Sir James Paul McCartney,
MBE (born
18 June 1942) is an
English singer,
songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of
The Beatles. McCartney and
John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful
songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, McCartney launched a successful solo career and formed the band
Wings with his first wife,
Linda McCartney. He has worked on film scores, classical music, and ambient/electronic music; released a large catalogue of songs as a solo artist; and taken part in projects to help
international charities. McCartney is listed in
Guinness World Records as the most successful musician and composer in
popular-music history, with 60
gold discs and sales of 100 million
singles. His song "
Yesterday" is listed as the most
covered song in history and has been played more than 7,000,000 times on
American television and radio. Wings' 1977 single "
Mull of Kintyre" became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the UK, and remains the UK's top selling non-charity single (three charity singles have since surpassed it in sales; the first to do so—in 1984—was
Band Aid's "
Do They Know It's Christmas?", whose participants included McCartney).
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