Paul McCartney Has Nothing Left to Prove but Is Still Making Music
Paul McCartney is a people person. He initially resisted the Beatles’ permanent retreat to the studio, and on the eve of the band’s breakup, suggested they return to the road. (He had to settle for the roof.) In the decades since then, he’s rarely stayed off the stage for extended stretches. In recent years, he’s only picked up the pace, touring eight times (and totaling 310 shows) in the decade preceding the end of the “Freshen Up” odyssey that was supposed to extend into this year. His serial monogamy extends to his band too: His current touring (and sometimes recording) group, a four-person unit that coalesced in 2002, has lasted nearly as long as the Beatles and Wings combined. (One of its members has been by his side since 1989.) McCartney is constantly sighted on buses and subways. He goes on talk shows, calls into radio programs, and sits for features in magazines, obligingly “revealing” time after time that he sometimes dreams of John and George.
Source: Ben Lindbergh/theringer.com
