There is an excellent site called,The Evolution of Paul Mccartney's Bass Playing. Stanley Clarke,Billy Sheehan,Will Lee and Sting all say what a great and influential bass player he has always been. The Rolling Stone Album Guide also calls Paul a remarkable bass player.They also call john and paul the two greatest song writers in thge history of rock. So does The All Music Guide who also say that John and Paul were among the greatest singers in rock music! Paul McCartney like John Lennon was,is an extrodinaryly talented person! He got it from his musically talented father Jim McCartney who like Paul had the same natural musical ability and his father was deaf in one erar drum because he busted it at age 14. But he taught himself how to play the piano and he became an accomlished classical jazz pianist. He had his own jazz band in the 1930's called Jim Mac's band and they were popular in clubs and he even wrote some of his own music. Paul and wings recored it and one of the songs on The Wings At The Speed of Sound Album from 1976. Paul's best sound in his solo career including Wings was in the 1970-1975 period and there are a lot of great obscure gems to be found. Mostly as B sides and album tracks. I love the Wings albums Red Rose Speedway and Venus and Mars which is a great rock record! His 1982 Tug of War Record is pretty good too not mention the Band on The Run album! I love him so much I hope he lives to be 90 if he wants to. The poor guy lost his mother Mary to breast cancer when he was just 14 and he had a dream where he saw her again 12 years after she died and he said she was so real in the dream and it was so good to see her again. In this dream she told him to just accept things as they are and that's when the beautiful song Let it Be and it's his mother Mary who he is talikng about. His mother was like a Saint she was a nburse and a midwife who everybody loved. Paul's earlist memories of her are of people bringing her presents thanking her for her work.