Paul McCartney Marries in London

Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell leave the Marylebone Registry Office after their wedding in London.

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Paul McCartney married for the third time on Sunday, exchanging vows with businesswoman and heiress Nancy Shevell in a small civil ceremony at the Marylebone Town Hall in London.  The ceremony was followed by a reception at McCartney's home, with guests including his fellow Beatle Ringo Starr, George Harrison's widow Olivia and television journalist Barbara Walters, who is Shevell's cousin. The couple have plans to throw another wedding party in New York sometime in the near future.

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McCartney, 69, was previously married to Linda Eastman from 1969 until her death from breast cancer in 1998, and to Heather Mills from 2002 until their bitter divorce in 2008. Shevell, 51, has been married once before, to lawyer and former New York State Republican senatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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