Just in case you've been living on Venus or Mars, and don't know who Paul McCartney is:
Paul McCartney was a founding member of, and bass player for a 1960's band from England known as The Beatles. They were pretty big, like the biggest band ever. Just about every significant rock star of the late 60's through the early 80's cites the Beatles as the reason they got into music. They have 11 albums on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums,everthing except "Yellow Submarine". And 23 songs on Rolling Stone's list of Top 500 songs of all time, close to double the next artist. After the Beatles broke up, McCartney started a solo career, and formed a quite successful band called Wings. Over the next few decades he's been quite active, with his most recent release just last September. I'm not even going to try and count how many albums he's released over 55 years or so.
As bass player, McCartney was (is) one of the defining forces. Just check out any of the "isolated bass" videos on youTube.
Still touring, McCartney played last Friday in Arlington, TX, and will play next Saturday in San Diego. Looks like he's taking a few day's off for his birthday!
Happy Birthday, Sir Paul!
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