What a life! With the Beatles, he made music history and continues to captivate millions of fans to this day. Paul McCartney's life is marked by countless successes, but also by tragedies and setbacks. The English musician, singer/songwriter, painter, and composer became globally known as the singer and bassist of the Beatles, for whom he wrote most of the songs alongside John Lennon. Lennon/McCartney are considered the most successful songwriting duo in the history of pop music. However, the Beatles were only part of his musical career. Whether with the Wings project in the seventies, with duet partners like Michael Jackson, or as a solo artist: McCartney established himself over the decades as the most successful living composer of pop music. His legendary "Yesterday" is the most played pop song of all time. Peter Ames Carlin primarily seeks to explore this in his McCartney biography.