Interview about Sir Paul McCartney

Sam Liddicott is doing a great series of articles about Paul McCartney ahead of Macca’s 80th birthday and asked me to share some of my thoughts about Paul and his influence On me…

As a songwriter yourself, how important has Paul McCartney been? What is it about his talent and innovation that resonates with you?

This is a hard question to answer, because it would be like trying to explain how important cellular respiration has been in my life. I’ll try and give a less obvious example I was thinking about recently. After The Beatles split, the first several albums Paul put out were not massively successful, with one even being restructured after rejection by the record label. What must that have felt like to an artist who, up until then, had been met with complete success in his recording career? His response: keep making music. Keep writing songs. Very inspiring.

Read the full thing on Sam’s blog https://www.musicmusingsandsuch.com/musicmusingsandsuch/2022/5/16/feature-paul-mccartney-at-eighty-paul-mccartney-and-me-the-interviews-robert-lane