THE BEAT GOES ON
Paul MeCartney’s latest adventure in mass culture, his ABC-TV special, was so bad he can hardly be blamed for doing it under a pseudonym. “James Paul McCartney” probably wasn’t a bad show, considering that its star has been dead for several years, but it did bring out everything that is stereotypically vapid and sterile in the Estranged Beatle.
July 1, 1973