SIR
PAUL
McCARTNEY
Paul
McCartney
was
born
in
Liverpool
on
18th
June
1942.
He
was
raised
in
the
city
and
educated
at
The
Liverpool
Institute.
Since
writing
his
first
song
at
the
age
of
14,
Paul
McCartney
has
dreamed
and
dared
to
be
different.
In
the
sixties,
as
the
writer
and
co-author
of
their
greatest
songs,
he
changed
the
world
of
music
with
The
Beatles.
Legendary
albums
include:
Please
Please
Me,
Revolver,
Help!,
Sgt.
Pepper's
Lonely
Hearts
Club
Band
and
The
White
Album.
Through
the
following
three
decades,
first
with
Wings
and
then
as
a
solo
artist,
he
has
continued
to
break
boundaries
and
to
influence
the
sound
of
music
around
the
globe.
In
1990
he
was
commissioned
by
the
Royal
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Society
to
write
The
Liverpool
Oratorio,
which
has
received
more
than
100
performances
in
20
countries
since
its
premiere
in
1991,
a
performance
recorded
live
by
EMI
Classics.
The
double-CD
album
topped
the
charts
in
both
the
UK
and
USA
and
was
released
on
VHS
and
laserdisc.
In
1995
-
the
30th
anniversary
of
Paul
McCartney's
most-acclaimed
song
Yesterday
-
his
second
classical
work,
A
leaf
-
for
solo
piano,
was
premiered
at
St
James'
Palace
in
the
presence
of
the
Prince
of
Wales.
Since
then,
Paul
McCartney
has
taken
other
steps
into
the
classical
form,
composing
Stately
Horn,
Inebriation,
Spiral
and
his
major
challenge,
Standing
Stone.
Paul
McCartney
was
commissioned
by
EMI
Records
in
1996
to
compose
a
major
orchestral
work
to
mark
EMI's
100th
anniversary
in
the
autumn
of
1997.
The
symphonic
poem
Standing
Stone
was
recorded
in
the
legendary
Abbey
Road
studios,
conducted
by
Lawrence
Foster
and
performed
by
the
London
Symphony
Orchestra.
The
world
premiere
was
held
at
the
Royal
Albert
Hall
in
October
1997,
with
a
10-minute
standing
ovation
given
to
its
composer
by
the
capacity
audience,
and
has
been
released
by
EMI
Classics
on
both
VHS
and
DVD-Video.
Standing
Stone
then
proceeded
to
go
to
No.1
in
both
classical
charts
in
the
UK
and
USA
and
McCartney
later
won
the
USA's
National
Public
Radio
New
Horizon
Award
for
Standing
Stone,
in
recognition
of
his
work
in
broadening
the
appeal
of
classical
music.
Paul
McCartney's
third
album
on
EMI
Classics
Working
Classical
was
released
in
October
1999
and
features
three
new
short
orchestral
works,
A
Leaf,
Spiral
and
Tuesday
in
addition
to
string
quartet
arrangements
of
songs
written
for
his
late
wife,
Linda.
The
launch
of
this
album
was
a
performance
of
the
complete
works
of
Working
Classical
on
October
16th
in
Liverpool,
with
the
Royal
Liverpool
Philharmonic
Orchestra
conducted
by
Andrea
Quinn
and
the
Loma
Mar
String
Quartet.
Paul
McCartney
himself
attended
this
historic
concert.
His
latest
album
is
A
Garland
for
Linda
-
an
album
to
commemorate
the
life
of
Linda
McCartney,
while
also
raising
funds
for
cancer
research,
with
original
music
from
Sir
Paul
himself
and
other
contemporary
composers.
The
launch
of
this
album
took
place
in
January
2000,
with
a
special
performance
of
all
the
works
on
A
Garland
for
Linda,
at
St
Andrew's
Church
in
Holborn,
London.
A
freeman
of
The
City
of
Liverpool
and
Lead
Patron
of
The
Liverpool
Institute
for
Performing
Arts,
Paul
McCartney
was
appointed
Fellow
of
The
Royal
College
of
Music
in
1995
by
The
Prince
of
Wales.
In
1996
Paul
McCartney
was
knighted
by
H.M.
The
Queen
for
his
services
to
music.
January
2000
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