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Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney pairs an unfailing gift for melody with restless curiosity, moving easily between intimate ballads, vivid pop and inventive studio experiments.

Featured on Sundown Sessions
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First featured
26 June 2024
Last featured
Sundown Sessions #4 26 June 2024
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About Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose career connects the Beatles, Wings and more than five decades of solo work. With John Lennon he formed one of popular music’s defining songwriting partnerships, while his melodic bass playing and appetite for studio experimentation became central to the Beatles’ changing sound.

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After the Beatles, McCartney moved from the homespun intimacy of McCartney and Ram into the arena-scale success of Wings, then continued a solo catalogue spanning pop, rock, electronic experiments and classical work. “Smile Away”, featured in Show #4, comes from Ram and captures the loose, energetic side of his early post-Beatles recordings.

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