Sir Paul, you're a credit to your love songs | Stephanie Merritt

The carpers with their nasty online comments about Paul McCartney's engagement are displaying a cynicism that he does well to ignore'Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs," declared Paul McCartney, back in the days before his own love life turned into a Chaucerian cautionary tale about the follies of age and the wiles of youth and beauty. "And what's wrong with that?" the song goes on, "I'd like to know, 'cause here I go, again."What's wrong with it, in the view of a large numbe...

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