stones is a big concert band in other decades and other areas when The Beatles never even did an arena tour."


Mick Jagger has slammed Paul McCartney's claim

He continued: “They broke up before the touring  business started for real...[in around 1969].

“They [The Beatles] did that [Shea] stadium gig. But the Stones went on.

“We started stadium gigs in the 1970s and are still doing them now. That’s the real big difference between these two bands."


Mick didn't appreciate Paul's comment about the two bands (Image: AFP/Getty Images)

He continued: “One band is unbelievably luckily still playing in stadiums and then the other band doesn't exist.”

His comment comes after Paul bragged The Beatles had an edge over The Rolling Stones in an interview with Howard Stern.

The musician went as far to say John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were so cool he thought The Stones copied whatever they did.

During the 1960s, the bands were battling it out for the glory in the charts.


Sir Paul suggested that The Rolling Stones copied The Beatles' style (Image: PA)

He said: “I love the Stones but The Beatles were better.

“Their stuff is rooted in the blues. Whereas we had a lot more influences.

“Keith (Richards) once said to me, ‘You were lucky man. You had four singers in your band. We got one’. We started to notice that whatever we did the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter."


Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison split in 1970 (Image: Michael Ochs Archives)

He added: “We went to America and had huge success, then the Stones went to America. We did Sergeant Pepper and the Stones did a psychedelic album. There was a lot of that.”

Slurs aside, Paul said he remained close to The Rolling Stones' members Mick, Keith, 76, Ronnie Wood, 72, and Charlie Watts, 78.

Coronavirus: Stars take part in One World: Together At Home concert

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Coronavirus: Stars take part in One World: Together At Home concert
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Saturday 18 Apr 2020


Actress Jameela Jamil introduced the event telling viewers: "Put your wallets away, the money has already been raised"

A star-studded global event to support frontline workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak has begun.

The One World: Together At Home show will see more than 100 artists including the Rolling Stones and Billie Eilish play live from their homes.

Lady Gaga, who helped organise the concert, will also perform.

The eight-hour event run by the Global Citizen movement and the World Health Organization (WHO) is being live-streamed and broadcast on TV.

It began with a montage of people under lockdown applauding the efforts of healthcare workers around the world - from France, Spain, the UK and US and elsewhere.

"To all of our frontline healthcare workers, we are with you. Thank you for being there for us," read an on-screen caption.

The event will also be telling real-life stories of nurses and doctors fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

Proceeds generated from the concert will go to the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO, but Lady Gaga has made clear that the show is not a fundraising telethon and will focus on entertainment and messages of solidarity.

The global music marathon began with US singer songwriter Andra Day

The event began with a six-hour pre-concert at 19:00 BST on Saturday, with a two-hour TV broadcast due to start at 01:00 BST on Sunday.

Kicking it off, actress Jameela Jamil said: "We are here for a moment of respite and hopefully joy as we celebrate our true heroes. Thank you for risking your lives every day to save the lives of others."

First to perform was US singer songwriter Andra Day, who sang the ballad Rise Up from her apartment.

Rita Ora gave a pre-recorded performance of her 2014 song I Will Never Let You Down

One Direction star Niall Horan followed shortly afterwards singing Black and White with an acoustic guitar from his living room and former bandmate Liam Payne followed later with the song Midnight. "It's a pretty dark time for us all right now... and I feel we're all being brought a lot closer together by this solidarity," he said.

Two members of The Killers performed their hit Mr Brightside while US singer Adam Lambert gave a rendition of the Tears for Fears song Mad World and Jessie J sang Flashlight. Contributions were also expected from Sheryl Crow, Annie Lennox and Christine and the Queens.

Rita Ora urged viewers to stay safe and follow WHO recommendations, before singing I Will Never Let You Down.

"We may be apart right now, but coming together has never been more important," Global Citizen said in a statement earlier.

American TV personalities Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon will host the main two-hour show, which will also feature Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Martin, Pharrell Williams, Rita Ora, Sam Smith, Elton John and Paul McCartney.

The entire event is being streamed live on Amazon Prime Video, Facebook, Instagram, TuneIn, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube; with Apple, Music, Apple TV, and Apple Beats 1 joining for the main show.

In the UK, BBC One will screen highlights of the concert at 19:15-21:15 BST on Sunday.

It will include extra performances from British artists like Little Mix, Sir Tom Jones and Rag 'N' Bone Man and additional footage will also be available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.

Stars including Paul McCartney and Emilia Clarke to share stories of NHS care in new book

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Stars including Paul McCartney and Emilia Clarke to share stories of NHS care in new book
Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You has been assembled from some of the best-known voices in the UK in a week and will be published in July
Alison Flood
Published on Fri 17 Apr 2020


‘Every single one of us owes so much to the NHS’ … Lorraine Kelly talking to Adam Kay on Good Morning Britain on Friday morning. Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Adam Kay, who has topped bestseller charts with his stories of life as as junior doctor in This Is Going to Hurt, is pulling together a book of “love letters to the NHS” from major names including Paul McCartney, Michael Palin, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson.

Kay started the project a week ago and already has 100 contributors signed up, from authors such as Lee Child, Jacqueline Wilson, EL James and Jilly Cooper to presenters including Graham Norton, Emily Maitliss and Peter Kay, actors from Dawn French to Emilia Clarke and Joanna Lumley, and sportspeople including Peter Crouch and Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Each is writing a personal story about how the NHS was there for them and how it changed their lives, with all profits from the book to go to NHS Charities Together and the Lullaby Trust, which supports parents bereaved of babies and young children.

“Every single one of us owes so much to the NHS. It is our single greatest achievement as a nation, always there for us, and never more so than now,” said Kay, a former junior doctor turned comedian and writer. “Since this project was conceived barely a week ago, I have been blown away by the number of people who have been in touch to share their amazing stories. I hope that the book, and the money it raises for charity, will in some way manage to say thank you to the heroes who are putting our lives before their own every day.”

Bill Bryson, Nick Hornby, Ian Rankin and Martin Freeman will also be among the letter writers, as will Caitlin Moran, Peter Capaldi and Zoe Ball. The book will be published on 9 July.

Publisher Orion’s Anna Valentine said the stories told were “by turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned”.

Orion’s parent company, Hachette UK, recently began offering free ebooks to NHS workers, after author Mari Hannah was contacted by a frontline NHS worker telling her that her books were keeping her spirits up.

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Sir Paul McCartney and Dame Emma Thompson write 'love letters' to NHS
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17 April 2020


Sir Paul McCartney and Dame Emma Thompson will tell their NHS stories

"Love letters" to the NHS, written by stars including Sir Paul McCartney and Dame Emma Thompson, are to appear in a new charity book.

Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, will also feature contributions by Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais.

The book, which will raise funds for NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust, has been curated by This Is Going To Hurt author Adam Kay.

"Every single one of us owes so much to the NHS," he said.

"It is our single greatest achievement as a nation, always there for us and never more so than now."

Kay noted how the project was "conceived barely a week ago," and how he's been "blown away" by the number of high-profile people willing to volunteer their stories, like Sir Michael Palin, Dawn French and Graham Norton, as well as Emilia Clarke and Louis Theroux.

"I hope that the book, and the money it raises for charity, will in some way manage to say thank you to the heroes who are putting our lives before their own every day."

Sirs Trevor McDonald and David Jason; Joanna Lumley and Peter Kay have also added to the collection of tales, which will be released on 9 July.

A minimum of £3.00 from the sale of each book will be paid to NHS Charities Together and £0.15 will be paid to The Lullaby Trust.

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781398701182
Number of pages: 352
Dimensions: 222 x 138 mm

Paul McCartney praises “very special” Billie Eilish, but he “wouldn’t swap” recording in Abbey Road for a bedroom

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Paul McCartney praises “very special” Billie Eilish, but he “wouldn’t swap” recording in Abbey Road for a bedroom
"For them, it's brilliant. And what they produce from the bedroom is really very special."
Nick Reilly

April 16 2020

Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish (Picture: Getty)

Paul McCartney has opened up on his love of Billie Eilish‘s music, after the two got in contact via FaceTime.

The Beatles icon revealed in a new interview with Howard Stern that he was put in touch with Eilish after his daughter, esteemed designer Stella, created the singer’s stage wears for Glastonbury.

“Stella FaceTimed me with Billie and her family because she wore some of Stella’s clothes on Glastonbury when she played it, so they were there. It was great to sort of chat with them and stuff,” he explained.

When asked if he envies the ability of Eilish and brother Finneas’ ability to create their music from their own bedroom, McCartney said “For them, it’s brilliant. And what they produce from the bedroom is really very special.”

But he admitted that the same recording scenario would not have worked for the Beatles.

“The memories of going into EMI studios and to Abbey Road and the thrill of being some kid who’d been in his bedroom long enough, thank you very much, and getting out to this beautiful studio and being on almost kind of office hours — two songs in the morning, lunch, two songs in the afternoon, good night. Four songs a day we were banging them out, it was so exciting… I wouldn’t swap that for anything.”

In the same interview, McCartney called for Chinese wet markets to be banned, stating his belief that they are to blame for the current coronavirus pandemic.

McCartney said: “I really hope that this will mean the Chinese government says, ‘OK guys, we have really got to get super hygienic around here.’ Let’s face it, it is a little bit medieval eating bats.”

McCartney also spoke about the cancellation of Glastonbury 2020 due to the pandemic, which he was set to headline, saying: “What’s disappointing for me is the people who bought tickets, who were looking forward to this and thinking here’s something groovy to do in the summer, and suddenly the plug is pulled, and we can’t come around and play for them.

“It’s sad for us, too – we were looking forward to that.”

Earlier this month (April 3), McCartney was one of several high-profile musicians, including Elton John and Stormzy, to contribute to a video thanking NHS workers for their work during the coronavirus crisis.

Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for Hey Jude sell for £730,000

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Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for Hey Jude sell for £730,000 as collectors get caught up in bidding war
º The partial lyrics have notations written by Paul McCartney such as 'break'
º They were used to help him and John Lennon with timing during recording
º Also sold were the filming notes for the video of Hello Goodbye! for £67,000
By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11 April 2020

Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for the Beatles song Hey Jude have sold for a staggering £730,000 ($910,000) - five times their estimate.

The sheet of paper contains the partial lyrics for Hey Jude that McCartney wrote for John Lennon's young son Julian.

The lines in the lyrics are numbered one to four with notations such as the word 'break'.

Paul McCartney's hand written partial lyrics for the recording of Hey Jude have sold for a staggering £730,000


It was sold with a photo taken inside the studios at the time with the sheet of paper clearly visible next to John Lennon

It is thought the notes helped either him or John Lennon with his timing when they recorded the classic song at Trident Studios in London in 1968.

McCartney later gifted the piece of paper to a studio engineer.

It was sold with a photo taken inside the studios at the time with the sheet of paper clearly visible next to John Lennon. 

The filming notes for the video of Hello Goodbye! in 1967 containing notes by McCartney fetched £67,000


A bass drumhead bearing the Beatles logo which was part of a back up drum kit for Ringo Starr for the band's first US tour in 1964 went for £160,000

The lyrics were consigned for sale by a private collector. They were expected to fetch £145,000 but sparked a bidding war when they went under the hammer with US based Julien's Auctions.

Also in the sale, a bass drumhead bearing the Beatles logo which was part of a back up drum kit for Ringo Starr for the band's first US tour in 1964 went for £160,000.

The filming notes for the video of Hello Goodbye! in 1967 containing notes by McCartney fetched £67,000.

 
Classical guitar used by McCartney (pictured) also featured in the auction of more than 250 Beatles lots

 
Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'BAGISM' drawing, featured in the couple's 1969 Bed In Peace documentary as part of their demonstration against the Vietnam War, sold for £75,000

McCartney, who directed the video, wrote how he wanted one frame to be a 'C..U J then R (you say yes)' - a close up of John and Ringo Starr.

The auction of more than 250 Beatles lots was due to be held at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York, but following the coronavirus outbreak it took place online.

Darren Julien, president of Julien's Auctions, said: 'The Hey Jude lyrics were done in the hand by Paul McCartney during recording.

'What makes them so incredible is that there are photographs and footage of him using the lyrics while recording which is extremely rare.'

 
Also sold was an original stage from the first Beatles performance at Lathom Hall in Liverpool on May 14 1960 which fetched £20,500

Among the other items sold at the auction were an original lacquer disc recording of Beatles album Get Back, believed to have been created by producer Glyn Johns, which sold for £26,000.

Also sold was an original stage from the first Beatles performance at Lathom Hall in Liverpool on May 14 1960. That fetched £20,500.

Artwork from Sir Paul, created while he was a student in Liverpool, sold for £22,500, more than 14 times the guide price.

And Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'BAGISM' drawing, featured in the couple's 1969 Bed In Peace documentary as part of their demonstration against the Vietnam War, sold for £75,000.