But he doesn't. He just looks like a creepy paedo.

Why doesn't whoever controls these things just lower the number of albums required for an album to go gold or platinum. It makes no sense to have certifications based on a market from 40 years ago that doesn't exist anymore.

I think that album sold so well because of the videos that came with it. Lots of folks wanted Beyonce porn.

I wish they sold the book for that vinyl set separately. It looks, er, fab. Want.

I've been rereading Lonesome Dove, and going around the house saying things like, "I god, Woodrow" and "I hate rude talk in a man. Won't tolerate it."

Sometimes Bill Maher makes me laugh but I've never once thought, "I like that guy." I have, however, often thought "this dude is funny yet creepy."

That one is equally tired. And she was a lovely woman.

No it's not. Pretty much nothing about it is lighthearted, lyrically or musically.

So in other words, there's nothing shameless about this. You just don't like Kanye, or rap, or whatever.

Because Paul McCartney needs more fame?? Excuse me but that just makes no sense. He doesn't need the money. He doesn't need the fame. All that leaves is the music.

Perhaps you ought to go sob over your Beatles records and think about how much better everything was in the 60s.

Why? Wings produced one stone-cold classic album, a couple other good albums and a string of hits. Music fans are all such drama queens.

What is shameless about it?

Maccanye

It's been really entertaining reading all the nasty comments on Facebook from distraught Beatles fans wringing their hands in anxiety over this. Sheesh. Lighten Up, Francis. Kanye continues to do great stuff and McCartney is enjoying a late-career rebirth of sorts. So this collab could be awesome or it could be a…

Oops I forgot about Let 'Em In. Love that one. It's a great loopy, eerie, pot-fueled track.

I don't care about Speed of Sound (except for the glorious Silly Love Songs). But Venus and Mars is a great album — far better than Lennon's Imagine album (which not only sounds terribly dated today but is cloying and self-absorbed) and better than anything George Harrison released after All Things Must Pass. In…

5 favorite George songs:

OK, I don't feel so bad for saying that my favorite version of All Things Must Pass is the one Paul sang at the Concert for George.

George was neither the most talented or the least talented of the Beatles. He was right where the quality of his work meant for him to be.