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Paul McCartney doesn’t need to make music any more. He just loves to
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Paul McCartney, 83, still enjoys what he does, and is no longer concerned with making hits.
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Jon Pareles
NEW YORK – For Paul McCartney, songwriting is not only a job, a craft and an emotional outlet. It is a compulsion and a craving.
“People say, ‘Well, why do you still write songs’? And it’s just because I love it. I’m addicted,” he said in an interview at Boulevard Carroll, a warren of recording and rehearsal studios on Manhattan’s Far West Side, where McCartney, 83, had just wrapped up an afternoon of band practice for the season finale of Saturday Night Live.
