Sir Paul McCartney

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

"I don’t know why they give me things - I wouldn’t give me any," The Sun quotes him as saying on Radio 1.

And he said that lifetime achievement awards made him feel old, adding: "It’s actually not lifetime achievement. I try to avoid those because it feels like you’re going to die the next second."

Sir Paul, 65, suggested he had no plans for a duet with Amy Winehouse when he performs at the Earls Court bash, because people would want him to trot out the crowd-pleasers.

"I’m not sure the audience likes duets as much as you just doing one of your hits.

"I think if I was watching Mick (Jagger) duet with Amy, it would be kind of interesting, but I’d probably rather he did Satisfaction."

Judge to rule on McCartney divorce - Feb 18 2008
Heather Mills’s divorce battle over Sir Paul McCartney’s reputed £825 million fortune is to be decided by a High Court judge.

It will be up to Mr Justice Bennett to divide the spoils of their four-year marriage after the couple spent a week and a day in court behind closed doors.

Nicholas Mostyn QC, who has been representing the former Beatle in his fight with the former model, agreed as he left court that the judge had reserved his ruling.

This means rumours the couple had reached a settlement at the weekend were unfounded.

The drama began last week as Miss Mills put her case. She represented herself in court after dispensing with her legal team but was helped in court by a professional legal adviser.

Mr Mostyn put Sir Paul’s side of the argument and on Monday it was Miss Mills’ turn to reply to any points he made before the judge reserved his ruling.

Sir Paul was not in court on Monday. His interests would be represented by his legal team.

Mr Justice Bennett will decide on how the spoils of the marriage will be shared out and the conditions to be imposed on the warring couple.

His judgment, which will follow in a few weeks, will be binding on both former Beatle Sir Paul and Miss Mills, but could be challenged at the Court of Appeal if one side is unhappy about it.

McCartney divorce: still no breakthrough - Feb 15 2008
Valentine’s Day came and went without a glimmer of warmth in the divorce court battle between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.

Both are looking increasingly careworn as they emerge from Court 34 at London’s High Court each day.

The case is being held in secret, but every day that passes points to the fact that the negotiations to reach a settlement have become a war of attrition.

Friday is the final day of the scheduled five days allotted by the courts to the case. It could continue into Monday if Mr Justice Bennett believes it would be helpful.

But if he thinks he has heard enough to make a decision, then his judgment over the distribution of Sir Paul’s reputed £825 million fortune will be reserved to a later date.

The only winner - if there can be one - will be the couple’s daughter, Beatrice.

The four-year-old can look forward to becoming a very wealthy young lady indeed.

There are various schemes the courts could sanction as a safeguard that Beatrice never has to worry about money even though she has to live with the fact that her parents broke up after an obviously unhappy and stormy short marriage.

Wynne Thomas, of solicitors Dawsons, said one option was a bare trust which avoided taxation.

"It belongs to Beatrice but is managed by other people until she is 18. That is probably the advice they are receiving and how it would be dealt with."

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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