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- Born: Sep 29, 1909
- Died: Oct 31, 1956
My father’s family was old, from Everton, a family of seven kids, and they were pretty poor. There were seven kids. So they were quite poor. But I never remember them saying they ever went without a meal or ever went hungry. Which probably means they might have once or twice. My family started off like that, and when my dad was fourteen, he became a cotton salesman. But the thing about my family, I think, that made it slightly not as working class as the others, was the aspirations of my mom, who was a nurse and always wanted us to talk nicely. I used to make fun of her, a fact that I regret to this day because she died when I was fourteen. And I know what she meant, but then being a little bit of a … My mom always especially wanted me to be a doctor.
Paul McCartney – From “All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, 2024
