Sir Paul McCartney was completely taken aback by the accusation that he did little to support the British music industry. As TPR berated him in public, the former Beatle took on the appearance of an ordinary little grey-haired old man, powerless to respond.

This was just the latest in a series of episodes in which I was beginning to question why I tolerated marriage to TPR. He was certainly a very attractive man for his age, but I did not approve of his picking on the elderly, nor romancing just about every woman with whom he came into contact. There was clear evidence that he had already worked his way round every female member of staff at his office (including a full-blown affair with someone called Julie), and now rumours were circulating that he had embarked on the conquest of each his colleagues’ wives.

Paul McCartney elsewhere on Dreamaticus: