Paul McCartney life to be a documentary: some bizarre anecdotes

By editorial board on March 15, 2021

Sir Paul McCartney's life is to be turned into a documentary by award-winning filmmaker behind Liam Gallagher biopic Charlie Lightening.

He is one of the most iconic figures in music with a career spanning six decades.(dailymail.co.uk)

Sir Paul McCartney is to have his life turned in documentary that has been 12 years in the making

'I've worked with Paul McCartney for 12 years and I followed him. I am still working with him, it's not finished. I'll be with him at Glastonbury,' project director Charlie said at the NME.

By the autumn of 1966, Paul McCartney was one of the most famous people on the planet. 

Wisely, he took full advantage of his position, realising that it gave him the opportu ­nity to meet virtually whoever took his fancy. One day, he telephoned the eminent philoso­pher Bertrand Russell, who was then aged 94, and living in Chelsea.

'Somehow, I got his number and called him up. I figured him as a good speaker, I'd seen him on television, I'd read various bits and pieces and was very impressed by his dignity and the clarity of his thinking,' Paul recalled.

'So when I got a chance I went down and met him.' The elderly philosopher and the 24 -year -old pop

star spoke about the iniquities of the Vietnam war. It was, Paul remembered, 'a great little talk. Nothing earth shattering. He just clued me in to the fact that Vietnam was a very bad war, it was an imperialist war and American vested interests were really all it was all about. It was a bad war and we should be against it.'

The film, which does not yet have a release date, includes interviews with the man himself and will look to cover Paul's decade in the Beatles, his second band Wings and his subsequent solo career.

'He's helped me with what I do and I adore him. He's trusted me and to have someone like that to see up close and work with – that's inspiring, it makes you better at what you are, it makes you want to be better.'

About Freddie Mercury:" I think you can tell when a band’s got musical skill. But I think there’s a say, the first thing you heard with Queen was Freddie’s voice. And it’s the same as it was then. It’s a very strong voice. A very distinctive voice. And you recognize that this guy knows what he’s doing.”

Girlfriends: At one point three different girlfriends were living at McCartney’s bachelor mansion, until the arrival of Linda Eastman scattered the competition.

Charlie is the man behind the award-winning rockumentary on Liam Gallagher, As It Was, which beat Rocketman to win best music film at this year's NME Awards.

After questions on his ability on a early episode of BBC  Desert Island Discs  to survive on a desert island including being able to deal with loneliness and what he would enjoy escaping from in his own life. Attention then quickly turns to The Beatles with McCartney admitting that he (at least then) held no copies of his records. But soon enough, the first song selection is up and it was a choice very dear to McCartney’s heart.

“The first one is Elvis Presley’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’,” selects McCartney, “to me, it sorta takes me back to when I was first buying records. Up until that point it had been sorta Billy Cotton, and ‘swing’, and ‘bee-bop’ and stuff. Suddenly rock and roll burst on the scene and Elvis was one of the first people who really made me take an interest. I remember being at school when this record came out.”

The bassist then reveals that in fact his first instrument was not a guitar but was his father’s old trumpet. Out of use following his dad’s newly acquired false teeth, McCartney jumped at the chance to get his hand on his own instrument. It was something he soon gave up when he realised he couldn’t both sing and play the trumpet. “Brilliant thinking,”


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