Mike McGear

Mike McGear, 2004

Peter Michael McCartney (born January 7, 1944 in Liverpool , United Kingdom ), known as Mike McGear , is a British musician. He is the younger brother of Paul McCartney .

Career

He had been using the pseudonym Mike McGear since the mid-1960s in order not to appear to be swimming in the wake of his famous brother's success. Under this pseudonym he formed the band The Scaffold together with John Gorman and the poet Roger McGough . This had some single successes in the 1960s and early 1970s such as Thank you very much , the No. 1 hit Lily the Pink , Charity Bubbles , Do the Albert and Liverpool Lou .

In the mid-1970s, he joined Gorman and McGough in the Grimms project. Other members of the Grimms came from the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and the Liverpool Scene.

Discography

• 1968 - McGough & McGear (with Roger McGough)
• 1972 - Woman
• 1974 - McGear (collaboration with brother Paul McCartney)

Singles (if not included on albums):

• 1976 - Do Nothing all Day / A to Z
• 1976 - with Roger McGough as "The Bashers": Womble Bashers / Womble Bashers Wock
• 1980 - All the Whales in the Ocean / I just Want what You Got: Money
• 1981 - No Lar Di Dar / God Save the Gracious Queen

As a member of The Scaffold:

• 1968 - Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
• 1969 - L the P
• 1973 - Fresh Liver
• 1975 - Sold Out
• 1998 - The Scaffold at Abbey Road

As a member of Grimms:

• 1973 - Grimms
• 1973 - Rockin 'Duck

bibliography

• Thank U very much. Mike McCartney's family album , London: Weidenfeld, 1981; New editions 1982 ff. (Autobiographical collage)
• Mike Mac's Whites & Blacks , London: Aurum, 1986 (own photographic art)