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James Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England, at Walton Hospital on June 18, 1942. His father Jim worked in the cotton trade and played trumpet and piano in ragtime bands. His mother Mary worked as a midwife. Paul attended Stockton Wood Road Primary School, then as he grew up he attended Joseph Williams Secondary School. Before passing the age of 11 in 1953 and getting a place at the Liverpool Institute. The following year, while he was traveling on a bus to the institute, he met George Harrison who was also a student there. Then in 1955 the McCartneys Forthlin Road, which was a council house in the Allerton area of ​​Liverpool, and they paid 1 pound 6 shillings which is about a dollar and six cents in the US, which was quite a sum of money at the time. The National Trust purchased the house in 1995 and it is now a popular tourist destination. In the 1920s it was an unassuming terraced house built by the local authority. Mary McCartney died of an embolism on October 31, 1956 following a mastectomy. The family was shaken by Mary's death, and caused a land between Paul McCartney and John Lennon, because his love is mother in 1958. Jim McCartney was a musician who had been the leader of Jim Mac's Jazz Band in the 1920s. At 20 Forthlin Road there was a piano that Jim had purchased from Henry Epstein's NEMS shop which was located in the first room. which Brian Epstein later took over. Jim encouraged Paul McCartney and his brother to pursue music. He gave Paul McCartney a trumpet after his mother's death. Paul McCartney traded his trumpet for a £1 one, his famous Zenith acoustic guitar when skiffle was a national fad. However, being left-handed, Paul McCartney initially had trouble playing the instrument. He later learned that re...... middle of paper ......966 The Beatles began to get tired of touring, because they couldn't even hear their own voices and instruments because of all the fans who they shouted. Paul McCartney agrees with the rest of the band and decides to make their wishes come true by not going on tour. Paul McCartney had to make an effort to keep the group together due to the death of Brian Epstein. Paul McCartney managed to make the Magical Mystery Tour film and album. He had also tried to convince the other members to agree to another tour in 1969, and John Lennon said, "I think you're crazy." Although they played the famous concert on the roof of the Apple offices, and it was filmed as part of the Let It Be project. Paul McCartney led the band during their last album called Abbey Road, which was released after Let It Be in 1969. Paul was not happy with Phil Spector's creation with the Let It Be album..