Library Rock's Backpages

Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full

Alfred Soto, Stylus, 8 June 2007

SINCE I'VE DUTIFULLY AVOIDED the half dozen studio albums released since he scored his last Top 40 hit in 1989, I'm in no position to discuss the "evolution" in Paul McCartney's music. As rock's most incorrigible niño lindo, he's clung to certain verities — the belief in the studio and the belief in the spontaneous — when the evidence shows that he isn't as resourceful (i.e. young) as he used to be.

Total word count of piece: 802

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.