Paul McCartney records for BBC Radio 4 series Mastertapes

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Paul McCartney records for special edition of BBC Radio 4 series Mastertapes
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016


Get your tickets for a special recording session with Sir Paul at BBC Maida Vale Studios!

The radio series Mastertapes returns to BBC Radio 4 later in the year, and a special edition of Mastertapes with Paul McCartney at the BBC Maida Vale studios will be recorded on Wednesday 11 May. In this exclusive interview ahead of the release of a major retrospective collection, McCartney will talk to John Wilson about his music career and will answer questions from the audience.
A limited number of audience tickets will be available for 24 hours from today (Wednesday 27 April) at 12pm via the Mastertapes pages on the Radio 4 website.

The hour-long special edition of the programme will broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 10am on Saturday 28 May, and a version will be filmed for BBC iPlayer.

John Wilson says: “Mastertapes looks at the nuts and bolts of songwriting, and draws back the curtain on what can often be a private and sometimes lonely art. Having interviewed McCartney many times before, I know he offers great insight into that process. As the most successful songwriter of all time, and the man behind some of my favourite music, I couldn’t ask for a better guest – it’s going to be a very special session.”

In Mastertapes, musicians and artists join presenter John Wilson to discuss their career-defining albums. Usually broadcast over two consecutive days and recorded at BBC Maida Vale studios, each edition of Mastertapes involves an in-depth interview with the artist (for the 'A-side'), questions from the studio audience (for the 'B-side') and exclusive live performances of songs from the albums in question.

The Mastertapes website, which includes additional and exclusive live performances of all the artists featured on the programme (as well as photographs and videos from the sessions), is rapidly becoming a valuable musical resource. It is also the place from which all the previous editions of the series can be downloaded: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b021mjc4. Former Mastertapes guests include Noel Gallagher, Robbie Williams, Natalie Merchant, Manic Street Preachers, Sinead O’Connor, Paul Weller, Corinne Bailey Rae and Rufus Wainwright.






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In a special edition of Mastertapes Paul McCartney talks to John Wilson about some of the favourite songs he has written.

As he embarks on a new globe-trotting tour and on the eve of the release of a personally curated collection of his recordings since leaving the Beatles, Paul McCartney takes time out to discuss with John Wilson how some of these songs came about.

Ever since he wrote his first song at the age of 14, Paul McCartney has developed into one of the most successful songwriters and performers of all time. With the Beatles, he changed the world of music and he has continued to push boundaries as a solo artist, with Wings and as a solo artist again. A two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a 21-time Grammy Award winner, Paul McCartney has performed in the White House on two occasions in 2010 (President Obama joked that he was becoming a regular).

This will be a unique opportunity to see and hear Paul McCartney as he returns to a venue that he has performed at even more times than the White House. Not only can you hear how he conceived and developed some of his favourite songs but he will also be answering questions from the audience.

The programme will broadcast as a one-hour special on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 28 May.

Important note: There will be a chance to ask Paul McCartney questions during his interview with John Wilson. 

Please note that your contact details will be shared with the production team prior to the recording. This is in order to send details and gather audience questions for the artist ahead of recording.

Tickets will be allocated by random draw.

You can register at any time until Thursday 28 April at 12 noon.

You can apply for a maximum of two tickets.

Good luck!


All information is correct at time of publication.

Unseen footage of The Beatles during 1965 Australian tour is unveiled

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Unseen Beatles footage released
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PUBLISHED: 26 April 2016

Never-before-seen footage of The Beatles "mucking around" in a make-up studio ahead of a television performance, shot more than half a century ago, was released by Australia's national film and sound archive Tuesday.

The 49-second black-and-white silent film clip -- which the national archive described as "really rare" -- was shot with an 8mm camera belonging to Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane, who was working at Granada TV in Manchester, Britain, at that time.

The previously unreleased footage, from November 1, 1965, shows the four members of the legendary band having fun in front of the camera as their make-up is applied.


Former Australian dancer and make-up artist Dawn Swane, 83, holds a call sheet autographed for her by the Beatles in 1965

"I was in the make-up room. And so we were having some champagne," Swane, now 83, said in a statement released by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).

"And anyway, I don't know if it was John (Lennon) or if it was Ringo (Starr) but they took the camera off me and said, 'This is no way to use a camera', and they sort of jiggled it upside down and inside out a bit, and everybody was just mucking around.

"But that was great. I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were."

The clip, along with other home movies, including British actor Michael Caine in the make-up chair, was donated by Swane's daughter Melinda Doring to the national archive.

"We don't have anything as significantly rare in the collection in terms of a home movie," NFSA assistant film curator Tara Marynowsky told AFP.

"(To have) something so high-profile is just quite incredible to have, especially when our client Dawn Swane held on to it for quite some time. Years and years later, we get to uncover this and make that available to audiences... it's really, really rare actually."

Doring said she first saw the footage as a teenager, but came across it again four years ago and realised it was starting to have "vinegar syndrome", a chemical process which causes film to deteriorate.

"I knew there was stuff there that needed to be preserved, so I knew it was the right time to ring up the archive and get it stabilised and preserved before it would have been lost forever," Doring told AFP.

Swane has also kept the original call sheet for the television programme the performers were preparing for, "The Music of Lennon & McCartney", which has on it autographs from all four Beatles as well as legendary American composer Henry Mancini.






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Unseen footage of The Beatles 'mucking around' in a makeup studio during 1965 Australian tour is unveiled 50 years after it was captured
· Footage of The Beatles shot on November 1, 1965 has been released
· Australian dancer and makeup artist Dawn Swane captured it during tour
· Fab Four were preparing for TV special The Music of Lennon & McCartney
By RACHEL EDDIE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 26 April 2016

Never-before-seen footage of The Beatles messing around in a dressing room has been uncovered after it was shot more than 50 years ago by an Australian ballet dancer and makeup artist.
The 49-second silent clip shows the Fab Four getting their makeup done for television special The Music of Lennon & McCartney on November 1, 1965.
Shot by now 83-year-old Dawn Swane, the footage shows the band pulling faces and goofing around playfully for the camera while sitting in their makeup chairs.


Never-before-seen footage of The Beatles has been uncovered after it was shot more than 50 years ago by an Australian ballet dancer and makeup artist (Paul McCartney pictured getting ready in the makeup room at Granada Studios, November 1, 1965)


John Lennon having powder put on his face in the makeup room in video shot by Dawn Swane in 1965

'I was in the make-up room, and we were having some champagne ... I don't know if it was John or if it was Ringo, but they took the camera off me and said "this is no way to use a camera" and they sort of jiggled it upside down and inside out a bit, and everybody was just mucking around. But that was great.
'I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were,' Ms Swane said of the moment.

Ms Swane has also kept the original call sheet for the television special, which has on it autographs from all four Beatles as well as legendary American composer Henry Mancini.
The footage is part of a collection of film clips shot by Swane who, having sustained an injury that put a halt to her dancing career, worked as a make-up artist at Granada TV in Manchester, England.





'I was in the make-up room, and we were having some champagne ... everybody was just mucking around. But that was great. I mean they were a nice group of people. They really were,' Ms Swane said of the moment (Paul McCartney pictured)

Also included in the collection of Swane's home movies and video recordings, which has been donated to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSAA), is footage of a young Michael Caine on the set of TV drama The Other Man.
The collection was donated by Swane's daughter Melinda Doring and the Beatles footage is available to watch on the NFSAA's YouTube account.
Ms Swane also performed at Grace Kelly's royal wedding in Monte Carlo in 1956 and travelled across Europe until suffering a back injury and returning to Sydney in 1958 to work as a makeup artist.
She returned in the mid-60s and began working as a makeup artist at Granada TV in Manchester, Britain, where she filmed The Beatles preparing for the television special.


Ringo Starr pictured in the makeup room at Granada Studios in 1965 in film by Ms Swane, Australian dancer and makeup artist


John Lennon having powder put on his face for television special The Music of Lennon & McCartney in 1965


The Fab Four before an appearance on television in Manchester (clockwise from top left: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison)

'We don't have anything as significantly rare in the collection in terms of a home movie,' NFSA assistant film curator Tara Marynowsky told AFP.
'(To have) something so high-profile is just quite incredible to have, especially when our client Dawn Swane held on to it for quite some time. Years and years later, we get to uncover this and make that available to audiences... it's really, really rare actually.'
Ms Doring said she first saw the footage as a teenager, but came across it again four years ago and realised it was starting to have 'vinegar syndrome', a chemical process which causes film to deteriorate.
'I knew there was stuff there that needed to be preserved, so I knew it was the right time to ring up the archive and get it stabilised and preserved before it would have been lost forever,' Ms Doring told AFP.


Ms Swane has also kept the original call sheet for the television special, which has on it autographs from all four Beatles (Ms Swane pictured holding the signed call sheet)

PHILIP NORMAN tells The truth behind Sir Paul's success

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A four in a bed romp and the pregnancy that nearly ended Macca's career before it began (and how a girlfriend's mum used to brush his hairy legs to relieve his stress): The truth behind Sir Paul's success
By PHILIP NORMAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 25 April 2016

This week, the Mail is exclusively serialising Philip Norman’s jaw-dropping Paul McCartney biography, approved by the star.
On Saturday, he detailed the shocking extent of Heather Mills’ lies and money-grabbing.
Today, in our second extract, he reveals the star’s merry-go-round of girlfriends and groupies . . .


Paul McCartney, left, always knew the effect his melting brown eyes had on the opposite sex

Long past the heyday of The Beatles, Paul McCartney offered a lift one day to a young film-maker, telling him to throw a sackful of letters on the front seat into the back of the car.
‘Go ahead and read one,’ he told David Litchfield. ‘They’re all the same.’
Litchfield leafed through the letters with growing disbelief. Every single one was from a woman who claimed she’d slept with McCartney — and had subsequently given birth to his child. ‘Some of [the letters] are really impressive,’ McCartney told Litchfield. ‘They come with lawyers’ letters and exact details of when and where — and I start racking my brains and thinking to myself: “Maybe I did once have sex with her.”’

The year was 1983. The ex-Beatle had by then been happily married for 14 years — yet still the claims were pouring in.
Even the historical ones could prove troublesome. That very year, a woman called Erika Hubers had gone before a Berlin judge, claiming that McCartney had fathered her daughter, Bettina, during The Beatles’ visits to Hamburg in the early Sixties.
The former waitress wanted £1.75 million — but a blood test proved that he couldn’t be the father.


Dot Rhone, right, Paul's first real girlfriend, told him that she was expecting his baby in 1960 aged 16

Still unconvinced, Hubers alleged that McCartney must have used a stand-in for the test, and he was told to retake it. In the meantime, the judge ordered him to pay his supposed daughter £175 a month.
Again, the blood-test exonerated him. For Hubers herself, this meant financial ruin — until McCartney stepped in to settle all her legal costs.
Whether he’d ever slept with her or not, he’d long since lost count of all the women who’d flitted through his life. Since his late teens, sex had always been on offer.
Even after The Beatles’ early gigs at the Cavern in Liverpool, their roadie would bring in willing females along with fish-and-chip takeaways. Then from 1962, when the group started touring the world, no-strings sex effectively became part of room service.
At airports across America, four pre-paid high-class hookers would usually be part of their welcoming party. As thousands of fans surrounded their hotels, it proved a welcome distraction from their imprisonment.
Not that it ever needed to be a commercial transaction, especially not for the ‘cute’ Beatle. In any room McCartney entered, he knew he could have his pick of the most beautiful women.


Paul and Jane Asher, pictured, announced their engagement on Christmas Day 1967

During the early days of Beatle-mania, he often acted as a judge at bathing-beauty contests — whose winners might well find themselves receiving an extra ‘prize’, along with a crown and a bouquet of roses.
They were certainly not alone in fancying the left-handed bass guitarist with the doe-like eyes. To his cousin, Mike Robbins, McCartney once described a four-in-a-bed session in which he’d been the only male.
The Press pack who travelled with the group also knew quite a bit about his sexual activities, but none of them dared dish the dirt on the Fab Four. The same rule held good when ranks of young women started popping up with kiss-and-tell stories.
For these women, The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein had a practised routine. Knowing that the vast majority were merely after money, he had a policy of buying them off without even looking into the truth of their allegations.
One of them was Anita Cochrane, a hardcore Beatles fan who claimed to have had sex twice with Paul and then given birth to his son in February 1964. After contacting Epstein while she was pregnant, he’d initially offered her £2.50 per week maintenance, then upped it to £5.
When her lawyer threatened to call for blood-tests, the manager gave her a one-off payment of £5,000 — in exchange for signing a document promising ‘not to make any allegations . . . that Paul McCartney is the father of said child’. Anita duly signed.
In the Fifties, most boys of Paul McCartney’s generation didn’t learn about sex until long after puberty. No adult explained the mechanics to him: his father merely advised him to watch dogs ‘at it’ in the street.
To find out more, Paul secretly consulted Black’s Medical Dictionary, which his mother had used in her work as a midwife, poring over stark illustrations of the female anatomy.


Paul was also involved with British actress Jane Asher, pictured, until he started taking LSD

Since kindergarten, he’d been aware of the effect his melting brown eyes had on the opposite sex. By the age of 13, he was attracting girls by the flock: his former primary school classmate, Bernice Stenson, had a crush on him, as did most of her friends. ‘He had this angelic-type face, and we’d see it peering out from the top deck of the 86 bus as he passed us,’ Bernice recalls. ‘We’d all jump up and down and wave and shout at him.’
At 15, he joined a Liverpool skiffle group called the Quarrymen. As they became better known, the Quarrymen began attracting female followers who’d wait for them after shows, always game for a snog or a grope or — on lucky nights — a ‘knee-trembler’ up against a wall.
There were never enough of these for John Lennon, whose sexual appetite seemed insatiable.
By the time George Harrison — a talented 14-year-old guitarist — joined the band, Paul had met his first serious girlfriend — Dot Rhone, who worked in a chemist’s shop.
She’d initially been more attracted by John’s rugged looks, but after discovering that he was already going steady with an art student called Cynthia Powell, she agreed to date Paul instead.
Dot and Cynthia were equally mild and malleable. Both girls, for instance, had to change their appearance in order to look more like John and Paul’s fantasy woman, Brigitte Bardot — which meant dyeing their hair blonde and wearing tight skirts and fishnet stockings. And when the Quarrymen played at a basement club called the Jacaranda, which didn’t have microphones, Dot and Cynthia would sit in front of them all night, holding up broom-poles with hand-mics tied to them.
Early in 1960 — when Dot was 16 and Paul 17 — she told him she was expecting his baby.
As they were both little more than children themselves, there was a meeting between Dot’s mother Jessie and Paul’s father Jim about what should be done.
Mrs Rhone favoured giving the baby up for adoption, saying her daughter was ‘too young to push a pram’. But Jim threw his arms around Dot and told her he’d be proud to see her pushing his grandchild in one.
It was settled that the couple would have a quiet wedding, then live with Paul’s widowed father. The implications were clear: with a wife and baby to support, Paul would have to leave school and find a ‘proper’ job. Three months into her pregnancy, however, Dot had a miscarriage. Paul rushed to her bedside with flowers and tried to conceal his relief.
When the group — now renamed The Beatles — landed a club gig in Hamburg, Dot and Cynthia wrote their boyfriends long letters several times a week, enclosing snapshots to show that they were keeping up the required Bardot look.


Paul McCartney had his first sexual experience with a prostitute in Germany which he found unnerving

In Germany, meanwhile, Paul was having his first sexual experience with a prostitute, which he found thoroughly unnerving. ‘[She was] a shortish, dark-haired girl . . . I think she was a stripteaser,’ he recalled later. ‘I remember feeling very intimidated in bed with her . . . I spent the whole night not doing an awful lot but trying to work up to it.’
The Beatles shared a room, so when 17-year-old George lost his virginity, Paul and John were in bed a few feet away: they cheered and clapped when he’d finished.
Once, George recalled, John had found Paul in bed with ‘a chick’. While his bandmate was busy, John ‘went and got a pair of scissors and cut all her clothes in pieces, then wrecked the wardrobe’.
Despite all this, Paul gave Dot a ring after they’d been dating for a year, and she considered herself engaged. But the relationship eventually fizzled out, and the faithful Dot was supplanted by 17-year-old Iris Caldwell, a trapeze artist who went on to work as a dancer in pantomimes and summer variety shows. Her brother Rory also played in a Liverpool band, and their home became one of John and Paul’s favourite haunts.
‘We’d go to the cinema every Tuesday: Paul would pay one week, I’d pay the next,’ recalls Iris, who had previously dated George. ‘Or we’d go to the Empire if a big name was on — always sitting in the cheap seats.
‘Paul liked what I thought were quite square entertainers, like Joe “Mr Piano” Henderson. He knew all of Joe’s numbers and sang along with them, which I found a bit embarrassing.’
Sadly for Iris, he never wrote a song about her in the two years they were together — because he said that the only thing that rhymed with Iris was ‘virus’.
Paul by now had a car — one of the new Ford Classics in a colour called Goodwood Green. ‘Wherever we went, he always had to be the centre of attention,’ Iris says. It irritated her that he had picked up John’s habit of doing Quasimodo impressions, pretending to have a grotesquely humped back. ‘One night, we’d gone to this coffee bar in Birkenhead,’ she says. ‘Paul’s showing-off got on my nerves so much that I picked up the sugar-bowl and emptied it over his head.




In 1967 while in America, Paul met with freelance photographer Linda Eastman, pictured right

‘We were always having rows and breaking up. And whenever we did, George would be round the next day, asking me to go out with him again.’
In the late evenings, they were often at her home, where Iris’s mum Vi provided not only non-stop food and hot drinks but also leg-grooming for Paul.
‘He’s quite hairy, and having his legs combed seemed to relax him,’ says Iris. ‘He’d say, “Oo, Vi, give me legs a comb” and roll up his trouser-leg, and Mum would get a comb and do it.
‘She loved him but she wasn’t afraid to speak her mind about the way he used his good looks and charm to get away with things — like always smoking other people’s cigarettes instead of buying his own.
‘I remember her saying to him once, “You’ve got no heart, Paul.”’
By 1962, when The Beatles landed their first contract with Parlophone Records, Iris’s days as Paul’s girlfriend were numbered — not least because her cabaret engagements and his touring commitments meant they rarely saw each other.
In the end, it was Iris who took the initiative in early 1963 and dumped him. ‘It was on the day before my 19th birthday. My mum said I should have waited in case he’d got me a nice present.’
He didn’t forget her; nor did he forget her mother’s playful jibe that he had ‘no heart.’ Two years later, as The Beatles prepared to be filmed in Blackpool, he phoned Iris. ‘Paul told me: “Watch Blackpool Night Out, and tell me if I’ve still got no heart . . .” ’ she recalls. ‘It was the first time he ever sang Yesterday on television.’


Paul and Linda got married in Marylebone registry office in 1969, two years after meeting

Despite being bruised by the break-up, however, Paul soon found a new diversion: the teenage actress Jane Asher. They’d met when she interviewed The Beatles for the BBC backstage at the Royal Albert Hall. At that stage, it was George who’d seemed likeliest to score.
But at a party later, it was Paul who took Jane to a bedroom for an earnest chat about Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, which he’d studied at school. He then saw her to the front door of her six-floor Georgian home in Wimpole Street central London. Jane and her middle-class family opened up a new world to him. Her father, Richard Asher, was a distinguished doctor and her mother a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. And both made Paul welcome — to the point that, later that year, he moved into their home.
There, he happily slept in a former maid’s room, with space only for a narrow single bed and a heavy wooden wardrobe. Mrs Asher fed him and did his laundry.
It wasn’t till 1966 that Paul and Jane moved into a house he’d bought in St John’s Wood.
The most poised and sophisticated of his girlfriends, she wasn’t prepared to let her entire life revolve around him. So she’d sometimes be away for months at a time, working for the Bristol Old Vic theatre company.
Immediately, Paul would revert to his bachelor life. Sitting in clubs, he’d watch beautiful young women turn away from their partners on the dance-floor as soon as they realised who he was. Often, they’d mime a striptease in front of him. He could always tell in advance which one he’d be taking home.
On 17 May, 1967, while Jane was acting in America, he went to the Bag O’Nails club — a well-known pop hang-out — where he was introduced to Linda Eastman, a 25-year-old freelance photographer from New York.


A badly dressed woman with uncombed blonde hair and potent sex appeal, she made a lasting impression.
The relationship with Jane was starting to fray. With more than a touch of traditional Northern male chauvinism, Paul had begun to resent that she had a flourishing career of her own.
Nor did it help that they had different sets of friends, or that Jane was dismayed — on her return from America — to find that he was now taking LSD.
His fleeting liaisons with other women were less of an issue. Jane had always been aware that he regarded them as only one step on from signing an autograph.
Hoping for the best, the couple announced their engagement on Christmas Day 1967. But it was the beginning of the end, and they started leading increasingly separate lives.
What Jane didn’t know was that for almost the whole time they’d been living together as a couple, Paul had been conducting a parallel affair with Maggie McGivern — who worked as a nanny for the singer Marianne Faithfull. She even spent the occasional night at his home — where his housekeeper, who was fiercely loyal to Jane, treated Maggie with barely restrained hostility.
Just four months after proposing to Jane, Paul then launched himself into yet another secret affair — this time with Francie Schwartz, a 24-year-old New Yorker in The Beatles’ Press team.
On July 20, Jane Asher announced on a chat show that her five-year relationship with Paul was over. ‘I haven’t broken it off but it’s broken off, finished,’ she said.
‘I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other and love each other . . . but it hasn’t worked out. Perhaps we’ll be childhood sweethearts and meet again and get married when we’re about 70.’
Not long afterwards, Jane paid a surprise return visit to the home she’d shared with Paul. The fans who hung around outside the front gate rang Paul’s entryphone to warn him.
Unfortunately, he didn’t believe them — and Jane found him in bed with Francie Schwartz.
Eventually, on March 12, 1969, with minimum fanfare, McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office. She was four months’ pregnant with daughter Mary.
Against all predictions, he’d remain faithful to her until her death in 1998.

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UPDATED: Second Cleveland Date Added to Paul's 'One On One' Tour

UPDATED - 25th April 2016:

Due to overwhelming demand, Paul has confirmed he will add a second and final show to his Cleveland, OH engagement at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday, August 18th.

Get tickets - HERE!

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UPDATED:

Fans registered with PaulMcCartney.com as of 9am (local / 2pm BST) today - Tuesday 19th April - are eligible to purchase pre-sale tickets today from 10am (local / 3pm BST). The ticket links are below:

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PAUL McCARTNEY

'ONE ON ONE' 

FIRST CLEVELAND CONCERT SINCE 2002

August 17 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena

Paul McCartney has confirmed his first Cleveland concert appearance since 2002: On Wednesday, August 17th Paul’s brand new 'One On One' tour will make a stop at Quicken Loans Arena.

PRE-SALE DETAILS:
Fans registered with PaulMcCartney.com by 9am (local / 2pm BST) on Tuesday 19th April will be eligible to purchase pre-sale tickets for Paul's Cleveland concert through the website at 10am (local / 3pm BST) on the same day (Tuesday 19th April).

Register with PaulMcCartney.com by clicking HERE!

As with the launch of every new Paul McCartney tour, 'One On One' promises to unveil a dazzling re-designed set, dozens of classics from the most beloved catalog in popular music, spanning Paul's entire career--as a solo artist, member of Wings and of course as a Beatle—and no shortage of surprises.

'One On One' is the first new Paul McCartney tour since the juggernaut that was 'Out There' came to its stunning conclusion on October 22, 2015 with Paul’s first ever concert in Buffalo, NY. 'Out There’s finale capped off an incredible 2015, in which the tour played 27 shows in 22 cities throughout the world, with highlights including Paul’s historic debut in South Korea—where the crowd at Seoul Olympic Stadium’s refusal to stop singing the refrain to 'Hey Jude' literally forced Paul to reprise the song in the first encore, playing that signature bassline live for the first time—three nights at the Tokyo Dome and one at Budokan, a sold out stand at Paris’ majestic Stade de France, more than a dozen packed arena shows across the U.S., UK and Europe, and triumphant headlines at festivals such as Firefly, Roskilde, and Lollapalooza in Chicago—the latter a tour de force performance for a 100,000-strong crowd featuring a guest appearance from Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard on 'Get Back.'

The Paul McCartney live experience is everything any music lover could ever want from a rock show—and so much more: Nearly three hours worth of the greatest moments from the last 50 years of music, dozens of songs that have formed the soundtracks of our lives. Paul and his band have played an unparalleled range of venues and locations: outside the Coliseum in Rome, Moscow's Red Square, Buckingham Palace, The White House, a free show in Mexico for over 400,000 people, the last ever show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park where The Beatles played their final concert 1966, and even one performance broadcast live into Space! Featuring Paul's band of the last 10+ years – Paul "Wix" Wickens (keyboards), Brian Ray (bass/guitar), Rusty Anderson (guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (drums) – the show is never anything short of life-changing.

The 'One On One' Tour will debut a brand new production, as always utilizing state of the art audio and video technology and to ensure an unforgettable experience from every seat in the house. Employing massive screens, lasers, fireworks and, of course, a staggering selection of the best songs ever written or performed, every Paul McCartney show promises a once in a lifetime evening that transcends and elevates the potential of live music.

Tickets for the Cleveland date will be on sale Monday, April 25 at 10am EST via, theQarena.com, Quicken Loans Arena Box Office, by-phone at 888-894-9424 or at any Northern Ohio Discount Drug Mart.

American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Wednesday, April 20 at 10am EST through Sunday, April 24 at 10pm EST. 

Keep checking PaulMcCartney.com for further announcements.

PAUL McCARTNEY
ONE ON ONE
North American Dates 2016—New Date in BOLD

April 13 - Fresno, CA - SaveMart Arena
April 15 - Portland, OR - Moda Center
April 17 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 19 & 20 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
April 30 - Little Rock, AR - Verizon Arena
May 2 - Sioux Falls, SD - Denny Sanford Premier Center
May 4 & 5 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
July 8 - Milwaukee, WI - SummerFest
July 10 - Cincinnati, OH - US Bank Arena
July 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Park
July 19 - Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium
July 21- Hamilton, ONT - FirstOntario Centre
August 7 - East Rutherford, NJ - MetLife Stadium
August 13 - St. Louis, MO - Busch Stadium
August 17 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena

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Paul McCartney adds second Cleveland concert; tickets on sale now

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FRESNO, CA - APRIL 13: Paul McCartney performs on Opening Night of the One On One Tour at Save Mart Center on April 13, 2016 in Fresno, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images)

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CLEVELAND -- One show just isn’t enough.

Paul McCartney has added a second concert when his tour rocks Cleveland this summer.

His two shows will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 17 and Thursday, Aug. 18 at 8 p.m.

Tickets for the Aug. 18 show are now on sale. Prices range from $59.50 to $253.

McCartney's "One On One" tour boasts "massive screens, lasers, fireworks" and a "staggering selection of the best songs ever written or performed" within a three-hour performance.

The Beatles icon has not performed in Cleveland since 2002. He did, however, briefly take the Public Hall stage at the 2015 induction ceremony to honor Ringo Starr as he joined rock's hallowed halls as a solo artist.

McCartney was inducted as an individual performer in 1999, but first landed in the Rock Hall with the Beatles in 1988.

He is now 73 years old.

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The Beatles to be removed from Rock Band

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The Beatles to be removed from Rock Band
Say Hello Goodbye to a whole bunch of classic tunes.
Text: Jonas Mäki
Published the 22nd of Apr 2016 



Harmonix's licence to use music from The Beatles in Rock Band is about to expire, and on their blog the studio says that they won't renew it. That means that starting May 5, all DLC songs will be removed from the store. If you've purchased the songs before that, you will be able to use them in the future.







Music by The Beatles was originally added in The Beatles: Rock Band, which launched back in 2009. If you're a fan and want to continue to play their biggest hits (and let's face it, there was a few), now would be a good time to make sure you can do that in the future as well.

Philip Norman provides insight into the greed and lies of Heather Mills

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Why DID Paul McCartney marry such a lying money grabber? Launching an unmissable series from a top biographer, a jaw-dropping insight into the greed and lies of Heather Mills
· He knew about Heather’s background as set out in her autobiography
· According to her, she had been sexually abused and left home at 13
· After that, she had worked at a funfair and slept in a cardboard box
· Why did he fall for a woman who even then was hard to take at face value?
· Philip Norman opens the first extract from Paul McCartney: The Biography
By PHILIP NORMAN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
23 April 2016

On October 17, 2006, fax machines at the Press Association office in London suddenly began to spew out nine devastating pages of intimate revelations about Sir Paul McCartney and his estranged second wife, Heather Mills.
The pages were from a document apparently compiled by Heather’s solicitors, Mishcon de Reya, and contained her response to McCartney’s brief, unspecific allegations in his petition for a quickie ‘no blame’ divorce.
Although she denied leaking them — the document was also faxed to the press office at London’s Royal Courts of Justice and to the UK offices of Bloomberg news agency — the revelations made it clear that as far as Heather was concerned there was plenty of blaming to do.


McCartney knew about Heather’s colourful background — as set down in her autobiography. According to her, she had been sexually abused and ran away from home at 13. After that, she had worked at a funfair and slept in a cardboard box among the tramps at Waterloo station, writes Philip Norman



Far from being a cosy family man, McCartney was a controlling and selfish domestic tyrant, the document alleged, who had even subjected Heather to physical violence.
That April, for instance, while she was recovering from an operation and still in a wheelchair, he’d poured ‘the balance of a bottle of red wine’ over her head and thrown the residue from his glass at her.
After that, she claimed, he’d grabbed her own glass so violently it snapped, and ‘lunged’ at her with the broken stem.
As she bled profusely, she claimed, he shouted at her to apologise for ‘winding him up’.
McCartney fans were stunned. None of this tallied with their image of the most laid-back and uxorious of the Beatles, who greeted the public with a cheery thumbs-up.
From McCartney, there was only a promise that he’d be countering these allegations ‘vigorously and appropriately’ in court. The torch had been lit for one of the most inflammatory divorce cases in history.

Despite having lost part of her left leg in an accident, 31-year-old Heather Mills radiated sexual confidence. As she liked to boast, every single man she met wanted to marry her within a week.
Certainly no one could have guessed she had a disability when she sprinted on stage at the Pride of Britain Awards in May 1999.
As she delivered an impassioned speech about the plight of amputees, she looked spectacular in a tight red top and white trousers that accentuated her curvaceous figure.
McCartney, who was waiting to deliver an award in honour of his late wife Linda, was captivated. Contrary to reports, however, he didn’t ask to be introduced to Heather — not then.
It was 13 months to the day since Linda had died of breast cancer, and he’d been finding it hard to adjust. Often he’d instinctively turn round to ask her something, then realise afresh that she wasn’t there.
He was also racked with guilt — to the point of having professional counselling — because he hadn’t told Linda what a short time she had left to live.
Heather, for her part, was unaware that she’d already made a powerful impression on the world’s most eligible bachelor. The day after the ceremony, she flew to Cambodia to make a documentary on landmines with British director Chris Terrill.
True to her habitual boast, Terrill was quickly captivated — though it took him ten days, not seven, to propose. Her reply was the single word: ‘When?’
On their return, Paul McCartney invited Heather to his offices and then asked her out to dinner. According to her, they also made a casual arrangement to meet up again in America.


Why did McCartney — normally so shrewd and cautious — fall for a woman who even then was hard to take at face value?

Heather went ahead with her wedding plans. But a week before her planned marriage in August, she told her fiance she was going out to meet her sister. Terrill never saw her again.
Instead, Heather revealed later, she and her sister Fiona jetted off to meet McCartney in Long Island. The affair began in earnest that autumn, with regular trysts at a cottage he owned in Rye near the Sussex coast and at a luxurious hotel suite in London.
By then, he knew about Heather’s colourful background — as set down in her autobiography.
According to her, she had been sexually abused and ran away from home at 13. After that, she had worked at a funfair and slept in a cardboard box among the tramps at Waterloo station.
At 18, she’d had a short-lived marriage to a businessman who encouraged her to take up modelling. But it was losing her leg — after being run down by a police motorcyclist — that marked a radical change in her fortunes.
Claiming to be a £200,000-a-year former catwalk model, she sold her life story to a tabloid and — with accompanying TV cameras — took 4,500 artificial limbs to Croatia for victims of landmines.
Soon, ever more impressive tales were swirling around: that her life was about to be turned into a Hollywood film; that she could look forward to becoming Secretary of State for Health; that she was in the running for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Why did McCartney — normally so shrewd and cautious — fall for a woman who even then was hard to take at face value?
One theory was that after his long first marriage, Paul was in a particularly vulnerable state.
And there was another reason. When his old Liverpool friend Joe Flannery asked what had drawn him to Heather, he put it very simply: ‘I looked at her leg and went “A-ah.”’
Some warned him to be wary, but he was deaf to all advice.
Mary, the eldest of his children by Linda, feared he was falling victim to a ruthless opportunist. Only Stella, already a successful fashion designer, felt they should give the newcomer a chance.
By early 2000, newspapers were reporting that Heather’s modelling career had involved downmarket lingerie catalogues and topless glamour poses, and that she’d also worked as a ‘party girl’ for Middle Eastern businessmen.
Fearing that an exposé was imminent, Heather pre-empted it by telling Paul she was about to be falsely labelled ‘a high-class hooker’. According to her, he reassured her that this wouldn’t make the slightest difference to their relationship.
Unfortunately, people also began popping up to contradict the harrowing story she’d told in her autobiography. Her father, for instance, vehemently denied claims that he’d brutalised her.
And Alfie Karmal, to whom Heather had briefly been married, revealed: ‘She told me so many fibs that if she’d said it was raining, I would have checked.’
Heather, meanwhile, was revelling in her new status as an international celebrity. U.S. star presenter Barbara Walters flew to conduct an interview with her, in which she bracketed the former topless model with Princess Diana.
The broadcast began with a video showing Heather doing a sexy dance, at the end of which she kicked off her false leg.
In May 2001, McCartney loaned her £800,000 to buy a seafront property in Hove, then an additional £150,000 for renovations — all to be repaid in easy monthly instalments of £1,000.
Meanwhile, Heather was telling the Sunday Times that Tony Blair’s government wanted to give her a peerage; that all the main British political parties wanted her to stand as an MP; and that she had recently backed out of a meeting with former President Bill Clinton because she couldn’t be seen to endorse the Democratic Party. She also claimed that she was rated the No 1 public speaker in the UK.
Far from questioning any of this, McCartney proposed that July — dropping on one knee and placing a £15,000 ring on her finger.




Back in Britain, a newspaper investigation discovered that far from being a teenage runaway at 13, sleeping in a cardboard box, Heather had been attending school normally all along. McCartney and Mills are pictured at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in 2003

Paul’s children loyally maintained a facade of being happy about the match, though it momentarily cracked when Heather accompanied Paul to the launch of Stella’s first collection for the Chloe fashion house.
As Paul arrived, he greeted the cameras with the peace sign that he and Linda always used to make together — and Heather followed suit.
To Stella, it seemed that her mother’s place was being blatantly usurped. One of her friends later said: ‘She was so angry, she told her dad there was no way she was having Heather to the after-show party — so they both had to miss it.’
Pointedly, Stella didn’t offer to design Heather’s wedding dress when her father remarried shortly before his 60th birthday.
A friend of Paul’s later recalled him confiding, rather wistfully, that all he wanted was someone to be there every night when he came offstage and say: ‘You were wonderful, darling.’
On that score alone, McCartney could hardly have made a worse choice of marriage partner. As he wound up the final part of his American tour in late 2002, it was Heather, not her husband, who kept grabbing the headlines.
When stories emerged about the hostility of McCartney’s children, she flatly denied them. Why, she said, she got on so ‘brilliantly’ with Stella that the designer had recently put out a press release saying so. Yet no such press release had ever been issued.
McCartney had now given Heather an annual allowance of £360,000, a credit card on his account and jewellery worth £264,000.
On top of that, he altered his will in her favour and allowed her annual lump sums of £250,000 to donate to charity.
By February 2003, she was pregnant with their daughter, Beatrice, and accompanying him on a concert tour in Russia.
Members of his band were amazed to see McCartney paying close attention when Heather gave him critical notes on his performance.
Back in Britain, a newspaper investigation discovered that far from being a teenage runaway at 13, sleeping in a cardboard box, Heather had been attending school normally all along.


Despite having lost part of her left leg in an accident, 31-year-old Heather Mills radiated sexual confidence. As she liked to boast, every single man she met wanted to marry her within a week

As questions mounted, she still seemed immune: she was even invited to appear alongside heavyweight politicians on BBC1’s prestigious Question Time.
And McCartney not only gave her an extra £500,000 to buy an office — a luxurious riverside flat in West London — but took out a mortgage to buy her sister and cousin properties worth £614,000.
In April 2006, Heather needed ‘revision surgery’ on the stump of her left leg. Her sudden absence from McCartney’s side in public provoked rumours that the marriage was in trouble.
When she reappeared, however, she laughed and said: ‘Paul and I are together 100 per cent.’ A week later, the McCartneys announced that they were separating. They had been married for just four years.
There appeared to be no hard feelings: they issued a statement claiming that ‘our parting is an amicable one and both of us still care about each other very much’.
Shortly afterwards, the Sun published pictures from a 1988 German sex manual, The Joys Of Love, showing an oil-slicked Heather having simulated intercourse with a man. Online, there were explicit photos that left nothing to the imagination.
The News of the World followed this up with ‘Heather the £5K Hooker’, alleging that she had been a prostitute in the Eighties. Heather angrily declared that she would be suing — but never did.
Soon she was dominating headlines again with details from the mysteriously leaked fax. McCartney, she alleged, had continued to ‘use illegal drugs’ and ‘consume alcohol to excess’ after their marriage.
The worst allegations painted him as a wife-beater.
In late 2002, only four months after their wedding, he had apparently grabbed her by the neck and pushed her over a coffee table. Another time, he allegedly ‘became very angry, yelled at her, grabbed her neck and began choking her’.
According to the document, he’d also tried to stop her breast-feeding Beatrice, apparently telling Heather: ‘They are my breasts’ and, ‘I don’t want a mouthful of breast milk.’
The looming divorce was soon being compared to that of Prince Charles and Diana, particularly as Heather had often seemed to cast herself in the princess’s image.
Even the opposing solicitors were the same: McCartney would be represented by Fiona Shackleton, who had acted for Charles; and Heather by Anthony Julius, who had secured Diana’s £17 million settlement.
There seemed every chance that Heather would also become a stupendously rich divorcee, as she had never signed a pre-nuptial contract. Boldly, she asked for £50 million, rejecting McCartney’s offer of around £20 million.
That October, she launched a bizarre public attack on Stella McCartney, with whom, she said, she had ‘tried and tried’ to form a good relationship.
‘Every week [Stella] tried to break up our marriage,’ she went on. ‘She was so jealous. She wasn’t interested in her dad’s happiness. I can’t protect her any longer. She’s done some evil, evil things.’
The truth, she raged, was that Stella was afraid the divorce would eat into her inheritance, and that her father’s new wife would get ‘all the planes and the diamonds’.
Why was she so down on Stella? To Heather’s chagrin, her stepdaughter had given her a discount of only 10 per cent on her designer clothes. She had also refused to provide goody-bags for one of Heather’s charity fundraisers.
The divorce of the decade was now descending inexorably into a farce.
When the hearing began on February 11, 2008, the first surprise was that Heather had sacked her lawyer for failing to negotiate the settlement she wanted, and would be representing herself.
Her claim against McCartney had now swelled to around £125 million, nearly three times as much as the largest divorce settlement in British legal history.
So how did that break down? Well, ‘reasonable needs’ for herself and her daughter Beatrice, she estimated, would add up to £3.25 million a year.
This included £499,000 for holidays, £125,000 for clothes, £30,000 for ‘equestrian activities’ (although she no longer rode), £39,000 for wine (she didn’t drink), £43,000 for a driver, £627,000 for charitable donations, £73,000 for business staff and £39,000 for helicopter flights. In addition, she wanted security costing £542,000 annually.


Paul McCartney: The Biography, by Philip Norman, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25. © Philip Norman 2016. To buy a copy for £20, visit mailbookshop.co.uk or call 0844 571 0640. Offer until April 30, p&p free on orders over £12. McCartney and Mills are pictured here shortly after their engagement in 2001

As well as her two existing homes in Hove and Peans Wood, East Sussex, she further laid claim to McCartney’s houses in Long Island and Beverly Hills and asked for between £8 million and £12 million to buy a London home, £3 million to buy one in New York and between £500,000 and £750,000 to buy an office in Brighton, plus title to the houses Paul had already provided for her sister and cousin.
In all, that would give her seven fully staffed properties with full-time housekeepers, costing £645,000 annually.
She also wanted the court to come up with a ‘significant’ figure to compensate her for his allegedly abusive conduct, her loss of earnings during their marriage and her ‘contributions’ to McCartney’s career.

Wearing a pinstriped trouser-suit and carrying a large folder labelled ‘Fan Mail’, Heather entered the witness box.
Her own work had made her almost McCartney’s equal as a celebrity, she proclaimed. Furthermore, she had been independently wealthy before they met, with between £2 million and £3 million in the bank — but the marriage had all but put paid to her career.
Bank statements, of course, might have proved this. But she couldn’t produce any, claiming that as much as 90 per cent of her vast earnings had gone directly to charity. Yet there were no effusive letters of gratitude to prove this, either.
In November 2005, the court was told, she had emailed McCartney’s financial director, Paul Winn, about the West London flat the Beatle had bought her, asking for £480,000 to be paid into her account ‘to clear the amount outstanding on the mortgage’.
Winn refused to do so without proof that the mortgage existed. And, now, under cross-examination, Heather had to admit there had never been a mortgage; she must have got into a muddle, she said.
It was, said McCartney’s lawyer, nothing but ‘a fraudulent attempt’ to extract money.
At the end of the hearing, Mr Justice Bennett praised Sir Paul for expressing himself ‘moderately, though at times with justifiable irritation’.
The same could not be said of Heather. ‘Much of her evidence... was not just inconsistent and inaccurate but also less than candid,’ said the judge. ‘Overall, she was a less than impressive witness.’
Her claim that she had been worth up to £3 million when she met McCartney was ‘wholly exaggerated’. In fact, her 1999 tax return revealed that she had earned a total of £48,000.
And far from ‘losing business opportunities’ after meeting him, her income had substantially increased.
The judge’s harshest words concerned her email requesting £480,000 to ‘clear the mortgage’ on an unmortgaged flat. Heather’s explanation, he said, had ‘a hollow ring’ and the episode was ‘distinctly distasteful’ and damaging to her credibility.
In the end, he awarded her £16.5 million. Taking her two existing homes into account, she would have assets of around £23.4 million — or more than £700 for every hour that she had spent with McCartney.
As proceedings ended, a furious Heather dramatically seized one of the courtroom’s water jugs and tipped it over the head of McCartney’s lawyer Fiona Shackleton.
Outside the court, she claimed to all and sundry that the judge’s mind had been made up in advance and Shackleton had handled the case ‘in the worst manner you could ever imagine’.
A year later, after Heather had receded to the margins of celebrity, McCartney was asked if the marriage had been the worst mistake of his life.
It would have to be ‘a prime contender’, he replied, ‘but I tend to look at the positive side, which is that I got a beautiful daughter out of it.’
But Heather, who had now taken up competitive skiing, had to have the last word.
Last year, she popped up on Irish television to accuse Paul McCartney of struggling to stay relevant — because he wasn’t nearly as famous as she was.
‘Most of the time,’ she said, ‘I have people coming up to me in the street and going “Oh my God, you’re a ski racer” or “You help the animals.” Half of them don’t even know who he is.’

Paul McCartney: The Biography, by Philip Norman, is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25. © Philip Norman 2016. To buy a copy for £20, visit mailbookshop.co.uk or call 0844 571 0640. Offer until April 30, p&p free on orders over £12.

THE WEDDING THAT ALMOST WASN'T

Even before they wed, it was clear the marriage would be a turbulent one.

During their engagement, Heather accompanied McCartney on a U.S. tour. One of his concerts was in Florida, where the couple checked into Miami’s Turnberry Isle hotel.

A security guard patrolling the gardens below their suite later claimed to have heard a fierce argument in which Paul shouted: ‘I don’t want to marry you! The wedding’s off! We’ll cancel it!’ He then appeared on the balcony and threw Heather’s engagement ring over the rail.

After a lengthy search of the garden by staff on all fours — in pouring rain — the ring was found under a bush. Paul, by then back in Britain, bought a first-class air ticket for the hotel manager to deliver it, and sent £1,500 to the finder.

Little credence was given to Heather’s claim that they had merely been ‘playing catch’ with the ring.