The bittersweet single recalls the crew coming together in 1950s Liverpool but stops short of wishing McCartney could go back in time — the regretful reflection of “Yesterday” is replaced by genteel elderly bravado: “No one can erase / The days we left behind.

It’s one of his biggest songs – and now considered a classic of the retrospectively created yacht rock genre – but Christopher Cross says that his 1980 hit, Ride Like The Wind, actually owes a big debt to Paul McCartney.

The 83 year old rock legend has been on a massive press run recently promoting his much anticipated album, "The Boys of Dungeon Lane," which released on May 29th. The press run has seen McCartney all over the place, including SNL, The Late Show, various online interviews, and now a spot on the Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music.

Especially when it comes to his melodies and arrangements, the “dark side” of Paul McCartney is relatively bright. Still, listen closely and you’ll hear a recurring fascination with melancholy, loneliness and, occasionally, the outright macabre.

McCartney had gone to Lagos to record Wings' third album, when a series of unfortunate events led to a friendship with Nigerian legend Fela Kuti