WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

● The mischievous nature of Macca’s Beatles-era writing is further explored. As it turns out, one change of vowel reveals the true X-rated intent behind the Lovely Rita line, “Give us a wink and make me think of you.”

● On ’71’s Ram, Paul famously had a pop at John and Yoko in Too Many People. In The Lyrics, he explains why: “So much of what they held to be truth was crap. ‘War is over’? Well no, it isn’t.”

● The brilliant I Don’t Know from 2018’s Egypt Station captured McCartney in a moment of doubt and pain, revealed here to be caused by family drama and feelings of parental inadequacy. “Writing a song is like talking to a psychiatrist,” he says.