Why do people refer to Paul McCartney as “Macca”?
It was apparently a habit among the Quarrymen, the first appellation of the Beatles, to call each other by a nickname. Paul was Macca, George was Hazza, and John was Lennie. Since Ringo wasn’t with the group at this time, he missed out (though of course he was self-named “Ringo”, feeling that it sounded more western and cowboyesque than Richard, his given name.
