Sir Paul McCartney

Profession: Musician
Place/Date of Birth: Liverpool , 18 June 1942
Associated with: Heather Mills, Stella McCartney

The Labour MP for Wirral South, Ben Chapman, who was also part of the campaign against the proposed closure, said: "I am disappointed and angry that such a decision has been taken."

Jane Briginshaw, Post Office Ltd’s Network Development Manager for the North West, said: "These are difficult decisions which have not been taken lightly. We have considered very carefully all the comments made during the public consultation."

Sir Paul to exhibit Linda’s photos - Jan 16 2008
Sir Paul McCartney is to stage an exhibition of photographs by his late wife Linda.

The former Beatle has spent the past three years putting together the show, which will mark the 10th anniversary of her death.

It includes images of stars such as Jim Morrison and John Lennon, and intimate portraits of McCartney family life.

This is the first major exhibition of Linda’s photographs to be staged in the UK, and spans her career from the 1960s to shortly before her death in April 1998.

The couple’s photographer daughter Mary has also helped to curate the exhibition, which will open at the James Hyman Gallery in London’s Savile Row on April 24

Sir Paul said: "An exhibition presenting the range of Linda’s photographic work is long overdue, so I’m obviously pleased that this show is happening. James Hyman, my daughter Mary and I have worked on it now for three years, and the result is a sensitive selection of works that really demonstrates Linda’s prodigious output as a photographer.

"The photographs not only illustrate her incredible talent as an artist, but as someone who was very much connected to the culture of the times and wasn’t afraid to challenge herself or her subject."

Linda started out as a rock photographer and her subjects included John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Sir Mick Jagger. The exhibition will also feature landscapes, self-portraits and family snaps. Some have rarely been seen before in public.

Macca in secret heart procedure? - Jan 3 2008
Sir Paul McCartney is fighting fit after undergoing a secret heart procedure, according to friends.

The former Beatle had a coronary angioplasty in September last year to open blocked arteries.

A friend of the star said: "It was a routine procedure and Paul is in excellent health. Fans certainly have no need to worry.

"He immediately returned to a busy schedule, performing in Paris and London the following month.

"Anyone who saw him singing with Kylie on Jools Holland’s BBC2 show on New Year’s Eve will have seen that he is back on top form."

Sir Paul, 65, underwent the procedure at a private London hospital.

He is understood to have grown concerned about heart problems in 2006 and doctors monitored his health.

A coronary angioplasty is usually carried out under local anaesthetic and involves a fine catheter tube through an incision in the groin.

The tube is pushed up into an artery around the heart and a tiny balloon is inflated to widen the artery, allowing better blood flow.

David Beckham’s father, Ted, had the same procedure last year.

Nancy admits nerves at Macca friendship - Nov 8 2007
The married US millionairess pictured kissing Sir Paul McCartney has said she’s "so nervous".

The former Beatle is enjoying a friendship with lawyer’s wife Nancy Shevell.

The pair have been spotted sharing meals and walks along the beach in the Hamptons, New York, where Macca has a home.

Outside her Manhattan apartment, Nancy said: "I’m so nervous. I don’t want to say anything."

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Biography

Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 1942 to James and Mary McCartney. He was raised in the city and educated at The Liverpool Institute.

At the age of 15 he met John Lennon. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they formed the most successful group in the history of music--the Beatles.

Since the Beatles, Paul has released 21 albums and staged three world tours, while evolving into classical composition, film-making and actively campaigning for ecology and animal rights After the Beatles split up in 1970, Paul embarked on a solo career before forming the group Wings with his wife, American Linda McCartney, which had some success but never to the scale of the Beatles, That has never yet again been seen, (even now)

His solo period during the eighties culminated with charity performances at Live Aid and for The Prince of Wales Trust, leading him to get back on the road again. Since 1990, Paul McCartney has traveled over 800,000 miles in concert through 22 countries, setting, along the way, the Guinness world record for the largest stadium crowd in the history of rock and roll--184,000 in Rio de Janeiro. During the same time, he also established the "MTV Unplugged" vogue and then performed his acoustic show in clubs and pubs around Europe.

In 1991, Paul staged the performance of his first classical work, "The Liverpool Oratorio", which has since been performed in more than 50 cities worldwide. In 1995--the 30th anniversary of his most acclaimed song, "Yesterday"-- Paul’s second classical work, "A Leaf," was performed at a benefit concert he organized for the Royal College of Music at St. James Palace. Paul composed a major orchestral work, commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of EMI Records.

In recognition of his work for all music, Paul was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the U.K.’s highest musical honour. Aside from his music, Paul McCartney campaigns for Greenpeace, Friends of The Earth and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. He and his wife Linda are the new patrons of the British Vegetarian Society. He is also the chief patron of The Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, a new school similar to New York’s High School of the Performing Arts, which will open in his hometown in 1996. Paul has also developed his interest in film-making. His first production, "Daumier’s Law," won the top prize in 1992 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.

His latest short feature, "Grateful Dead, A Photofilm," will be entered in the London Film Festival at the invitation of the British Film Institute. He was also knighted by the Queen and made a ’Sir’ Paul and Linda had three children between them as well as Linda daughter from a previous marriage, which Paul adopted as his own. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998, she was only 56.

All of their children are a success in their own right Stella McCartney is head designer at Gucci after a very successful stint as head designer for Chloe and daughter Mary is a successful photographer just as her mother Linda was before her.

Three years after the death of his first wife Paul met Heather Mills at a charity event where Mills was raising financial assistance for the Heather Mills Trust, a foundation providing artificial limbs to war victims across the globe. Mills, a former swimsuit model, lost her left leg below the knee in 1993 after being hit by a police motorcyclist.
March 2008