This critical list of major, world-changing accomplishments and delightful trifles runs the gamut from “The Long and Winding Road” to “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road”. 80 songs are just enough to cover the breadth as well as greatness of the 20th century’s (and beyond’s) greatest journeyman singer-songwriter, from The Beatles to today.
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10 'For No One' - His breakup with Jane Asher provided a wellspring of thoughts he was able to channel into some darker songs...
9 'I'm Down' -McCartney’s Little Richard worship found an early culmination in this wild rocker...
8 'Oh! Darling' ...after he tortured his voice to the point that it sounded absolutely ravaged ...
7 'I'm Looking Through You' - John was supposed to be the one who Does Cynicism, not Paul. But this...
6 'Blackbird' ...McCartney said he was inspired both by Atkins’ acoustic finger-picking style ...
5 'Here, There and Everywhere' - “We were trying to emulate the openings of some of our favorite old songs that had a completely rambling preamble,...”
4 'Maybe I'm Amazed' - McCartney proved that a ballad could be a thrill ride, too...
80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song For His 80th Birthday
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80 years old and still going: In honor of Paul McCartney’s birthday looks back at his top 40 biggest songs. solo artist and with his Wings.
Lindsey Buckingham: "Here, There And Everywhere," 1966
One of my favorite McCartney songs is “Here, There and Everywhere.” Along with Paul’s other ballads on the Revolver album, it significantly broadened the landscape of the Beatles’ music. Revolver was perhaps the group’s high watermark in terms of composition, and “Here, There And Everywhere” is a paragon among many masterpieces on that album.
It might seem a little obvious, but I would pick “For No One.” Rubber Soul was the first album I remember thinking, “This is something about a world I don’t know.” Up until then, all the Beatles songs had seemed very happy. Then there were darker things, more grown up things on Rubber Soul. Paul’s songs tended to remain quite joyful, but Lennon’s songs like “Girl” and “Norwegian Wood” had grown dark. Then Revolver comes out. That’s still my favorite of all Beatles records.
Nobody else wrote about those people. Nobody else had the heart to write about the lonely, old, frozen-in-place people that are the main part of the population. Nobody writes about them. We write about glorious, brave, bigger-than-life. We write about people who are in terrible pain. We write about very dramatic things. But we don’t write about small, cold, old, painful, lonely stuff like that, man. It was a very brave piece of writing. It’s a kind song, it’s a song of compassion in a quiet and very beautiful way.
I believe it was released in the States around late ’65. The Beatles had had a few albums before that. This was a completely different type of Beatles song. This was one guy, no drums, no electric guitars, an acoustic guitar, with a string quartet. I think I was about 15 or 16 when this came out — you know, at the height of puberty. I recognized that this was something dark, troubling, sad. Not like their other uptempo happy stuff like “Please Please Me” or “I Want To Hold Your Hand.” This was more of a grown-up son
The Hollies were playing with the Beatles in the north of England. After the Beatles’ soundcheck, where they did “Little Child” with John on harmonica, Paul came up to me and he goes, “Hey, do you want to hear a new song?” I said, “Are you kidding? Do I wanna hear a new Beatles song?” Nah, why would I want to hear a new Beatles song. I said, “Of course I would! Come on!” He gets John on one side of me and himself on the other, and they sing “Misery” for me, Paul in my left ear and John in my right ear. That was an incredible musical moment for me.
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Here all the besto top 40 position of Paul McCartney and the mosto relevant videos.80: Source: www.billboard.com
Paul McCartney’s Top 40 Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits
Rank, Title, Act, Peak Position, Peak Date
1. “Silly Love Songs,” Wings, No. 1 (5 weeks), May 22, 1976
2. “Say Say Say,” Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, No. 1 (6 weeks), Dec. 10, 1983
3. “Ebony and Ivory,” Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder, No. 1 (7 weeks), May 15, 1982
4. “My Love,” Paul McCartney & Wings, No. 1 (4 weeks), June 2, 1973
5. “Coming Up (Live at Glasgow),” Paul McCartney & Wings, No. 1 (3 weeks), June 28, 1980
6. “Band on the Run,” Paul McCartney & Wings, No. 1 (1 week), June 8, 1974
7. “The Girl is Mine,” Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney, No. 2, Jan. 8, 1983 
8. “Listen to What the Man Said,” Wings, No. 1 (1 week), July 19, 1975
9. “With a Little Luck,” Wings, No. 1 (2 weeks), May 20, 1978
10. “Live and Let Die,” Wings, No. 2, Aug. 11, 1973
11. “Let 'Em In,” Wings, No. 3, Aug. 14, 1976
12. “Junior's Farm/Sally G,” Paul McCartney & Wings, No. 3, Jan. 11, 1975
19. “Take it Away,” Paul McCartney, No. 10, Aug. 21, 1982
20. “FourFiveSeconds,” Rihanna & Kanye West & Paul McCartney, No. 4, Feb. 28, 2015
21. “Helen Wheels,” Paul McCartney & Wings, No. 10, Jan. 12, 1974
22. “Hi, Hi, Hi,” Wings, No. 10, Feb. 3, 1973
