Good News Wednesday

Vernon hears your positive stories for Good News Wednesday, there's a visit to the BBC Archive in Vernon's Vault and two listeners play our mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top.

Plus two more Tracks Of My Years selections from the legendary Paul McCartney, who is our guest all this week on the show. Today, he has stories about his love of Buddy Holly and going to visit Elvis Presley.

Born in Liverpool in 1942, Sir Paul McCartney began playing music at an early age, teaching himself Spanish guitar, trumpet and piano and writing the song When I’m Sixty-Four by the age of 16. In 1957, he met John Lennon and was invited to join John’s band The Quarrymen, who by 1960 had become The Beatles. They became one of the most influential bands of the time and Paul wrote a huge number of their songs including Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be and Yesterday to name just a few. After releasing twelve studio albums, they disbanded in 1970, and Paul began a solo career with the self-titled album McCartney that year. He has continued recording music and touring ever since, with a brand new album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, his first in over five years, out on 29th May.

You can find Vernon's full chat with Paul in Tracks Of My Years on BBC Sounds, and watch the conversation on BBC iPlayer, just search for 'Tracks Of My Years'.

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