Take Paul McCartney’s mesmerising gifts as a songwriter and performer, unite them with his seemingly irrepressible desire to see life’s glass as half-full, and you’ve got a body of work that demands attention at every level. His musical circuitry is so supercharged that he can seamlessly combine two, even three, tunes into a single song, as in “Band on the Run” or “Live and Let Die”. And in ballads like “Maybe I’m Amazed”, his extraordinary emotional intensity leaps from the speakers, reeling us in from note one. Appreciate the magnitude of Sir Paul’s talents with this playlist.