When Paul McCartney had trouble working through a song (hard to imagine, but yes it happened), he found simply invoking another songwriter helped limit the anxiety of production. Per American Songwriter: It frees you up,’ he writes. In the end, though you put on the mask of another artist (in the case of this song …
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Published on October 12, 2025 06:00