Paul McCartney

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Full Name: James Paul McCartney
Birthdate: June 18th, 1942

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When Paul McCartney was a small boy, growing up in Liverpool, his chief hobbies were sketching, going on Boy Scout camping trips, and writing backwards. The first three hobbies make a lot of sense, but writing backwards?

"I just always seemed to do everything back to front," Paul said, "And don't ask me why. I used to write backwards in class and when the masters would look at my book, they used to throw little fits. I could never learn to ride a bike because I insisted on pedalling backwards. I was quite convinced that mine was the right way, and everyone else's was wrong." Then Dad said to me, "Well, why is it that they're getting along the road fine, and you're still here?"

"That's a point," I said, "And it started to dawn on me that I might conceivably be wrong about the whole theory." Paul has cured himself of doing just about every thing backwards, except that he's still left-handed.

The greatest tragedy of Paul's life came at 14 (and again, when Linda passed away) with the passing of his mother whom he loved very dearly. Paul's father, a cotton salesman, was equally heartbroken, but he tried in every way he could to comfort the boy and get him interested in many things. It was at this point that music became a very important factor in Paul's life.

When Paul entered the Liverpool Institute, he met George Harrison and they became friends. He said, "George was enough to put a sputnik off course, let alone a little thing like a brain. During the English lessons it came to life a bit, but in math and geography, it wouldn't function at all." Paul recalls sitting in math class, dreading the time when the master would ask him to solve a problem. To him, it was a problem having to add two and two, so you can imagine how bright he felt at deciding how long it would take a man to carry six cubic yards an hour, to remove ten hundred weight of coal. "One day," Paul said, "I had such a problem. Having stared at it blankly for about ten minutes, I gave up trying and started to doodle in words." Here's what he wrote:

There was a man up on a tree, Who moved some coal from A to B Per hour 6 yards of coal, fresh cubed And then this man became quite rude. Blast the silly coal, he said I'd rather put it on your head. If you're able, do it faster, You silly, rotten old school master.

When the school master saw the poem, naturally he threw Paul out of the class.

Paul loved the Boy Scout camps very much. He loved cooking baked beans over an open fire, then eating them with hot bread. Afterwards, they'd sit around the fire, wrapped in blankets to keep warm, and sing songs to an old banjo. However, one camping trip earned him a very serious illness the kept him in the hospital for 5 weeks. The doctors couldn't diagnose the illness, but decided after he was well that it was probably rheumatic fever.


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