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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day in October 1972, Paul McCartney received a phone call from Ron Kass, head of Apple Records. McCartney liked Kass and they ...

McCartney’s performance at Live Aid was made all the more special given that he hadn’t played live since John Lennon was murdered five years prior. According to Geldof, McCartney was “scared stiff” to ...

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