Paul McCartney says his first job after leaving school was winding coils in a factory.
“My 1st job was coil winding in a factory”
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Paul McCartney says John and George came to the factory to tell him they had a gig at the Cavern.
“So I went out and they said, we've got a gig, we've got a gig at the Cavern.”
Paul McCartney says the coil-winding job paid seven pounds fifteen shillings a week and he considered it before accepting a gig with John and George.
“I looked at the coils, I looked at the pay packet seven pounds fifteen a week”
Paul McCartney says George Harrison was about a year and a half younger than him, and that he was about a year and a half younger than John Lennon.
“I think like about one and a half, and I was one and a half years younger than John.”
Paul McCartney says Sam Taylor-Wood directed a film about the Beatles' youth in which the actor playing John Lennon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, later became her husband.
“Sam Taylor Wood did a film called No Boy and um, the John character, who she later married”
Paul McCartney says Sam Mendes is directing a film in which Paul Mescal plays him, and that he complained about the actor's height.
“Sam Mendes is making the film, I said, Sam, I've got just one thing I I need to say to you”
Paul McCartney says the Beatles played in not very nice little clubs in Hamburg before gaining fame.
“So we were out in Hamburg, schlepping around, playing, um, you know, at not very nice little clubs.”
Paul McCartney says he teaches a songwriting class each year at LIPA, the Liverpool school he and George Harrison attended.
“I do a class in my old school that me and George went to in Liverpool.”
Paul McCartney says 'Days We Left Behind' is a song on his new album 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'.
“And on Dungeon Lane, there's a there's a song, um, called Days we left behind, which is special for me.”
Paul McCartney says Queen Elizabeth II was crowned when he was eleven, and he describes her as about 23 at that time.
“She was crowned, um, when I was eleven, so and she was a babe, you know, when w I was eleven, she was like 23 or something”
Paul McCartney says the sword used at his knighting was the sword of Edward the Confessor.
“Yeah, I mean, British history, there was a king called Edward the Confessor. At least it wasn't Ethelred the Unready.”
Paul McCartney says he and Linda met Chrissie Hynde at Air Studios in London, where several studios were in use.
“a recording studio in London, where, um, Air London it was called, and there were a lot of studios.”
Paul McCartney says he and Linda McCartney shared strict vegetarianism with Chrissie Hynde.
“And we had a lot of stuff in common. She's like, uh, crazy vegetarian, so we had that in common.”
Paul McCartney says he met George Harrison on a double-decker bus to school, where Paul boarded one stop before George.
“I used to get on one stop, these big D double decker green buses.”
Paul McCartney says a song on a John Lennon album, 'Down South', is about how Paul and George met on the school bus.
“there's one song called Down South, and it's, uh, it's about how we met, uh, on, you know, the school bus.”
Paul McCartney says he recommended George Harrison to John Lennon when the group needed another guitarist.
“I put George up and I sort of said, I've got this little mate, you know, he's little.”
Paul McCartney says Stella McCartney was born by cesarean section because of placenta previa and spent time in an incubator.
“But it meant that, uh, Stella had to be in an incubator and she was little.”
Paul McCartney says he was born at Walton Hospital in Liverpool, a Victorian building, and that he was a forceps birth.
“I was born in a place in Liverpool called Walton Hospital, which was a real old Victorian thing.”
Paul McCartney says 'Monkberry Moon Delight' came from his children's word 'monk' for milk, imagining a milkshake.
“when the kids were little, you know how kids don't always, can't pronounce certain words well, uh, the word for milk was monk”
Paul McCartney says Lorne Michaels went on Saturday Night Live and offered the Beatles $3,000 to perform, a joke offer that the show's viewers saw.
“it was around that time when Lorne had come on and offered us $3,000 to to perform.”