He can still give you earworms and warm fuzzy retro feelings. But at 71, is Macca now finally a man?
By David Yaffa for Tablet Magazine
The
title track of Paul McCartney’s NEW, his 16th solo studio album, has
been saturating computers everywhere these days, and if Macca’s voice
sounds giddy, it’s because he knows he’s reeled in a big one. If you
have watched a YouTube video in the past few weeks, you have probably
heard a fragment of the album’s title track. Paul’s reason for feeling
renewal and rebirth, he has said, is his recent marriage to Nancy
Shevell, a 51-year-old Jewess 20 years his junior. When McCartney’s
marriage to Shevell was first announced, cyberspace was abuzz with the
rumor that Sir Paul was going to join the faith of Nancy’s fathers,
which was also the faith of his first wife Linda Eastman’s fathers, and
the fathers of his one-time fiancée Jane Asher. Headlines like “Got to
get Jew into my life” invariably followed.The Jews may have lost Bob Dylan to Christianity for a few years, but could the goyim lose McCartney for good? It seems possible that, between a mega tour of epic proportions, and writing and recording these songs—a nuanced and baroque process involving a think-tank of four producers including Amy Winehouse, hipster knob twirler Mark Ronson, and Giles Martin, son of Beatles producer Sir George—that circumcision may not be the first thing on McCartney’s mind. Being a Jew—it’s one of those things you can get to later. When McCartney married Linda Eastman in 1969, as a rebound from John who (in effect) left him for Yoko, everyone noticed that Lennon’s new wife was Japanese, but most people didn’t notice that Eastman, a freethinking blonde photographer and groupie (who, after her first encounter with Paulie, bragged in a letter that she had “bagged a Beatle”), was Jewish. There was no talk of conversion, although Paul did say in interviews that, per matrilineal rabbinical law, his children with Linda were Jewish: Their daughter, the fashion designer Stella McCartney, appears to consider herself Jewish, although she did get married in a church.
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