James Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942 at Walton General Hospital in Liverpool, England to James and Mary McCartney. His brother, Michael, who's full name is Peter Michael McCartney, was born eighteen months later. His family moved a few times but when he was 13 they moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton, just across a golf course and a little over one mile away from where John lived with his Aunt Mimi.
Music was always a part of the McCartney household. Before the war, Paul's father was a Cotton salesman during the day, and a jazz musician with Jim Mac's Jazz Band by night. Both Paul and his brother received piano lessons. His mother Mary died of breast cancer when he was fourteen, while the two brothers were away at Boy Scout camp. The antithesis of John Lennon as a school boy, Paul did very well in school.
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