Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Paul McCartney and Wings miss hitting No. 1 with their new box set ...
Entertainment duo Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twins who shot to superstardom in the post World War II era, died together by joint assisted suicide, the German Society for Humane Dying said Tuesday ...
Other than the occasional track, like the 1972 single “Give Ireland Back to the Irish,” Paul McCartney isn’t generally associated with topical songs. But he’s changing his tune, so to speak, as part ...
Earlier this year, over a thousand artists came together to release the album Is This What We Want?. Per the project’s website, it was made in response to proposed copyright law changes in the UK, ...
Paul McCartney always knew The Beatles wouldn’t be his only legacy. In 1970, a month before the band’s swan song, “Let It Be,” he dropped the first nugget of a five decade (and counting) continuation ...
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr had the mother of all solo-career conundrums. It’s hard enough building a reputation as a one-man act after leaving a moderately ...
Stella McCartney was just a young girl when, in 1980, her father, Paul, was famously busted with nearly half a pound of marijuana in Japan — but she wasn’t surprised. “I remember [the guard] opening ...
As Paul McCartney played the first chords of "Let it Be" inside Nationwide Arena Nov. 8, I began to choke up. The song has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and I was singing along ...
Nashville got to hear Paul McCartney and John Lennon sing together Thursday night. While Lennon was present only via video, McCartney was live on stage at the Nov. 6, 2025 show The Pinnacle in ...
And your turd can sing. Paul McCartney and his then-wife Linda McCartney reportedly mailed a music critic their baby daughter’s turd following a negative concert review in the early 1970s. Wings ...
Paul McCartney opened up about the death of his childhood friend and former bandmate John Lennon in a new book about his post-Beatles band, Wings. McCartney, 83, recalled learning of Lennon’s December ...