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McCartney Library, academic library of Geneva College, named for Clarence Edward Noble Macartney


801 Live

The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me".

Al Coury

It was Coury who persuaded McCartney to include the successful single "Helen Wheels" on the US version of Band On The Run (because it was last-minute, the lyrics to the song were not included on the lyric sheet).

Backseat

"The Back Seat of My Car", a 1971 single release from the Paul McCartney album Ram

Brendan McCartney

In his playing days, Brendan McCartney played in the Geelong Football League for the Newtown Football Club.

C'Mon People

The video for the single was directed by ex-10cc member Kevin Godley and shows McCartney at the piano singing the song while workmen speedily deconstruct it and re-build it around him.

Calico Skies

McCartney had been staying in Long Island when the category-three storm Hurricane Bob that made landfall had hit in August 1991.

Call Me Burroughs

McCartney was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to set up a studio and act as tape operator for him in an apartment Ringo Starr owned, but was not using, at 34 Montagu Place.

Ches McCartney

McCartney was taken with the book Robinson Crusoe, and carried a copy of it, along with a Bible, throughout his travels—the only two books he carried.

Etta Scollo

Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to the recording of the Paul McCartney song Oh! Darling, which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics in 1988.

Fireman Radio

The commercial-free Fireman Radio was launched in celebration of McCartney's new album, Electric Arguments, and featured music from the records of McCartney himself, Wings, and the three albums created by the Fireman, as well as some surprises.

Fran Jeffries

In 1966, Fran Jeffries recorded an album for Monument Records, This Is Fran Jeffries; a collection of standards and popular songs, produced by Fred Foster with arrangements by Dick Grove and Bill Justis, including a rendition of Lennon–McCartney's "Yesterday".

Good Evening Europe Tour

The tour followed McCartney's summer tour of the United States, Summer Live '09, and the live album pulled from his three-night stint at the newly opened Citi Field in New York City, Good Evening New York City.

I'll Follow the Sun

McCartney performed the song live during The 'US' Tour; he did too at the Paris Olympia on 22 October 2007, in Kyev for the Independence Concert on 14 June 2008, in Quebec City for the free outdoor concert on 20 July 2008, that was the 400th anniversary of the city, and at Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 September 2008.

I'll Get You

McCartney would cite this as an early example of Lewis Carroll's influence on Lennon's lyrics — a ploy explored again in later compositions such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Lennon's solo "Imagine".

James McCartney

He was named after both his paternal grandfather Jim McCartney and his father, whose full name is James Paul McCartney, as well as Linda's late mother, heiress Louise Linder Eastman.

Jeffrey Daniel

Also in 1984 Daniel appeared in the Paul McCartney movie Give My Regards to Broad Street displaying his signature robotic or marionette-like dancing style (with McCartney, his wife Linda McCartney and members of the band Toto made up as marionettes) to the Wings hit, "Silly Love Songs".

Lennon Bermuda

#Wayne Furbert, Robert "Sai" Emery, Will Black, Francesca Dill, Ed Christopher, Ronnie Lopes, Dennis Moniz, Gita Blakeney, Paul Harney, TraceyLynn Harney, Adam Melvin – "All You Need Is Love" (Lennon–McCartney)

Let Me Roll It

During the Summer Live '09 tour, which included the Citi Field performances released on Good Evening New York City, McCartney added an instrumental version of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Foxy Lady" as a coda to "Let Me Roll It."

Linda McCartney Foods

The brand was created in 1991 by Linda McCartney (1941–1998), sold in 2000 to Heinz, and sold again in 2006 to the Hain Celestial Group, though the McCartney family remains involved in its development.

Love of the Loved

Oddly, the Beatles audition version was left off Anthology 1, even though the other Lennon–McCartney originals from the same session, "Hello Little Girl" and "Like Dreamers Do", were included.

Lubbock sound

The Beatles (Paul McCartney was so disappointed by the inaccuracies of the Holly biopic The Buddy Holly Story that he helped to make his own documentary of Holly's life titled The Real Buddy Holly Story)

Manuel Cuevas

The suits worn by The Beatles on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band have been attributed to Cuevas, but Paul McCartney has said they were actually conceived by The Beatles and manufactured by the British theatrical costumer M. Berman Ltd. in London.

Marta Grigorieva

Marta donated paintings to numerous charities, including British Red Cross (2009), St Paul's School Children Charity Fund in London (2008), English National Ballet (2008), Linda McCartney Centre for Breast Cancer Research Foundation (2007), Help London Child with Archant Publishing (2007), also supported victims of Cyprus through Honorary Consul for Cyprus in Monaco (2011).

Mrs Vandebilt

McCartney had not played the song live until a 2008 free concert in Kiev, on account of it receiving the most requests in a web poll.

My Brave Face

McCartney included the song on his world tour in 1989-1990; a recording of it is included on the live album Tripping the Live Fantastic.

National Graves Association, Belfast

This plot contains the remains of 5 IRA volunteers, Joe McKelvey, Sean McCartney, Terence Perry, Sean Gaffney and Seamus Burns.

Northern Ireland Unionist Party

Cedric Wilson, Patrick Roche, Norman Boyd and Roger Hutchinson disagreed with McCartney, wanting to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement.

Off the Ground

Some weeks after its release, McCartney launched "The New World Tour", taking in many successful shows across the globe during the summer months.

Orange Swirl

The heavily Beatles/Elvis Costello-influenced disc features 12 original tunes and one Lennon/McCartney classic, "She's Leaving Home".

Oriental Nightfish

The track "The Oriental Nightfish" was released in 1998 on the studio/compilation album Wide Prairie following Linda McCartney's death earlier that year.

Paulton, Illinois

Today the interior streets of the community are named McCartney (for the singer), Simon (for both the singer and the senator), Saint (for the early Christian Apostle), Pope (for the many Catholic leaders so named), Revere (for the patriot) and Newman (for the actor).

Paxton Mills

Paxton was heard with Rod Roddy who was also a KLIF broadcaster at the time discussing the Paul Is Dead urban legend about Beatle Paul McCartney.

Peter and Gordon

Peter and Gordon told Palmiere at the Las Vegas Festival for Beatles Fans that they were to perform at the 2006 Adopt-A-Minefield show with Paul McCartney but the show was subsequently cancelled by McCartney, due to his impending divorce from Heather Mills.

Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

R E Dunin-Borkowski, M R McCartney, R B Frankel, D A Bazylinski, M Posfai and P R Buseck, Magnetic microstructure of magnetotactic bacteria by electron holography, Science 282 (1998), 1868–1870.

Rockshow

The film had a limited worldwide cinema re-release on May 16, 2013, with an exclusive introduction and interview with McCartney.

Rupert and the Frog Song

In 2002 and September 2004 the film was re-released on DVD Tales of Wonder Music and Animation Classics (also called Paul McCartney - Music & Animation Collection), to mark its 20th Anniversary, along with Calling All Toddlers 2 (which featured that opening as a music video) and two other shorts directed by Geoff Dunbar, Tropic Island Hum and Tuesday.

Silly Love Songs

Author Tim Riley suggests that in the song, McCartney is inviting "his audience to have a laugh on him," as Elvis Presley had sometimes done.

Step Inside Love

In late 1967 McCartney was approached to write the theme by Cilla and her series producer Michael Hurll.

Tell Me What You See

Nevertheless, the line "trying to get to you" (the title of an early Elvis Presley song recorded for Sun Records which served as inspiration for McCartney & Harrison's first composition, "In Spite of All the Danger") is a clear reminder of both songwriters' love for early rock and roll.

The Back Seat of My Car

McCartney first presented this composition for The Beatles' consideration during the Get Back rehearsals on 14 January 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios in London, but the album was aborted before anything could be done with the song, which eventually did not make it onto Let It Be either.

The Linda McCartney Story

The Linda McCartney Story is a 2000 American drama television film directed by Armand Mastroianni, starring Elizabeth Mitchell and Gary Bakewell.

Tommy Quickly

"Tip of My Tongue" (Lennon–McCartney) / "Heaven Only Knows" (August 1963, Pye Piccadilly 7N 35137)

Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

In a 1981 conversation with Hunter Davies, who had written a biography of the Beatles in 1968, McCartney responded to a Yoko Ono interview where she said McCartney had hurt Lennon more than anyone else, by saying, "No one ever goes on about the times John hurt me ... Could I have hurt him more than the person who ran down his mother in his car?"

Wings at the Speed of Sound

This was followed in July with "Let 'Em In", which also scaled the singles charts. Amid all this, Wings finally went to North America for the Wings Over America Tour, playing McCartney's first shows there for ten years (after The Beatles' last tour in 1966) to euphoric reaction; a few selections from Speed of Sound were included.

With a Little Luck

Written in Scotland, "With a Little Luck" would become Wings' follow-up single to the then best-selling UK Single of all time, "Mull of Kintyre" and was one of the first synthpop records to appear on radio and in the charts and the beginning of McCartney's period of involvement and experimentation with synthesisers.

Working Classical

#* Originally introduced on McCartney's 1997 album Flaming Pie


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