paul mccartney archive

lucky, heather, martha, and paul

paul mccartney and lucky in ireland, 1971 📸 linda mccartney

paul mccartney's paintings of linda • yellow linda with piano, 1988 • linda yellow red cross, 1994

📷 Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: #EyesOfTheStorm 📷 In a major exhibition, the @npglondon will display an extraordinary archive of rediscovered and never-before-seen photographs taken by Paul at the height of Beatlemania. 28 June – 1 October 2023: npg.org.uk/PaulMcCartneyE…

paul mccartney's feet, jamaica (1972) 📸 linda mccartney

paul mccartney celebrating christmas in liverpool, 1968 📸 linda

some postcards sent by paul mccartney to ringo starr. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "paul was always very good at postcarding. and they 𝒶𝓁𝓁 knew that i love postcards!"

paul mccartney, 1967

paul's "outrageous big check" suit wasn't ready by the time of the event. "so, i went to the party with the cotton and the stitching showing, and everyone said, ‘your suit’s not finished.’ i said, ‘yeah, i know. great, huh?’" - paul mccartney, wingspan, 2002

each of the invitees to 'the ball', the launch party for wings' debut album 'wild life', recieved this handwritten invitation from paul mccartney 📍the ball was held on 8 november 1971 at the empire ballroom in leicester square, london

paul mccartney, 1965 📸 robert freeman

"i would come back from a run with a poem to share and having listened linda would say 'what a mind' though the lines may not have been supreme, she wasn't merely being kind. she meant what she said. it's going to make a man feel good, that kind of a thing." - paul mccartney

paul mccartney, twickenham studios (jan 1969)

mary and paul mccartney in matching outfits (1971) 📍 new york 📸 linda mccartney

linda and heather in central park, 1968 📸 paul mccartney

linda and paul mccartney taking photos of each other, morocco (1973)

paul mccartney in liverpool (1979)

paul mccartney, 1970 - recording mccartney - recording ram

the fool in tarot is portrayed as a young man standing on a cliff, holding a white rose - symbol of freedom from desires, in one hand; and in the other a small bundle, representing untapped collective knowledge. it represents new beginnings, optimism, curiosity for knowledge.

i wrote 'the fool on the hill' out of that experience, about a person who's not taken seriously because he seems silly on the surface. the idea appealed to me. [source: many years from now, barry miles]

paul mccartney on 'the fool on the hill': marijke of 'the fool' used to read my fortune in tarot cards, which i wasn't too keen on because i tend to dwell on that kind of stuff. it always used to come out as 'the fool' and i used to say "oh dear.."