Paul McCartney made the Hofner bass guitar famous, not the other way around. Indeed, it was McCartney who made bass players cool, giving them a status in rock almost equal to that of lead guitarists.

When The Beatles needed a bassist after Stuart Sutcliffe left the band, Paul ... bass player for the Funk Brothers at Motown. On “Nowhere Man,” that influence comes to the fore as McCartney ...

At left, Lou Reed performs live on stage in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in a 1972 file photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot. At right, bassist Herbie Flowers performs in London, England, in a 1990 file photo by ...

Only to bring said friend onstage — noted legend Sir Paul McCartney of Wings fame. And the Beatles. McCartney popped in to Cole's show at the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles on Sept. 17 ...

Get to know Paul McCartney’s five kids: Heather, Mary, Stella, James and Beatrice Nicole Briese is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

Flowers recorded over 20,000 sessions and his distinctive jazz-informed bass heavily features on Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild ...

I’m still a massive fan — so much so that my husband Michael and I recently went to Liverpool, England, to see the hometown of the band’s four famous members: Lennon, Paul McCartney ...

Like so many Beatles songs, this one is credited to the writing team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney ... sequences when you took them at face value. And we know Macca was a comics fan (see ...

“He gives me a hug and he meets me, and it’s like, ‘Fuck. Paul McCartney knows who the fuck Snoop Dogg is’.” When the interviewer suggested that Snoop is equally as famous, he ...

Paul McCartney crashed Black-ish star Deon Cole’s stand-up set at the Hollywood Improv on Sept. 17 after both reportedly “got high” backstage. "I got high with my friend tonight, and we had ...