Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Long and winding road leads me to Paul McCartney's door

Paul McCartney III is a deceivingly good album from a man who provides a link to so much that is great about music

Left, the back cover of Paul McCartney's first solo album in 1970, with baby Mary McCartney peeping out. On right is the cover of McCartney III, which had Mary helping on the photography.

And in year of our Lord, 2020, a year beset not just by plague but also Bon Jovi’s version of Fairytale of New York, the Creator did at last smile on his people. And he did send forth the third instalment of the McCartney solo albums, McCartney III, and he saw that it was good.

‘Good’ is a moot point here. It’s not ‘good’ in the Sgt Pepper way, or indeed a Band On The Run way. But it is still ‘good’ in a McCartney way and as he is the Beethoven of our age, that is a different kind of ‘good’ completely. It’s like an average game by Maradona, average to him, not us.