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I enjoyed reading this, but what a strange article that's projecting a lot onto McCartney. Every anecdote has some plausible, other reason for these situations, but the article seems insistent on putting McCartney's memory on a pedestal. Paul himself never acknowledges these anecdotes are due to memory, and he's never mentioned his memory is particularly noteworthy. If I got anything out of this article, it's the mystique of celebrity when they don't answer your every question.
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Yes, I found this one of the oddest articles I've read in a while. It's just the author projecting all of these things onto McCartney, without ever having any clear evidence of what really happened in any of these cases or evidence that he has a particularly good memory.
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In fact, he alludes to just the opposite with the title of his 14th solo album, "Memory Almost Full", which itself is an anagram of "for my soulmate LLM" (Linda Louise McCartney).

Paul insists this was not intentional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Almost_Full

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Yeah, exactly this. This is an unwitting article about how people are desperate to deify celebrities. I've always been a bit bewildered by the phenomenon. It almost seems like internalized marketing.
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I've also heard so many more impressive and concrete memory anecdotes.

John Mulaney had a great one about Bill Clinton remembering his mother's name decades after meeting her once in college.

So I was expecting a lot more out of this article.

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