Mike McCartney

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Mike McCartney
Grimms

Peter Michael McCartney (born 7 January 1944),

Grimms. He is the younger brother of former Beatle Paul McCartney
.

Early years

Michael and his brother Paul were both born in the Walton Centre in Walton, Liverpool, England, where their mother, Mary McCartney, had previously worked as a nursing sister in charge of the maternity ward.[2][3] Michael was not enrolled in a Catholic school because his father, Jim McCartney, believed that they leaned too much towards religion instead of education.[2] At age 17, McCartney started his first job at Jackson's the Tailors in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. The year after, he took an apprenticeship at Andre Bernard, a ladies' hairdresser in the same street.[4]

Musical career

At the time

Liverpudlian equivalent of "fab".[5] The band was subsequently signed to Parlophone
.

The Scaffold recorded a number of UK

Christmas number one single, "Lily the Pink". McGear composed the band's next biggest hit, 1967's "Thank U Very Much". In 1968, he and McGough released a "duo" album (McGough & McGear) that included the usual Scaffold mix of lyrics, poems, and comedy. The Scaffold ended up hosting a TV programme, Score with the Scaffold, which limited the musical portion of their career, and they were dropped by Parlophone. McGear then signed to Island Records and released a solo musical album entitled Woman
in 1972, which again included many tracks co-written with McGough, and The Scaffold subsequently released their own album on the label, Fresh Liver.

The Scaffold then added several other members and released two albums on Island in 1973 as GRIMMS (an acronym for Gorman-Roberts-Innes-McGear-McGough-Stanshall).[5] However, McGear quit GRIMMS after the second album out of tension between himself and one of the poets added to the group.

McGear then signed to

Wings
. Although four singles were released from these sessions, only "Leave It" enjoyed any moderate chart success (No. 36 UK). However, also recorded during McCartney's sessions with Wings was a Scaffold "reunion" song, "Liverpool Lou", which became The Scaffold's last top-ten hit. This led to the group's re-formation in 1974, and they recorded and performed together through to 1977.

Individually, McGear released a few more singles. His final release, while still using the name Mike McGear, was the 1981 release "No Lar Di Dar (Is Lady Di)". This was a satirical tribute to

Prince Charles
.

In the 1980s, after retiring from music, Mike McCartney decided to end his use of the "McGear" pseudonym and revert to using his family name.

Photography career

McCartney was a photographer during his entire musical career, and has continued with photography since then. Beatles' manager

Live8.[5] In 2005, McCartney premiered and exhibited a collection of photographs that he had taken in the 1960s, called "Mike McCartney's Liverpool Life", both in Liverpool[7] and other venues, such as the Provincial Museum of Alberta.[8] In addition, an exhibition book of the collection was published.[9] He also took the cover photograph for Paul McCartney's 2005 solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.[6]

Personal life

The McCartney brothers also have a sister named Ruth whom their father Jim adopted in 1964 when he married her mother, Angela Williams. Mike McCartney married Angela Fishwick in 1968 and they had three daughters: Benna, Theran, and Abigail Faith; they later divorced. He married Rowena Horne on May 29, 1982 and they have three sons: Joshua, Max, and Sonny.[10]

Solo discography

Albums

UK releases

  • McGough and McGear (Parlophone PMC 7047 [mono], PCS 7047 [stereo]) [LP] May 1968
  • Woman (Island ILPS 9191) [LP] April 1972
  • Warner Bros. Records
    K 56051) [LP] September 1974
  • McGough and McGear (Parlophone PCS 7332) [LP] April 1989 [Reissue of the 1968 album]
  • McGough and McGear (EMI CDP 7 91877 2) [CD] April 1989 [Reissue of the 1968 album]
  • McGear
     (See For Miles SEECD 339) [CD] April 1992 [reissue of the 1974 album, with two additional tracks]
  • Woman (Edsel EDCD 507) [CD] February 1997 [reissue of the 1972 album, with four short tracks omitted]
  • A Collection of Songs for the Young Homeless of Merseyside (Merseyside Accommodation Project), [CD] December 1996 [Multi-artist commemorative release, including one newly recorded track by McGear]

US releases

Singles

UK releases

US release

  • "Leave It" / "Sweet Baby" (Warner Bros. WBS 8037) October 1974

Discography notes

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-85112-939-0
    .
  2. ^ a b Miles 1998 p. 4
  3. ^ Spitz 2005 p. 75
  4. ^ Mike McCartney biog on Beatles Ireland Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine iol.ie/~beatlesireland- Retrieved 16 October 2007
  5. ^ a b c d Mike McCartney’s biog Archived 21 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine mikemccartney.co.uk – Retrieved 6 October 2007
  6. ^ a b Barry O'Brien, "The Scaffold: Airbrushed from History?" Archived 7 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
  7. ^ a b Mike McCartney's Liverpool Life exhibition, Museum of Liverpool Life, 2003. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
  8. ^ ‘Liverpool Life’ Exhibition Archived 1 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine artvisionexhibitions.com – Retrieved 16 October 2007
  9. ^ Press release for exhibition book Archived 10 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine, dated March 2004. Retrieved 17 October 2004.
  10. ISBN 978-0-8637-9110-9
    .
  11. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .

References

External links
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