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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Aaron Curran

Paul McCartney's brother says he could have had a very different job

Paul McCartney's brother, photographer and songwriter Mike McCartney claimed the Beatles may not have existed and they both could have been doctors.

Their mum Mary died in October 1956, after a battle with breast cancer. Mike said the world may have been without the Liverpool quartet if their mother had lived. The origins of the Fab Four date back to 1957, when Paul met a young John Lennon by chance at a church fete at St. Peter's Church in Liverpool.

Speaking to the ECHO, Mike McCartney explained how the guidance from their mother may have meant him and brother Paul would have followed more educational routes. He joked: "You'd be speaking to Dr McCartney now, or she was a Catholic so maybe it would be Father McCartney."

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