Hoisted out of the material history of the Beatles’ first hit records, we’re plunged into a psychological portrait of two men ...

For more on Macca’s relationship with the violin bass, check out our history of Paul McCartney and the Höfner 500/1 bass guitar.

Brian Ray has spent the last 23 years as a member of Paul McCartney’s band, playing bass and guitar — so who better to assess Macca’s musicianship? In the new issue of Guitar World magazine ...

John Lennon's gravelly, strident vocals, Ringo Starr's relentless drumming, and Paul McCartney's smooth-as-silk bass line created a hypnotic groove ... a surreal piece awash in avant-garde production ...

Convening at Abbey Road to begin making Tomorrow Never Knows at 8pm on April 6th 1966, the foundations of the track were - as Paul recalled in the Beatles ... Locking in with Starr’s beat, McCartney’s ...

It was during this period that we saw Paul McCartney try some of his more complex ideas, and rather than use a range of effects, he just wrote a more complicated melody, knowing that it wouldn’t need ...

In an alternate timeline maybe we would have had a different Beatles lineup, as Paul McCartney was initially reluctant to takeover the bass guitar duties. The original Beatles lineup also included ...

As their sound evolved in the second half of the 1960s and they began to experiment with new techniques ... that Paul is heard on the original rhythm track containing bass and drums" and music ...

One significant asset was Geoff Emerick, the young engineer from Abbey Road Studios who McCartney invited to Lagos to engineer the album. Emerick’s groundbreaking recording techniques ... and Paul ...

George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney ... gets an irrepressible charge from McCartney’s novel fuzz bass sound. Harrison’s sitar on “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” which ...

It’s sometimes easy to overlook Paul McCartney’s monumental impact ... when the group were known as The Silver Beetles, McCartney played electric guitar. He would, of course, eventually switch to the ...