Why Paul McCartney, at 82, can’t let it happen

Paul McCartney is back in fashion. When, after a three-hour set, McCartney left the stage at Glastonbury in 2022, the audience seemed to express the gratitude of a country, as those at the Mall for the platinum jubilee celebrations 20 days earlier had done to the queen. For Elizabeth II, it was her penultimate public appearance. McCartney, however, was back on tour in the UK last month: still hungry, at 82, to be appreciated, and still, through his sheer virtuosity, eager to settle scores.

Peter Jackson’s Documentary 2021 To come back on the January 1969 Beatles sessions, the Glastonbury concert and the Beatles single 2023 From time to time are all part of McCartney’s attempt to re-elevate the Beatles into the mythic realm, with the songwriting duo Lennon and McCartney at its heart. Its implicit antagonist is still Yoko Ono, who has spent the four and a half decades since her husband’s death insisting that John Lennon’s spirit was bigger than that of the Beatles.

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