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Macca's voice

My first public internet post was in 1991. It was a post in rec.music.beatles which I accessed using a unix session over dial-up internet - 14,400 kbaud. Smoking fast!

Even then it was obvious that Paul McCartney’s voice was getting ‘worn’. He was 48 years old. Had been a consistent smoker and didn’t believe in hydrating during long concerts. He’s only recently decided to do it. A bit late at age 83!

Anyway he has a new album on the way “The Boys of Dungeon Lane”.

You can catch one early release track on YouTube. Days We Left Behind.

Details on how to pre-load album on Apple Music, Spotify etc are here.

When Macca sings within his now quite restricted range he still delivers. There’s just some songs he simply shouldn’t sing anymore - too high. He’s had a good run delivering 18 solo albums plus Wings and some other band before that :-).

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