Paul McCartney b. 1942

Changed the world of music with the Beatles in the 1960's * Wrote his first song at the age of 14 and has always dreamed and dared to be different * Through the following three decades, first with Wings and then as a solo artist, has continued to influence the sound of music around the globe.

"These three works are impressionistic mood-pictures: they belong to an English pastoral tradition that includes Delius and Butterworth. It is no coincidence that McCartney is also a painter, and that he has lived for many years in the country: the city ethos of his upbringing, which informed most of his songs for The Beatles, has largely been superceded by a strong rural landscape and its evocation in music." -- David Matthews