Thanks for sharing that, Kelley; I hadn't known. I've always admired Paul's father: Grieving your wife and then raising two little boys on your own could NOT have been easy.
Indeed. I’ve never seen any footage of Mr. McCartney but he always looks calm and steady in his photos. Paul clearly adored him and there isn’t a better measure of a father, in my opinion. I love Paul’s anecdote from Barry Miles’ book
All Those Years Ago:
“We sat in there one evening, just beavering away while my dad was watching TV and smoking his Players cigarettes, and we wrote ‘She Loves You’. We actually finished it there because we’d started it in the hotel room. We went into the living room – ‘Dad, listen to this. What do you think?” So we played it to my dad and he said, ‘That’s very nice, son, but there’s enough of these Americanisms around. Couldn’t you sing, “She loves you. Yes! Yes! Yes!”‘ At which point we collapsed in a heap and said, ‘No, Dad, you don’t quite get it!’ That’s my classic story about my dad. For a working-class guy that was rather a middle-class thing to say, really. But he was like that.”
