The Paul people are out in force these days. A New Yorker profile, a book and a new documentary have put the Beatles, and particularly Paul, back in the papers. Not that they, or he, ever left.
I should admit a bias. I have the same first name as John, and being a man of straightforward loyalties I took him as my favourite early on.

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