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Last weekend, Paul McCartney re-entered the chart at No 39 with Wonderful Christmastime. It’s not his best song, or even his hundredth-best, but it made a touching sight because at No 40 was John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over).
Life is what happens, Lennon sang, while you’re making other plans. A year when McCartney was due to headline Glastonbury (again) landed him in Sussex for lockdown with his daughter Mary and her children.
Fiddling about in his studio, he made an album without meaning to.
This album, like those two, is homespun: not so much Band On The Run as Man On The Farm. Paul McCartney recently admitted to envying Bob Dylan, because ‘he doesn’t give a s***’