McCartney Times

“There’s two [hillside photos] of ‘em,” Mike McCartney says. “One with our dad, and one with mum. It was in Wales, and I think a relative had something to do with it, and they had a farm there, and we ended up staying there. We were only young [children], and I remember going out with the farmer. He had a shotgun, and when we would go out, he would shoot rabbits. Then, he’d bring them back for his rabbit stew and things like that.”

It’s these tiny details that make McCartney a worthy photographer, but there’s more to the man than candour and casual wit. He comes from a musical family (no doubt you’ve heard of his brother) and even embarked on a musical career for a time. Growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, McCartney witnessed the rise of rock counterculture, and in his new book, McCartney exhibits some of the pictures he captured from that exciting time. “What could go wrong?” he asks. “Have you ever heard of something called a pandemic?! For a year, I’ve been non stop working from my room on that book. Every day.” The book benefitted from the delay, but there were crashes and catastrophes along the way. “How do you produce a coffee table book from your bedroom?” he cackles. Well, McCartney managed it.

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Source: Mike McCartney, capturing a Liverpudlian side of The Beatles