The Beatles' Paul McCartney does not need to be introduced, and quite a few have done so.
Favorite songs, classics, suspense and mythology are already deeply ingrained in the world cultural consciousness, and there is no need to perpetuate them anymore.
In honor of the British musician's 80th birthday, we go back to the decades that established him as a one-of-a-kind artist.
Those who made him more than an ex-Beatle, or a singer who lived on the glory of his past, and unequivocally stated: Not only is Paul not dead - he will also live forever.
The 70s
to get out of a successful band and crack on an independent path is a complex task for any musician, but for McCartney and his most iconic bandmates - it was almost a test.
In the years of the Beatles' dissolution, McCartney sinks into depression, from which his wife Linda takes him.
In his song "Maybe I'm Amazed" he deals with the way she healed his spirit by praising his abilities as a songwriter.
In 1970 he released "McCartney" - an acclaimed collection of songs, all of which he wrote and arranged himself.
Linda contributes her voice to the album, as she will in her second solo album "Ram", but the decade of the 70's is undoubtedly that of Wings.
For this purpose, McCartney teamed up with his wife, blues mody guitarist Danny Lane and drummer Danny Civil, and formed his second most famous band after the Beatles.
Miraculously, Wings becomes a successful band - even without the need to perform Beatles songs in their performances.
They play in fairly modest venues and record seven albums, including the successful "Wings at the Speed of Sound" and "Band on the Run".
This is also the decade in which McCartney's daughter Stella and son James are born, and where the two team up with Beatles producer George Martin to create the theme song for the James Bond film "Live and Let Die," which became one of his best-selling post-Beetle songs.
In 1980, Wings disbanded, and McCartney returned to his only career with "McCartney II."
Interestingly, the 1980s
, the fifth decade of Paul's life, was marked mostly by his collaborations.
In 1982 he released "Ebony and Ivory", his collaboration with Stevie Wonder.
Another musical partnership remembered from those years is the one with Michael Jackson, then the biggest pop star in the world, in songs like "The Girl Is Mine" and "Say Say Say".
At the time, and in what was considered by many to be an unnecessary trivia item in history, Jackson acquired the rights to the Beatles' catalog of works, having made a higher bid than McCartney for his purchase.
In 1984, the former Beetle released the hit "No More Lonely Nights", which he co-recorded with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmore.
It's a decade of ups and downs for McCartney - who on the one hand writes, directs, dubs and produces the acclaimed animated short film "Rupert and the Frog Song" - and on the other hand writes and participates in the musical "Give My Regards to Broad Street", which also features his friend To the Beatles Ringo Starr.
The film receives particularly deadly reviews, and the musician ends that confusing decade with the record "Flowers in the Dirt", in which Elvis Costello also participates.
The 90's
that many remember for the song and music video "Hope of Deliverance", which burned MTV in 1993, also includes an unplugged appearance on the then popular music channel.
In those years, McCartney focused on the Beatles' anthology - a huge and ambitious project that included a TV documentary, compilation albums full of rare excerpts and unfamiliar versions of favorite songs, and a book - all about a quartet from Liverpool.
But the thing that some claim to have defined the decade for the singer was Linda's tragic death as a result of breast cancer.
Accompanying her in her battle with the disease he releases the album "Flaming Pie", and later, following her death in April 1998, he organizes "Concert for Linda", a tribute show that included performances by George Michael, Tom Jones, Shane O. Conor, Marian Faithful and others.
They all sing in memory of the one who was his partner in creation and life for 29 years.
The 2000s
In 2002, McCartney married model Heather Mills, and the two became the subject of popular coverage of the tabloids in Britain and around the world.
Even in the sixth and seventh decades of his life, he is still considered a huge star and fills huge halls - but also receives a creative refinement.
This is thanks to projects such as the electronic album he released with the band "Super Free Animals", the record "Driving Rain" (which dealt, among other things, with the terrorist attack of September 11, which he predicted closely) and the super-rated album from 2007 "Memory Almost Full".
At the end of the month it is going to be the main show at the prestigious Glastonbury Festival.
Not bad for an 80 year old.
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