At 83, Paul McCartney is no longer the famous young rockstar.One would have expected him to be an elder statesman of the world of music dispensing wisdom.
Dashing such laidback roles, McCartney has produced his 18th solo LP. He has defied age .
His creative talent has always been close to superhuman. The depth, volume and imaginative leaps of the Lennon-McCartney songbook is s pointer to it. His prodigiousness in the post-Beatles era is another milepost in his career.
The lesson here is two-fold. The first applies to the moment of history when it seems that the machine is poised to take over every creative bastion.
Witness the fear whipped up by allegations that a Commonwealth prize recipient this year used AI. Technology can now ” write” books, “”compose” music , “paint” pictures” and “make” films. What was once passable, even became genuinely interesting.
McCartney is doing what he has always done. It shows creativity is not always about outcome but the process itself. The second lesson is perseverance matters as much as ability. Remember Peter Jackson’,s documentary, ” Beatles, Get Back”.
It covers the making of Let It Be, the great quartet’s final studio album.The viewer watches the band almost break up.In the end, it is not only alchemy that keeps them together.
It is also McCartney’s stubborn belief in the work itself. It is his insistence they show up.
His belief to be making music together is regardless of personal and creative differences. They stick together to “go through the bad and get to the good bit”.
