![]() He has said that he considers retiring a prelude to expiring.īorn in Liverpool in 1942, James Paul McCartney lost his mother, Mary, when he was 14 – an experience that strengthened his bond with the similarly bereaved John Lennon. Next weekend he will headline Glastonbury for the second time, seven days after his 80 th birthday. He recently released a quasi-memoir, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, and embarked on yet another stadium tour. Five decades later, he is still forging ahead. He knew better than any of them what an irreplaceably precious thing they had together. Sometimes this made him a pain but, as Get Back illustrates, a necessary pain. More driven and more cautious than the others, he became a kind of parent and taskmaster. “He used to be the one to get things moving,” Starr said after the band’s break-up in 1970. The song they are merrily ignoring is Let It Be. In this particular scene he’s at the piano, guiding the band through a hymn-like new number while his fiancée Linda Eastman chats to Yoko Ono in the foreground. John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are at best semi-detached but McCartney is grafting away, writing from scratch songs good enough to make them believe in the band again. ![]() It’s another day in Twickenham studios, where McCartney is single-handedly wrestling the Beatles into recording a new album. T here’s a lovely scene in Peter Jackson’s recent documentary The Beatles: Get Back that sums up the taken-for-granted brilliance of Paul McCartney.
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