More: 'Ecstatic to be back': South Shore welcomes return of live entertainment More: 'This is a great time': South Shore Music Circus is ready to rock After all, he is 79 years old, although he looks younger than the 58-year-old Rubin. So, perhaps he has forgotten a bit of what he was thinking back then. Well, it has been more than 50 years since he, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and “fifth Beatle,” producer George Martin, gathered together at Abbey Road Studios. Whether he’s playing coy or not, McCartney sells it whenever he marvels at one of his innovative twists knocked out back in the day on his trademark Vox violin bass, as if he’s hearing it for the very first time. “But now that the Beatles’ volume of work is finished, I listen back to it, and you know, ‘What’s that bassline?’” Because then, I was just a Beatle,” he tells Rubin, who’s shaped records for acts as diverse as Run DMC, Tom Petty and Johnny Cash. 1 geek is McCartney, who fesses up to being as big a Beatles wonk as everyone else. How cool is it to have one-half of the Lennon-McCartney team explaining what it’s like to be a master songwriter who can’t read or notate music? Very cool! So cool, it’s a geek-fest supreme. Rather, it took mere hours to produce earth-shattering masterpieces like “Michelle,” “Yesterday” and “Here, There and Everywhere.” I know this because Sir Paul told me so in his fabulous new six-part Hulu series, “McCartney 3,2,1.” And it generally didn’t take the seven days that other deity required to mold the Earth. So when these two messiahs of the music industry come together, expect a fascinating discussion on the subject of creation, namely how many of your favorite tunes by the Fab Four came to be. Rick Rubin looks like God, and if you’re a die-hard Beatles fan, Paul McCartney IS God.
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