McCartney Times

PAUL MCCARTNEY is pure music, the first singer and multi-instrumentalist with sex appeal who breathed melody. He lived in our speakers and on our screens, and wrote the soundtrack of much of the 20th century. When John Lennon saw him in his big white sports jacket, black drainies, and ducktail, he thought he had discovered another Elvis, and felt that his recruitment of Mr McCartney was one of his finest achievements, the discovery of someone with whom he could not only write, but also harmonise, and in so doing, escape poverty and insignificance.

Source: Musical biography: The story of Paul McCartney, no ear required | The Economist