‘From suffering comes creativity’, so goes the old adage, and when applying it to Sir Paul McCartney’s career, it shows us that he hasn’t experienced an ounce of suffering in three decades.
 
Like us, you were probably hoping that McCartney's bitter, painful, hilarious divorce may have depressed him back to former glories, but Macca has declared that this is definitely not the case.  

According to Paul McCartney:

“Some people, when they are going through periods of angst, get anxious songs that come out of it. What I notice is that I tend to do hopeful songs. It's just my method.  So I don't know whether the divorce will ever translate literally into song. It might do but I'm not so good with angst-ridden songs. My natural optimism tends to take over. Even if I've got an anxious first verse, the next verse is, 'Well, but never mind because it's going to be alright.’ Because I've got to live the sucker, I've got to get up each day and live the life."

Yes, it would seem Mr. McCartney now prioritises his general well-being above giving us, the general public – the people without whom he’d be selling knocked off car stereos from the back of a lorry (Alert all scousers:  that was a joke). "Oh, I’m sorry general public, but I can’t write any great tunes about the sadness of life, because I don’t wanna wake up in the morning wanting to kill myself."  

The selfish bastard. 

It’s a shame, though, because we're sure you were all dying to hear the song:

I’ve got nothing against your past,
Porno is what a struggling actress has to do;
I've got no qualms about the stability
of your mind
and your case, too;
Just as I’ve got nothing against your right leg
And just as neither do you  (cheers Peter Cook).

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[story by Paul Soretti]