Paul McCartney is 80 years old tomorrow June 18th
Scouser council estate boy done well .. a musical genius in many genres, over many decades and it's very unlikely we will see another like him in our lifetimes.
A proper National Treasure
Happy Birthday Paul, and many more to come
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A man at his age who has possibly forgotten a little bit about music, but what he has forgotten would be enough for a whole career for about ten other artists.
Not a term that ought to be bandied around too loosely, but Paul McCartney is a musical genius.
Personally not my number one favourite musical genius, but an awesome artist.
Paul McCartney was my first ever 'musical hero.'
While other kids were listening to The Jam, Madness, Blondie, Adam Ant etc in the early eighties, I was a member of the 'Paul McCartney fan club.' Every month / three months, I'd receive an envelope containing stickers, badges etc and a magazine called 'Ram' (like his 2nd post Beatles album).
The music at that time was great (I listen to it still now) but back then I listened more to The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who etc. I was an eighties kid living musically in the 60s until about 1983 when Howard Jones arrived and woke me up to new synthesized sounds. I have to say that Paul didn't really grasp that opportunity to craft pop songs in the manner of OMD, Human League, New Order etc.
I loved The Beatles and still do. John Lennon's death was probably the catalyst for this. His death was a huge shock to the nation and I'm not sure that Paul's will be the same but it should be. He is arguably the greatest songwriter of the 20th Century.
Behave, Sir Paul is a legend, and is headlining The Pyramid Stage Saturday at Glastonbury..he still has it..
But if he wants to carry on touring, he should. And if he keeps filling out tens-of-thousand-seat venues, then there's probably enough people who think he should too.
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