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<\/p>\nThe Beatle has reflected on his time growing up in Liverpool as a “joy”<\/p>\n
Sir Paul McCartney (Image: 2021 Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Sir Paul McCartney took fans back to his childhood sharing memories from his family life growing up in Liverpool. Sir Paul is one of the most successful and influential musicians in history but he has never strayed too far from his roots.<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Rest Is Entertainment podcast, Sir PauI recalled the earliest memories of his rich musical journey<\/a>. He said: “I wrote my first song when I was 14, and I suppose that’s when I discovered it. I remember the things that appealed to me about that song.<\/p>\n “The song was called I Lost My Little Girl. And someone pointed out to me, my mum had died not too long before that. So probably, at the back of my mind, a therapist would say that’s what this was about. But the guitar was your therapist. And the guitar was the therapist, really.”<\/p>\n Sir Paul has many invaluable memories of his mum, Mary McCartney. Mary died on October 31 1956 at the age of 47, when Sir Paul was just 14. The mum of the Beatle had been suffering from breast cancer.<\/p>\n Mary died of an embolism shortly after an operation<\/a> to stop the spread of the disease. She was buried on November 3 1956 at Yew Tree Cemetery on Finch Lane. Sir Paul recently shared a heartwarming memory of his mum.<\/p>\n He said: “It’s something growing up. Oh, my mum’s a midwife. And you don’t really think much beyond that. But now you think, wow, you know, just going out and delivering all these babies, and the parents being so in love with you.<\/p>\n Sir Paul McCartney during his Beatles days <\/p>\n “I mean, they would come around to our house bringing little gifts, a little statuette or something. Very cheap stuff, but just to show the gratitude. I have one big memory of her. It was in the winter, and there had been a heavy snowfall, and she got called up because we had one phone in the house.”<\/p>\n Sir Paul continued: “She got called to go to a birth and so she got on her bike, because they didn’t have cars. She got on her bike in this deep snow, with her uniform on, with a little suitcase on the back and a little basket on the front.<\/p>\n “And I have this memory, in the street lights, of her cycling out through the snow and thinking, wow, that’s pretty brave. I mean, you know, you did it. They did it.”<\/p>\n Sir Paul said that when he was growing up, there was a lot of joy. He highlighted the “character of Liverpool” being a very strong one, as he said: “I think with the Irish influence and then coming through the war, and having to be happy when bombs were falling, there was a lot of music when I was a kid.<\/p>\n “My dad played the piano at home. There were a lot of jokes. And so they kept their heads above water by laughing at the whole thing. And I think that was something that found its way into the Beatles.”<\/p>\n The Beatles following a tour of Australia(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"Sir](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_JS347369448.jpg\")
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