Sharpe's Opinion

No, Paul McCartney isn’t very good, actually

The Nameless Libertarian reckons Paul McCartney should shut up and stick to his back catalogue:

There’s something about Paul McCartney that winds me up. It isn’t his songs. Yes, he wrote The Frog Chorus. But great musicians are allowed some lapses in taste and judgement. And having written songs like Live and Let Die, Hey Jude, The Long and Winding Road and Maybe I’m Amazed more than makes up for a dodgy moment in the 1980’s – which, less face it, is when most artists chose to leave taste to one side. Paul McCartney is a great song writer – you won’t find me arguing that.

Actually, you would find me arguing that. Paul McCartney was a fantastic songwriter while The Beatles were together¹. As far as I’m concerned, however, McCartney could have stopped producing records when Lennon did and the world of music would have lost nothing.

Earlier, in fact. Then we would have been spared Band on the Bloody Run.

1. In fact For No One is among my absolutely favourite songs of all time – although so is I Want You (She’s So Heavy) [↩]