Paul McCartney

PAUL McCARTNEY. English rock singer and musician who achieved worldwide fame as the bass guitarist with The Beatles ; the most successful group of all time. He formed with John Lennon one of the most influential songwriting partnerships in music history. Listed in The Book of Records as the most successful musician and composer in music history with 60 Gold Discs / 24 UK No1s and 100 million singles sales. "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history with over 3700 versions ; "Mull of Kintyre" 1977 was the first ever 2 million selling single. His company owns the copyright to over 3000 songs including all by Buddy Holly. He was married to American musician, photographer and animal rights activist Linda from 1969 until her death aged 56 from breast cancer on April 17th 1998.