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   BILL HARRY. THE PAUL MCCARTNEY ENCYCLOPEDIA

Kahne, David

An American record producer, the A&R head of Warner Brothers Records, who has worked on albums with a range of artists including Tony Bennett, the Bangles, Fishbone, Sugar Ray and Sublime. Paul chose him to produce his Driving Rain album in 2001.

Commenting on the album, Kahne said, 'It's a more aggressive record, definitely. It's got real energetic guitar songs. They're all orig inal and there's a lot of power there. I think he really loved doing that because he hadn't done it in a while.'

Kaleidoscope

A BBC Radio 4 programme. Paul went to Broadcasting House on Monday 16 September 1991 to be interviewed live on the programme discussing Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. Parts of the programme were repeated later that day.

Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey

A medley which Paul sang, utilising Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's 'Kansas City' and Little Richard's belter 'Hey Hey Hey'. The Beatles recorded the track for the Beatles For Sale album on 18 October 1964. Recalling the session, Paul said, 'John always used to egg me on. He used to say, "Come on, Paul, knock the shit out of 'Kansas City'," just when the engineers thought they had a vocal they could handle.'

The number 'Kansas City' was originally known as 'K.C. Loving' and had originally been a single by Little Willie Littlefield in December 1952. Under his real name of Richard Penniman, Little Richard had penned 'Hey Hey Hey' and he recorded the two songs as a medley in 1959, which is what inspired the Beatles to add the number in their repertoire.

A live version of the number lasting 3 minutes and 54 seconds was recorded live in Kansas City on 31 May 1993 and included on the Paul Is Live album.

Karate Chaos

A number recorded during Wings' sessions for Venus And Mars, and inspired by Geoff Britton, Wings drummer and a karate champion. However, Geoff left the group during the recording sessions for the album and was replaced by Joe English, which is probably why this number was never released.

Keep Coming Back To Love

A number written by Paul and Hamish Stuart and recorded at The Mill At Hog Hill Studios in Paul's Sussex home during the Off The Ground sessions in 1992. Julian Mendelsohn produced it. The song was five minutes in length.

Keep Under Cover

First recorded as a studio demo at Park Gate Studios, Sussex in August 1980, the number was eventually recorded during sessions in Montserrat on 7 and 8 December 1980 when Stanley Clarke added bass to the track. It was included on the Pipes Of Peace album.

Kellys, The

A husband and wife domestic team who Paul hired when he moved into Cavendish Avenue. Mrs Kelly was the housekeeper and her husband acted as butler and manservant.

Paul had never employed a housekeeper before and had engaged her as an experiment.

They were a live-in couple who worked for Paul for two years, but he had to fire them in January 1967 when they sold their story of life at Cavendish Avenue to an Australian magazine.

However, Paul did provide her with a handwritten reference, which read:

'Mrs Kelly worked for me and was a very capable and trustworthy housekeeper. She is an excellent cook and generally very efficient.

'Paul McCartney.'

She sold the reference in 1993 for £250.

At the time, Paul was to say, 'Mr and Mrs Kelly are looking for another place and I'm getting another couple to replace them. There have been disagreements over the running of the household. I haven't asked them to leave instantly because that would be unrea sonable.'

A Mr and Mrs Mills replaced them.

Kenwright, Bill

A major West End theatrical producer, Bill attended Liverpool Institute at the same time as Paul. He commented: 'I first knew Paul when we travelled on the same bus to school. He always used to wear a big over coat with a huge fur collar. We were both keen on acting and on one occasion were both in crowd scenes in a school production of Saint Joan.'

Bill briefly flirted with a career as a singer before turning to acting; he appeared in the TV soap Coronation Street before becoming successful as a theatrical producer.

Kicked Around No More

A number recorded during the Off The Ground sessions which was later used as an extra track on a Hope Of Deliverance CD.

King, Larry

The famous host of CNN's Larry King Live. King interviewed Paul and Heather for an hour on 12 June 2001.

Commenting on the current music scene, Paul said, 'I like some of the Eminem stuff because it's kind of clever. I like the rhythm, I like the attitude, and I can imagine if I was a young kid now, I'd like that.' On his musical heroes, he noted, 'Little Richard is fantastic, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, all of them. And then the next wave was Motown, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson and Nat King Cole.'

Mentioning the Beatles, he said, 'People say, "Are you going to reunite?" and stuff like that. But for me, if we were on stage, the three of us, there'd be someone missing. I'd look over there and there'd be someone missing and that'd be John.'

On his relationship with Yoko Ono he said, 'We don't get along. But some people you may be destined to not become great buddies with. So it's not that we don't get along, just we don't talk much. We talk if we have to. I don't ring up and say: "Hey, Yoko, what's happening, babe?" We don't do that.'

He mentioned his book Blackbird Singing, and a poem he'd written when thinking about John Lennon, '"Here Today" is a song I wrote after John died. I was just thinking about him and remembering the good times and not so good times and having an imaginary conversa tion with him. What happened was that on the day that John got shot, there was this horror that someone we loved could just be mown down. At the end of the day, after all the tears and all the newscasts and all the pundits, who said: "John Lennon was ..." and I'd really said nothing, the phrase that came to me was "jerk of all jerks". So I ended up writing a poem about it.'

Paul was to create an image of King that he included in his exhibi tions of paintings, prints and photographs.

For his portrait of Larry King, Paul snapped pictures of King during his interview with him on the Larry King Live show, using his wrist-watch camera. The original photographic print was used as one of 28 deliberately grainy shots that appeared on the cover of Paul's Driving Rain album, released in November 2001.

Paul then turned the image into a portrait in its own right by enlarging the print several times and painting a wash of light colour over it.

King's Dock

A site in Liverpool, near to the famed Pier Head and Liver Buildings, where Paul performed a historic concert on Thursday 18 June 1990 as part of his World Tour.

A press release regarding the appearance was issued on 23 May headed: 'Paul McCartney Announces UK "Thank You" Shows'.

It read:

Paul McCartney is going home to Liverpool with his record-breaking world tour - as a personal 'thank you' to the people he says 'are so special to me'.

Paul is to stage the biggest rock show ever seen on Merseyside, taking a massive 240ft-wide, lOOft-high stage to his home town on Thursday 28 June. His 140-minute show will feature 15 Beatles songs and new material especially for Liverpool.

It will be the first time in 11 years that Paul - currently on an all-sold-out, year-long tour - will have played in the city that matters so much to him.

In the same week, Paul will also play in another of his favourite towns, Glasgow, on Saturday 23 June.

'It's all a home-coming for me,' Paul said today.

'There's just certain cities in the world that you try to play because the people there are so special.

'I've travelled everywhere but I've never found anyone to beat the people I grew up with. Obviously, Liverpool means a lot to me and the people there always will do. But we always had a great welcome in towns like Glasgow too.

'It's because of the people, they're working-class people and they are the sort I get off on - they're canny lads and I can relate to 'em.'

Paul had initially planned to play Liverpool and Glasgow earlier in the year, when his World Tour did a record-breaking eleven shows at London's Wembley Arena, but he was unhappy that the only venues available were too small.

The people from Liverpool and Glasgow really got behind us when I started off in this business with the Beatles. I wanted to say thank you properly to them,' he said.

'We've been taking this show all around the world, playing huge gigs, and yet it looked as if I would have to scale it all down – take out some of the lights and the video screens and special effects - to get in the halls available in Liverpool and Glasgow at the time.

'And that would have been disappointing to me, I didn't want to take this really big gig across America and then do a crummy little show in Liverpool.'

It was Paul who personally found the open-air Liverpool site for the critically-acclaimed show that last month set a new rock and roll attendance record - when Paul played to 180,000 fans at Rio De Janeiro's Maracana Stadium.

He drove around Liverpool and spotted the ideal site for the new show - the arena, King's Dock, Liverpool. The Glasgow gig -at the Arena, Scottish Exhibition Centre, Queen's Dock - is a similar open-air venue. Both shows are supported by TDK.

'Both shows are by the water, which I like. Both shows are by docks, which used to fascinate me as a kid, and both should be a good laff,' he said.

'I'm really looking forward to seeing all those fans again - for me it's Get Back to Glasgow and Let It Be Liverpool.'

Paul last played Liverpool in November 1979, during Wings' last UK tour.

For this new show, the McCartney band will be Linda and Paul, 'Wix' Wickens on keyboards, Robbie Mclntosh and Hamish Stuart on guitars and Chris Whitten on drums.

'They're a fairly silly lot and that's one of the attractions of going out on the road with this group, because we have a good time. It's a bit of a party,' said Paul.

McCartney has insisted that the ticket prices be kept to a real istic level and he will be donating money from the shows to local charities.

In Liverpool, profits from the show will go to: Alder Hey Hospital's 75th Birthday Appeal, The Women & Children's Aid Centre, Kids In Need & Distress (KIND), The Netherley Youth Trust, Sunnybank Appeal (The Marie Curie Hospital), the Merseyside Play Action Group (MPAG) and Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA).

In Glasgow, a substantial donation will be shared between: The Yorkhill Children's Trust for sick children, Scottish Women's Aid for battered wives, The Simon Community for the homeless and destitute and Scotcare - a consortium of charities that incorporate helping family conciliation, alcoholics, single parents, marriage guidance and victim support schemes.

'It's just my way of giving a little back,' Paul commented.

There was a press conference backstage at the King's Dock prior to the Liverpool concert, which began at 5.30 p.m.

Mark Featherstone-Witty took the stage to announce the campaign

for the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and was followed by Vicky Roberts, chairperson of the Finance and Strategy Committee to confirm that the City Council had approved plans to make the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts a reality.

George Martin then appeared, saying, 'This is where it all began.' He expressed his support for LIPA and said, 'Music, like love, is a human emotion. Paul and the other boys knocked the world sideways back then. Congratulations, Liverpool... do it again!'

He then introduced Paul, who began to answer questions from the press.

When asked how he felt being back in Liverpool thirty years on, he replied, 'I'm here often. It's just another visit. But to actually be playing is unbelievable. Great.' When he was asked about the John Lennon memorial concert which had taken place on the King's Dock on 5 May that year, he squirmed slightly, said he sent a video to it 'because John was a mate' but talking of the memorial concert itself he said, 'I think John might not have liked it.'

There were numerous questions about the tour, his family, LIPA and the fact that the Yale Bowl concert was cancelled. Paul said, 'I won't go anyplace where I'm not wanted. Yale University was a choice, but too many people in the city didn't want the noise.'

During the concert, which was attended by 50,000 people, Paul performed a John Lennon medley of 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Help!' and 'Give Peace a Chance', the first time he had ever done so and the first time he'd performed a solo Lennon composition in public.

Seventy-five minutes of the concert performance was transmitted on BBC Radio One on 27 October. Film of the concert was included in the documentary 'From Rio To Liverpool' and also in the Disney Channel documentary 'Paul McCartney - Going Home'.

Following the show, Paul hosted a reception backstage at the concert and the 150 guests included George Martin, Mike McCartney and family and various friends, relatives and media personnel.

Kingdome, The

The venue in Seattle, Washington where Wings appeared on Thursday 10 June 1976 before an audience of 67,053 people. This created a world record for a single act. Prior to the show, Paul was filmed during an interview for 'Monday Night Special', a TV show which then aired on Monday 14 June 1976. The Kingdome concert was filmed and part of the performance is included in the 1980 film Rockshow. Footage from this concert was also shown on Good Night America on Wednesday 28 June 1976 when Geraldo Rivera interviewed Paul; the clips from the Kingdome concert were 'Band On The Run' and 'Yesterday'.

Paul made his final appearance at the Kingdome on Thursday 29 March 1990 when he opened the sixth leg of his World Tour there. He arrived in Seattle on Wednesday 28 March and held a press conference the following day. The Kingdome was demolished on 26 March 2000.

Klein, Allen

An American music entrepreneur and accountant who was president of ABKCO Industries Inc. when he became business manager for John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

The son of a poor Jewish butcher, he was born in Newark, New Jersey on 18 December 1931. He initially entered the show business world as an accountant and was hired by artists such as Bobby Darin. He also became a manager of Sam Cooke, the Shirelles and Bobby Vinton and represented several 'British Invasion' groups such as the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, the Animals and the Dave Clark Five.

Klein had a reputation for playing hardball with record companies and approached artists saying: 'Whaddya want? Money? You got it.'

Klein also arranged a deal in which the Rolling Stones received a $1,250,000 advance against 25 per cent of the wholesale price of their records - 75 cents per album. At the time the Beatles were receiving only 15 per cent in Britain and 17.5 per cent in America. Ironically, this led to Paul's becoming the first member of the Beatles to suggest that Klein should act on their behalf, although nothing came of that original suggestion.

When he read an interview Ray Coleman had conducted with John Lennon saying that Apple was going bust, Klein seized the opportunity, and contacted Apple by transatlantic call to arrange an appointment with John. A meeting was eventually arranged for Klein to meet John and Yoko at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

Ray Coleman was to say: 'When I interviewed John in January 1969, he told me that Apple was "losing £50,000 every week and if it carried on like this we'll be broke in six months." My report that went round the world's media caught the eye of Allen Klein, a New York terrier in pop management who was then encouraged into Apple by Lennon, Harrison and Starr with a brief to sharpen its activities. Paul resisted this and rebuked me for reporting John's loose-tongued admission of Apple's problems.'

The canny Klein had done his homework and at the meeting his knowledge of the Beatles impressed John, who said: 'He knew all about us and our music. I knew right away he was the man for us. I wrote to Sir Joseph Lockwood that night. I said: "Dear Sir Joe: From now on Allen Klein handles all my stuff." '

Describing that first meeting, John said: 'We were both nervous. He was nervous as shit and I was nervous as shit and Yoko was nervous. We met at the Dorchester. We went up to his room and we just went in, you know. He was all alone. He didn't have any of his helpers around, because he didn't want to do anything like that. He was nervous – you could see it in his eyes. When I saw that, I felt better. We talked to him for a few hours, and we decided that night, "He was it!" He knows the lyrics to every fuckin' song you could ever imagine from the twenties on! He not only knew my work, and the lyrics that I had written, but he also understood them, and from way back. He is a very intelligent guy. He told me what was happening with Paul and George and Ringo. He knew every damn thing about us.'

Here is Paul's version of his first meeting with Klein: 'The very first thing that made me suspicious about him was meeting him, because he is a bit of a boy. I thought, OK, and treated it ordinarily. It was nine o'clock, and we had been meeting all day, so I said: "I think I'll go home to Linda," and everybody said: "Oh no, man. How can you be so uncool? We are meeting this great guy and you are going home." I thought: He's a businessman, and you don't do business past nine o'clock at night, do you? The crunch was when we came to discuss percentages. I thought: We are big stars now, and Brian Epstein asked twenty per cent in the beginning. I even argued with him then. I said: "Twenty? I thought that managers only took ten per cent." He said: "No, it's twenty these days." So, I said: "OK, maybe I'm not very modern." But, we were pretty unknown in those days and Klein asked for the same. I said to the others: "He'll do it for five. We are big boys now." Well, I thought we had had a bit of success. So, there would be John, George and Ringo with Klein and there would be me. I would be saying: "Listen, Allen, you said that that was going to happen. Where is it now?" And he would say: "Oh, well, we can't do it today. That was two weeks ago. We could do it then." I think they were using this whole Eastman-Klein bit, and playing me off against the others.'

Yet this is in contrast to another statement he made: 'We called in Klein, which was John's idea. We needed top advice and Klein gave it to us. The people who complain against him are mostly the people who have come off second best in deals with him because he is such a good negotiator.'

John Lennon was to say: 'Paul's criticisms of Allen Klein may reflect his dislike of the man, but I don't think they are fair. Klein is certainly forceful to an extreme but he does get results. He didn't sew discord between us.'

It was the Stones who originally suggested Allen Klein to the Beatles. The London group first met him on 24 August 1965 and within four days he was co-managing the group with Andrew Loog-Oldham. Then they shed Loog-Oldham in September 1967. However, like other creative artists, they had their differences with Klein and on 30 July 1970 they informed him that neither he nor ABKCO Industries Inc., nor any other company, had any authority to negotiate contracts on their behalf in the future.

A person such as Klein, whose prime motivation seemed to be 'money' and 'litigation', didn't appear to be the sort of person to consider the creative or cultural needs of artists, which is why it was so strange that creative artists signed with him, because, in a number of cases, it ended in disaster.

Take the case of the film director Alejandro Jodorowsky. John Lennon saw his film El Topo and he was so impressed he contacted Klein to finance Jodorowsky's next film Holy Mountain. As a result, Klein acquired the rights to El Topo and Holy Mountain. This did, indeed, prove disastrous for Jodorowsky, as Klein destroyed the orig inal negatives and prevented the films being shown.

In the 1990s, Jodorowsky issued a statement headed 'Jodorowsky vs. Klein', the text of which read:

Allen Klein insists to prevent my movies from being shown. Now he's trying to bring me into a trial for having shown my movies in some festivals and pirate copies. It would be good that all the people who admire my work demand lifetime jail for Klein, under the charge of cultural murder. Killing a work of art is as monstrous as killing a human being. For 25 years Klein has prohibited the public to see 'El Topo' and 'The Holy Mountain'. He has destroyed the original negatives. It would be necessary to have a worldwide campaign against him and his crimes. Please translate this message in all possible languages and send it to as many people as you can. We will establish the existence of cultural crime against humanity. Allen Klein is a criminal, together with his accomplice lawyers. All of them deserve punishment and prison.

Paul wrote a letter to Klein because he was furious that Phil Spector had added strings, voices and horns to his number 'The Long And Winding Road'. The letter read:

In future no one will be allowed to add to or subtract from a recording of one of my songs without my permission. I had consid ered orchestrating 'The Long And Winding Road' but decided against it. I therefore want it to be altered to these specifications: 1. Strings, horns, voices and all added noises to be reduced in volume. 2. Vocal and Beatles instrumentation to be brought up in volume. 3. Harp to be removed completely at the end of the song and original piano notes substituted. 4. Don't ever do it again.

Although Paul strongly objected to Allen Klein, he was told that under his contract he would have to let him be his manager. Paul didn't want that and sought advice. He was told that he could sue Klein. 'Great, I'll sue him,' he said. Then he was told that he would also have to sue Apple.

Paul didn't want to do this and it took him two months to make up his mind. Eventually he decided to go ahead.

Paul was to describe Klein as 'nothing more than a trained New York crook'. He was able to point out that on 29 January 1971 in the US District Court, Southern District of New York, Klein was found guilty on ten counts of 'unlawfully failing to make and file returns of Federal income taxes and FICA taxes withheld from employees' wages'.

Paul was to say: 'Klein was not the exclusive reason why the Beatles broke up. We were starting to do our own things before he arrived, but it certainly helped. There were various reasons why we split. I don't think even the four of us know all the reasons, but Klein was one of the major ones.'

Paul's suspicions were vindicated on Saturday 31 March 1973, when John, George and Ringo decided not to renew his contract. Klein then issued a statement on Monday 2 April 1973, saying that his company ABKCO was severing its links with Apple and the three former Beatles. John, George and Ringo finally fired him in November of that year.

It was John Lennon, the one who originally insisted on Klein's taking over the management of the Beatles, who was to make a public state ment on Friday 6 April, when he was interviewed by John Fielding for the London Weekend Television programme Weekend World.

Fielding asked him: 'Can you tell me what happened with Allen Klein? Why did you and the other two decide finally to get rid of him?'

John replied: 'There are many reasons why we finally gave him the push, although I don't want to go into the details of it. Let's say possibly Paul's suspicions were right - and the time was right.'

In June 1973, the litigious Klein sued Apple. For John, George and Paul actually to rid themselves of Klein they had to pay him a settle ment of $4 million.

Paul's suspicions about him were further consolidated when Klein was jailed for two months in May 1979 for tax evasion relating to the income he'd derived from illegal sales of the Concert For Bangla Desh album.

Knebworth Festival

A concert that took place on Saturday 30 June 1990. There was an audi ence of 120,000 at the festival, which was in aid of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre and the Brit School for Performing Arts.

This particular concert was known as the 'Silver Clef Award Winners Show'. The charity had awarded 'silver clef awards over the years to outstanding performers of British music and it was decided to invite previous winners of the award, including Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Genesis, Eric Clapton, Elton John and Pink Floyd to appear in order to raise funds for a much needed new centre for the charity. The charity itself provided 'a way of communicating with, developing and enhancing the lives of mentally, physically and autistically handicapped children, through music'.

An album of the event was issued in which Dave Dee, in the liner notes, wrote: 'The concert sold out instantly and it became evident that our target would be exceeded. To gratefully acknowledge the support that Nordoff-Robbins has received from the music industry it was agreed that the proceeds would be shared with a new venture - The Brit School for Performing Arts - currently being established by the British Phonographic Industry Institute.

'And so to the day itself - as host for the concert, I represented Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Onstage, I was overwhelmed by the size, the appreciation and the sheer good humour of the huge audience. Offstage, I was equally impressed by the professionalism and goodwill of the artists and their crews. A magnificent show, a terrific day - one of the best of my life.'

Knebworth: The Album

Album issued by Polydor Records in Britain and America on Monday 6 August 1990 weeks after the original 30 June 1990 festival at Knebworth at which Paul had appeared. The proceeds of the album were donated to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity and the Brit School for Performing Arts. Two of the numbers from Paul's live set, 'Coming Up' and 'Hey Jude' were featured on the release, which was a double album, Polydor 843 921-1, a double-cassette, Polydor 843 921-4 and double CD, Polydor 9843 921-2. The concert was also transmitted in Britain on the ITV network on 6 August and included Paul performing four numbers, 'Coming Up', 'Birthday', 'Hey Jude' and 'Can't Buy Me Love'.

Knebworth: The Event (Volume One)

A home video of the Knebworth concert of Saturday 30 June 1990. It was issued in the UK by Castle Video (CMP 6006) on Tuesday 28 August. The video featured Paul performing four numbers, 'Coming Up', 'Birthday', 'Hey Jude' and 'Can't Buy Me Love'. Profits from the sale of the video were shared between the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity and the Brit School for Performing Arts.

Knight, Ian

A stage designer who specialises in rock shows. Ian designs the complete stage setting for bands, including the scenery, lighting and special effects. His assignments have included shows for the Who, Led Zeppelin and Wings. For the Wings shows he also designed some special backcloths, one featuring a giant-sized copy of a Rene Magritte painting to illus trate the number 'C Moon' and another the David Hockney painting of a chair which was displayed during the number 'Chair'.

Knighthood

George Martin was honoured with a knighthood when he was named in the New Year's honours list at the end of 1995. Cliff Richard also received a knighthood. Commenting on the fact that he'd been over-looked in the honours list, Paul said, 'All the Beatles are MBEs -Members of the British Empire - except John, who sent his back. It's the lowest honour you can have from Britain. George (Martin) has a higher honour than we have.

'You can't sit around saying, "God, I wish they'd make me a sir." Or, you know, "I wish they'd put me in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame." Funnily enough, in his early days, John was very much wondering how he would be remembered. I said, "You're crazy, man. What are you talking about? Number one, you'll be remembered as something fantastic. You'll be out in the cosmos somewhere."'

Paul was 54 years old when it was announced in the Queen's New Year's honours list (there were 1,035 names on the list) on Monday 30 December 1996 that he would receive a knighthood. He was abroad at the time of the announcement, but said, 'It is a fantastic honour, and I am very gratefully receiving it on behalf of all the people of Liverpool and the other Beatles - without whom it would not have been possible.

'So I hope I can be worthy of it. I would also like to thank my wife and kids and wish everyone a Happy New Year.'

On the same honours list, other Liverpool artists were named. Frankie Vaughan, already an OBE, received a CBE, Cilia Black received an OBE and Roger McGough also received an OBE.

Paul's brother Mike commented, 'It is an excellent day and absolutely deserved by all concerned. Our kid told me a while back that this was going to happen, and so did Roger, so I had to swear that I'd keep my mouth shut. Liverpool people have always had loads of talent. They are always there, and always will be.'

When the news of the New Year's honours list was first announced, the caption writers on the British national press had a field day with punny titles and headlines. The Times headed it 'A Hard Day's Knight', the Daily Mirror titled it 'Dub Me Do - Happy New Yeah Yeah Yeah', the Daily Express described Paul as a 'Hard Dazed Knight' and the headline on the Sun newspaper was 'YesSirday"

Paul arrived for the ceremony at 10.15 a.m. in a dark-blue chauffeur-driven Mercedes.

The investiture took place at Buckingham Palace at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday 11 March 1997 and lasted approximately two and a half hours. Linda was too ill to attend and his children, James, Stella and Mary, accompanied Paul. Paul was initially briefed on protocol before entering the Palace ballroom into the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. He knelt in front of the Queen who placed King George VI's sword first on his right shoulder, then the left, dubbing him with the title 'Sir Paul'.

After the ceremony, wearing his black morning suit, he went to the Palace quadrangle to pose for photographs and addressed the gathered reporters, saying, 'Today is fantastic, there is a blue sky and it's spring time. My mum and dad would have been extremely proud - and perhaps they are.

'I would never have dreamed of this day. If we'd had that thought when we started off in Liverpool it would have been laughed at as a complete joke. Proud to be British. A wonderful day. It's a long way from a little terrace in Liverpool.'

He was asked if he'd spoken to any of the other Beatles about it and he said, 'Yep. They make fun of me. They keep ringing me up and calling me "your holiness", but they're having a good time. It seems strange being here without the other three. I keep looking over my shoulder for them.'

Linda was at home in Cavendish Avenue with her daughter Heather and the reporters asked after her health. Paul said, 'She's doing fine, thanks. We drew straws, 'cos we could only get three tickets. So I've got my three youngest kids with me.'

He was asked again about Linda's state of health and said, 'Linda is fine. She's doing very well. I would have loved my whole family to have been here, but as we only had three guest tickets, Linda and Heather decided to stay out of the limelight today.'

Paul left the Palace at 12.45 p.m.

Knite, Hilda

A former midwife at Walton Hospital where Paul was born. She became a midwife in 1936 and retired in 1965.

As a senior midwife at Walton Hospital she helped to deliver both Paul and his brother Mike into the world.

She was to say, 'Paul and Mike's mother was one of my pupils and I trained her to be a midwife. She came back to have her babies at Walton Hospital.

'I used to take most of the ex-staff on my small block. I remember Paul had to be delivered by a doctor because it was a tricky delivery.'

At a celebration at the hospital in 1997, anyone who was born on the same day as Paul was presented with a special certificate.

Knoc-Turn'al

A Los Angeles rapper. In 2002 Paul allowed him to use the Wings track 'Old Siam Sir' on his single 'Musik.' Initially, Paul wasn't going to allow him to use the sample. Knoc said: 'But, when he heard it and realised it was a positive song, he cleared it. So I just explain that to them in the song. I think Paul appreciate that, because he understands that he sacri ficed a lot, seeing that he's been here for thirty-five, almost forty years.'

Kramer, Billy J

A singer, born William Ashton in Bootle, Liverpool, who was signed up by Brian Epstein. His original Liverpool band, the Coasters, wouldn't turn professional and as Epstein couldn't convince another Liverpool band, the Remo Four, to back him, he engaged a Manchester outfit, the Dakotas, to be his backing band.

Together with the Dakotas, Kramer recorded four Lennon and McCartney numbers, three of them written by Paul. His first number was the John Lennon composition 'Do You Want To Know A Secret?' which was released in the UK on 26 April 1963 and replaced the Beatles 'From Me To You' at the top of the British charts. The flipside was Paul's composition 'I'll Be On My Way'.

John's 'Bad To Me' was specifically written for Kramer, with another Lennon composition, 'I Call Your Name' on the flipside. His next release was the Paul composition 'I'll Keep You Satisfied'. Paul also penned his next single, 'From A Window', which was released in the UK on 17 July 1964.

Kramer didn't accept everything John and Paul gave him and had originally turned down Paul's 'A World Without Love', which became a chart-topper for Peter and Gordon. One number, mainly written by Paul, which he recorded but never released, was 'One And One Is Two'. Kramer was unhappy with the number and when John Lennon told him, 'Release that and your career is over,' he decided not to release it. The number was then recorded by Mike Shannon & the Strangers, but failed to make any impact on the charts.

When Kramer was searching for another hit he approached Paul and asked him if he had a song for him to record. Paul offered him 'Yesterday', but Billy turned it down, as he didn't think it was suitable for him.

Kreen Akrore

The final track on Paul's solo debut album McCartney lasting 4 minutes and 8 seconds. Paul was to comment, 'There was a film on TV about the Kreen-Akrore Indians living in the Brazilian jungle, and how the white man is trying to change their way of life. The next day, after lunch, I did some drumming. The idea behind it was to get the feeling of their hunt. The end of the first section had Linda and I doing animal noises (speeded up) and an arrow sound (done live with bow and arrow - the bow broke), then animals stampeding across a guitar case. We built a fire in the studio but didn't use it (but used the sound of the twigs breaking).'

Paul recorded the song at Morgan Studios, aided by engineer Robin Black.

Kumbh Mela

The world's largest religious gathering. The festival takes place each decade and lasts for 42 days during which devotees wash away their sins at the point where the holy rivers the Ganges and Yamuna converge. The 2001 gathering attracted 30 million people.

Paul and Heather Mills attended the festival, booking into the Tony Maurya Hotel, New Delhi on 9 January 2001 at the invitation of the sitar virtuoso Nishat Khan. It was reported that the couple stayed in their room for most of the visit.

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