Detroit News
vom 27.04.1999

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Ex-Beatle gets new brush with fame

Paul McCartney has something he can fall back on if this music thing doesn't work out: He paints. Some 70 McCartney oil paintings, featuring John Lennon, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Charlie Watts and Queen Elizabeth II, are included in a show opening this weekend in Siegen, Germany. The former Beatle said he took up painting in 1982. "Until then, I had this big block in my head that only people who went to art school were allowed to paint," he said. "But when I got to 40, I realized this block was madness. I wanted to paint and the only person not allowing me a canvas was me." Among his works: The Queen Getting a Joke and The Queen After Her First Cigarette.

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