Paul McCartney  was born on June 18th 1942, in Liverpool General Hospital, where his mother, Mary, was a medical nurse and midwife. His father, Jim, was a cotton salesman and a pianist leading the Jim Mac's Jazz Band in Liverpool. He studied music and art, and had a happy childhood with one younger brother, Michael. He was engaged to Dot Rhone, actress Jane Asher, and married three times to Linda Eastman, Heater Mills and Nancy Shevell. In 1979 Guinness  World Records described McCartney as "the Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs (42 with the Beatles, 17 solo and 1 with the Beatles and Billy Preston) and sales of 100 million albums, 100 million singles.