McCartney Weds in Ireland

Paul McCartney married Heather Mills today at a castle in rural Glaslough, Ireland. The marriage is the second for both the fifty-nine-year-old former Beatle, whose wife of twenty-nine years Linda died in 1998, and Mills, a thirty-four-year-old former model.

The ceremony took place at 4:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (11:00 a.m. ET), and bells ringing inside the Protestant chapel on the castle grounds at 5:20 announced that vows had been exchanged.

The couple met in 1999 at a charity function hosted by Mills, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident and now raises money for children disabled in war, and became engaged in 2001.

Three hundred family members and friends -- including fellow former Beatle Ringo Starr, the band's producer Sir George Martin, Eric Clapton, Elton John and David Gilmour -- attended the nuptials.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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