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  1. Jump up^ Jim McCartney's father Joe played an E-flat tuba.[13] He pointed out the bass parts in songs on the radio, and often took his sons to local brass bandconcerts.[14]
  2. Jump up^ During their extended stays there over the next two years, they performed as the resident group at the Indra, and later the Kaiserkeller, both owned byBruno Koschmider. Periodically, the band received breaks from playing in Hamburg and returned to Liverpool, performing regularly at the Cavern Club.[24]
  3. Jump up^ In 1963, the Beatles released two studio albums: Please Please Me and With the Beatles. Two more albums followed in 1964: A Hard Day's Night andBeatles for Sale.[29]
  4. Jump up^ McCartney co-wrote (with Lennon) several of their early hits, including "I Saw Her Standing There", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (1963) and "Can't Buy Me Love" (1964).[30]
  5. Jump up^ Also included on Revolver was "Here, There and Everywhere", a McCartney composition which is his second favourite after "Yesterday".[43]
  6. Jump up^ Written by McCartney as a commentary on his childhood in Liverpool, "Penny Lane" featured a piccolo trumpet solo inspired by Bach's secondBrandenburg concerto.[53]
  7. Jump up^ The Sgt. Pepper cover piqued a frenzy of analysis.[56]
  8. Jump up^ The Beatles was the band's first Apple Records LP release; the label was a subsidiary of Apple Corps, a conglomerate formed as part of Epstein's plan to reduce the group's taxes.[67]
  9. Jump up^ In October 1969, a rumour surfaced that McCartney had died in a car crash in 1966 and been replaced by a lookalike, but this was quickly refuted when a November Life magazine cover featured him and his family, accompanied by the caption "Paul is still with us".[71]
  10. Jump up^ When the Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, their first year of eligibility, McCartney did not attend the ceremony, stating that unresolved legal disputes would make him "feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with [Harrison and Starr] at a fake reunion."[73]
  11. Jump up^ The Beatles released twenty-two UK singles and twelve LPs, of which seventeen singles and eleven LPs reached number one on various charts.[74]The band topped the US Billboard Hot 100 twenty times, and recorded fourteen number-one albums, as Lennon and McCartney became one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.[75] McCartney was the primary writer of five of their last six US number-one singles: "Hello, Goodbye" (1967), "Hey Jude" (1968), "Get Back (1969)", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" (1970).[76]
  12. Jump up^ McCartney peaked in the UK at number two, spending thirty-two weeks in the charts.[80]
  13. Jump up^ Wings' first album together, Wild Life, reached the top ten in the US and the top twenty in the UK, staying on the UK charts for nine weeks.[83]
  14. Jump up^ In May 1973, Wings began a 21-show tour of the UK, this time with supporting act Brinsley Schwarz.[87]
  15. Jump up^ "Live and Let Die" became a staple of McCartney's live shows, its modern sound well-suited for the pyrotechnics and laser light displays Wings employed during their 1970s stadium performances.[91]
  16. Jump up^ Band on the Run became the UK's first platinum LP.[94]
  17. Jump up^ In 1974, McCartney hired guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton to replace McCullough and Seiwell. Britton subsequently quit during recording sessions in 1975 and was replaced by Joe English.[97]
  18. Jump up^ Wings at the Speed of Sound peaked in the UK at number 2, spending 35 weeks in the charts. In the UK, NME was alone in ranking the album number 1. The LP reached number 1 on three charts in the US.[99]
  19. Jump up^ In 1977, McCartney released the album Thrillington, an orchestral arrangement of Ram, under the pseudonym Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, with a cover designed by Hipgnosis.[104]
  20. Jump up^ During the production of London Town, McCulloch and English quit Wings; they were replaced by guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Steve Holly.[106]
  21. Jump up^ Other factors in Wings' split included tension caused by the disappointment of their last effort, Back to the Egg, and McCartney's 1980 marijuana bust in Japan, which resulted in the cancelling of the tour and caused a major loss of wages for the group. Laine claimed that a significant cause of their dissolution was McCartney's reluctance to tour, fearing for his personal safety after the1980 murder of Lennon. McCartney's then-spokesman said, "Paul is doing other things, that's all".[112]
  22. Jump up^ Wings produced a total of seven studio albums, two of which topped the UK charts and four the US charts. Their live triple LP, Wings over America, was one of only a few live albums ever to achieve the top spot in America.[113]They made six US Billboard number-one singles, including "Listen to What the Man Said" and "Silly Love Songs", as well as eight top-ten singles. They achieved eight RIAA-certified platinum singles and six platinum albums in the US.[92] In the UK, they achieved one number-one and twelve top-ten singles, as well as two number-one LPs.[114]
  23. Jump up^ Tug of War was a number-one album in both the UK and the US.[116]
  24. Jump up^ Pipes of Peace peaked in the UK at number 4, spending 23 weeks in the charts. The LP reached number 15 in the US and is McCartney's most recently recorded RIAA certified platinum studio album as of 2012.[118]
  25. Jump up^ "Spies Like Us" peaked in the UK at number 13 spending 10 weeks in the charts. The single reached number 7 in the US and is McCartney's most recently recorded US top-ten as of 2012.[123]
  26. Jump up^ Press to Play reached number 8 in the UK, and number 30 in the US.[126]
  27. Jump up^ In 1989, "Ferry Cross the Mersey" reached number 1 in the UK.[129]
  28. Jump up^ Flowers in the Dirt is McCartney's most recent UK number-one album as of 2012; it reached number 21 in the US.[131]
  29. Jump up^ Tripping the Live Fantastic reached number 17 in the UK and number 26 in the US.[134]
  30. Jump up^ During the ten-month, 104-show Tripping the Live Fantastic tour, McCartney played as many as fourteen Beatles songs a night, comprising nearly half the performance.[135]
  31. Jump up^ Unplugged: The Official Bootleg reached number 7 in the UK and number 14 in the US.[143]
  32. Jump up^ Off the Ground reached number 5 in the UK and number 17 in the US.[146]
  33. Jump up^ Paul is Live reached number 34 in the UK and number 78 in the US.[148]
  34. Jump up^ For the New World Tour, Whitten was replaced by drummer Blair Cunningham.[149] McCartney's 1993 tour of the US was the second highest grossing effort of the year in America, bringing in $32.3 million from twenty-four shows.[150]
  35. Jump up^ Flaming Pie reached number 2 in the UK and the US. It also yielded McCartney's highest charting UK top-twenty hit song as of 2012, "Young Boy", which reached number 19.[154]
  36. Jump up^ Run Devil Run reached number 12 in the UK and number 27 in the US.[157]
  37. Jump up^ Driving Rain reached number 46 in the UK and number 26 in the US.[163]
  38. Jump up^ Back in the U.S. reached number 8 in the US, and Back in the Worldreached number 5 in the UK.[166]
  39. Jump up^ During the Driving World Tour McCartney performed twenty-three Beatles songs in a thirty-six song set, including an all-Beatles encore.[135]
  40. Jump up^ In June 2005, McCartney released the electronica album Twin Freaks, a collaborative project with bootleg producer and remixer Freelance Hellraiserconsisting of remixed versions of songs from his solo career.[173]
  41. Jump up^ Chaos and Creation in the Backyard is McCartney's most recent top-ten album as of 2012. It reached number 10 in the UK, and number 6 in the US. It was supported by a UK top-twenty hit single, his most recent as of 2014, "Fine Line", which failed to chart in the US, and "Jenny Wren", which reached number 22 in the UK.[175]
  42. Jump up^ McCartney followed the release of Chaos and Creation in the Backyard withthe 'US' Tour, the tenth top earning act of 2005 in the US, taking in over $17 million in ticket sales for eight shows. During the opening performance of the tour, he played thirty-five songs, of which twenty-three were Beatles tracks.[176]
  43. Jump up^ Ecce Cor Meum reached number 2 on the classical charts in both the UK and the US.[177]
  44. Jump up^ Memory Almost Full reached number 3 in the US and spending fifteen weeks in the charts. As of 2014, it remains McCartney's most recent top-five album.[179]
  45. Jump up^ Electric Arguments reached number 67 on the Billboad 200 and number 1 on the Independent Albums chart.[181]
  46. Jump up^ In November 2010, iTunes made available the official canon of thirteen Beatles studio albums, Past Masters and the 1962-1966 and 1967-1970greatest-hits compilations, making the group among the last of the seminalclassic rock artists to offer their music for sale on the digital marketplace.[187]
  47. Jump up^ McCartney's band performed thirty-seven songs during 8 May 2012, performance in Mexico City, twenty-three of which were Beatles tracks.[193]
  48. Jump up^ As of 2012, Elvis Presley has achieved the most UK number-ones as a solo artist with eighteen.[373]
  49. Jump up^ "Hey Jude" was covered by several prominent artists, including Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Count Basie and Wilson Pickett.[378]

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