ANOTHER HIT? SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY WILL UNVEIL NEW SONG AS HE SERENADES WIFE NANCY SHEVELL AT THEIR WEDDING TODAY
He's constantly being referred to as being one of the best songwriters of all time.
And Paul McCartney's new wife Nancy Shevell will be the subject of what may be another top 10 hit as he serenades her at their wedding today.
The former Beatle, who is getting married on what would have been his songwriting partner John Lennon's 71st birthday, will unveil the song at the reception in the garden of his north London home.
He will also sing the iconic Let It Be, which he wrote for the Beatles, and Let Me Roll It, which he wrote for his band Paul McCartney & Wings, reported the Daily Record.
He apparently sang Let It Be to Nancy during one of their first holidays together in Morocco three years ago.
The second song was picked because it is American heiress Nancy’s favourite and contains the lyric: 'You gave me loving in the palm of my hand.'
The couple, who boast a combined fortune of £700 million, will marry in a low-key ceremony in front of just 30 guests at Marylebone Register Office — where Sir Paul married Linda in March 1969.
Sources close to the star also say he will lovingly refer to Linda — mother of three of his grown-up children — who died from breast cancer in 1998.
But there will be no mention of his second wife, Heather Mills, whom he divorced acrimoniously in 2008, despite their daughter Beatrice, seven, acting as bridesmaid.
Yesterday, Paul and Nancy, 51, who is Jewish, visited the Liberal Jewish Synagogue near his home in St John's Wood, to mark Yom Kippur.
The couple left the singer's home in a chauffeur-driven Lexus just before 5pm, with Sir Paul winding down his window to say: 'Hi guys. Thanks for coming. We're looking forward to it. See you guys.'
A spokesman at Marylebone Town Hall confirmed just one service will take place there today, while a source added: 'You wouldn't be far wrong to assume the whole venue has been booked.' The service, to be conducted by Superintendent Registrar Alison Cathcart, will cost £1,540.
The couple are expected to exchange rings from Los Angeles jeweller Neil Lane, before returning to Sir Paul's home for the reception.
Yesterday, final preparations were getting under way at the house before the arrival of guests who are expected to include Sir Paul's five children — adopted eldest daughter Heather from Linda's first mar¬riage, photographer Mary, fashion designer Stella, son James, and youngest daughter Beatrice.
A marquee had been erected on the drive of the three-storey detached property, which is hidden from the street by a 6ft wall, while an awning had been erected on the pavement at the gates to the property.
Two van loads of flowers, including pastel coloured roses and white hydrangeas, were delivered and bottles of champagne could be seen in a fridge next to the marquee, while more vans delivered furniture including around 100 steel chairs and ten drinks tables with mirrored glass surfaces.
The proceedings are in stark contrast to the £1.5 million Sir Paul spent on his wedding to Heather Mills in 2003 in front of 300 guests at Castle Leslie in Ireland.
That was followed by an elaborate reception which included a vegetarian banquet.
Then, Sir Paul was reported to have spent tens of thousands of pounds on 300 bottles of vintage Cristal and Laurent Perrier, costing £180 a time.
But yesterday, fridges were being loaded with a far cheaper option — non-vintage Dumangin Grande Reserve champagne costing £26.50 a bottle.
The brand is little-known in the UK but was described by one critic last year as 'delicious, rare and delectable' and 'good value for money'.
Workmen carrying tools including a spirit level arrived at the property in a van from the firm Momart, which specialises in transporting fine art. One said they had been asked to hang paintings, including works by Picasso and some of Sir Paul's own work.
After the celebrations the newlyweds are expected to fly to America to mark their nuptials with a second gathering at the Hamptons, the exclusive seaside enclave two hours from New York where they both own homes.
The move mirrors Sir Paul's wedding to Linda in 1969 when they flew to New York to visit her family.
Miss Shevell, a family friend of Sir Paul and Linda, is vice president of her family's transport firm and has a 19-year-old son, Arlen, from her 24-year marriage to first husband Bruce Blakeman.
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EX-BEATLE MCCARTNEY TO SERENADE HEIRESS BRIDE
Former Beatle Paul McCartney marries American heiress Nancy Shevell in London on Sunday and will serenade her with a song written in her honor, media reports say.
McCartney will wed the divorced New Yorker in a civil ceremony at London's Marylebone Register Office before 30 invited guests, ahead of a reception in his back garden in north London, the reports say.
The 69-year-old singer-songwriter, whose success in writing some of the world's most enduring pop classics with the Beatles has helped him to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, is marrying for the third time.
He and Shevell, 51, posted wedding banns last month in the same place where McCartney married his late first wife Linda in 1969, at the height of the Beatles' fame. Linda died of breast cancer in 1998. His second marriage, to former model Heather Mills, ended in acrimonious divorce in 2008.
A fridge filled with champagne was delivered on Saturday to the house in the upmarket neighborhood of St John's Wood -- within a stone's throw of the Abbey Road studio where the Beatles recorded most of their albums.
The couple went to a local synagogue where Shevell, who is Jewish, received a blessing, before dining at a floating Chinese restaurant with family and friends.
McCartney's spokesman declined comment on Saturday, but McCartney himself briefly spoke to reporters outside his home, saying: "Hi guys, thanks for coming out. We're looking forward to it."
Asked if he was nervous about the big day, McCartney laughed and said: "Don't be silly, now. Of course not," according to the Sunday Mirror.
The choice of wedding date seemed especially poignant as Sunday would have been the 71st birthday of John Lennon, McCartney's songwriting partner, who was gunned down in New York in 1980.
As well as the new song, he plans to sing "Let it Be," which he sang to Shevell on one of their first holidays together three years ago, and then her favorite, "Let Me Roll It," according to the Sunday Mirror.
McCartney's fashion-designer daughter Stella made Shevell's dress and helped create the three-course organic vegetarian menu, the paper reported.
McCartney has a son, two daughters and a stepdaughter from his marriage to Linda, and a daughter from his marriage to Mills.
All his children will be at the wedding, and his brother will be best man, the Mirror said, adding that the couple would honeymoon in the Caribbean.
(Bron: reuters.com)
