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On June 18, 1942, James Paul McCartney
was born at Walton General Hospital in Liverpool, where his mother had previously
worked as a midwife. His brother, Michael, who's full name is
Peter Michael McCartney, and who later went by the name of Mike McGear,
was born eighteen months later. His family moved a few times, when he was
13, they moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, just across a golf course
and a little over one mile away from where John lived with his Aunt Mimi.
Music was always a part of the McCartney household. Before the war,
Paul's father was a Cotton salesman during the day, and a jazz musician
with Jim Mac's Jazz Band by night. Both Paul and his brother received
piano lessons. His mother Mary died of breast cancer when he was fourteen,
while the two brothers were away at Boy Scout camp. The antithesis of John
Lennon as a school boy, Paul did very well in school. Paul switched to the Bass when the Beatles' bass player Stu Sutcliffe left the group in 1961. When all of the Beatles moved to London in 1963, Paul began to see actress Jane Asher on a steady basis.
Biographical info from the book Shout! by Philip Norman, The Love You Make by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, and The Beatles A To Z by Sue Weiner.
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