Macca soared to new heights with Wings

Author Philip Norman once wrote a bitter poem about Sir Paul dubbing him a "deified Scouse with unmusical spouse" and ending, "May they bury you soon in the middlemost midst of the road.

- Paul McCartney & Wings

What was it about the likeable knight and his post-Beatles career that agitated the self-styled culturati so?

The idea that he was the syrupy, sentimental lightweight to Lennon's cynical right-on heavy-hitter was so widespread that Macca wrote Silly Love Songs in response.