Paul McCartney playing piano during an April 1972 television appearance.

Paul McCartney began writing songs in the late 1950s and hasn’t stopped since. It’s why he’s written more than 1,000 songs in his career, though the real total is probably higher. He has dozens of No. 1 hits to his name with and without The Beatles, but Paul set an unbreakable record when he wrote “Live and Let Die.”

Paul McCartney playing piano during an April 1972 television appearance.
Paul McCartney | Bettmann/Contributor

Paul McCartney set an unbreakable record with an Oscar nomination for “Live and Let Die”

There was one Beatles song Paul never wanted released (“The Long and Winding Road”), but the plan for “Live and Let Die,” his 1973 song with Wings, was always to have it go global. 

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