Paul McCartney's Voice Evolution with "The Beatles" (1963 - 1970)

Paul McCartney's Voice Evolution with "The Beatles" (1963 - 1970)

Do You Want to Know a Secret
, 1963
A Hard Day's Night
, 1964
Drive My Car
, 1965
Eleanor Rigby
, 1966
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
, 1967
Hello Goodbye
, 1967
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
, 1968
Hey Jude
, 1968
Oh! Darling
, 1969
I've Got a Feeling
, 1970


Paul McCartney Biography:

James Paul McCartney was born at Walton Hospital in Liverpool, where his mother Mary Mohin had worked as a nurse in the maternity ward. After a year and a half his brother Michael was born. McCartney receives baptism in the Catholic faith, but receives a secular education: his mother was Catholic and his father a Protestant who later became an agnostic.

Thanks to his primary school skills, McCartney gains admission to the prestigious Liverpool Institute. In 1954, on a bus ride from the suburb of Speke, where he lived, to the Institute, he met George Harrison, who lived nearby.

In 1955 the McCartney family moved to Forthlin Road in Allerton, a district of Liverpool. Since 1995, the Forthlin Road house is currently owned by the National Trust, a non-profit organization operating in Great Britain for the conservation of buildings of historical interest.

Paul's mother, Mary, died on October 31, 1956 after a mastectomy performed in an attempt to stop breast cancer. The premature loss of his mother (Paul was then 14 years old) would later bring him closer to John Lennon, whose mother Julia had died when Lennon was only 17.

Paul had a passion for music from an early age as his father Jim, who was a trumpet player and pianist and had been in charge of Jim Mac's Jazz Band, a local big band in the 1920s, had always encouraged his two sons to become musicians. Jim owned an upright piano which he bought in the shop of Harry Epstein, Brian Epstein's father. Jim listened to the songs on the radio with his children showing them the sounds of the different instruments and often took Paul to concerts by local brass bands. After the death of Paul's mother, Jim gives Paul a trumpet, which his son trades for a Framus Zenith 17 guitar when skiffle becomes the most popular musical genre. Paul McCartney, who is left handed, composes his first song, I Lost My Little Girl, with his first guitar that he will have to learn to play by holding it upside down. Later he also learns to play his father's piano and writes his second song: When I'm Sixty-Four which will be recorded many years later (in 1967) by the Beatles for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Following his father's instructions, he takes music lessons but because he prefers to learn by ear, he never pays much attention to it.