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Please cherish Paul McCartney, the herd of musical greats is thinning fast

Please cherish Paul McCartney, the herd of musical greats is thinning fast

Please cherish Paul McCartney, the herd of musical greats is thinning fast
August 31
12:00 2021

The Wilburys weren’t so much a supergroup as a superdupergroup – Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty.

They were the musical equivalent of this season’s Paris St Germain frontline, as if some gamer geek had discovered a rock ‘n’ roll cheat code. All that was missing was a Rolling Stone.

Unless you’ve looked it up, you’ll probably be surprised at just how young they were. Dylan was 47, Harrison 45, Lynne 41. Petty, at 37, could still have been playing for PSG.

At 52, Orbison was the eldest by five years and the only one older than I am now. I’m sure it depended on your age at the time, but back then they seemed quasi-geriatric to me. In truth, they were barely middle-aged.

The band’s superannuated feel stemmed in part from all that they had previously and individually achieved in their tender years. Orbison’s solo career had effectively been over by 1965, by which point he’d had top 10 hits with Only the Lonely, Crying and Oh, Pretty Woman.

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Martin Nethercutt

Martin Nethercutt

Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music. Creative Director at McCartney Studios Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc. Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel Lives in Playa del Rey From Kassel, Germany Married to Ruth McCartney

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