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Analytical Analysis Of Paul Mccartney Is Esquire's August Cover Star

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Analytical essay of “Paul McCartney Is Esquire’s August Cover Star” Should all your faults be overlooked if you are a rockstar? No, of course not. What if you are a rolemodel as well? Alex Bilmes, the editor of Esquire has written an article about Paul McCartney, where his answer is yes, if the rolemodel has other qualities. The article covers McCartneys life from the Beatles to now, and provides an interesting but one-sided picture of him, given that Alex Bilmes has trouble downplaying his love for McCartney. Alex Bimes portraits many facets of McCartneys personality in the interview, but focuses on McCartneys as a rock star and role model. Bilmes starts the article with describing McCartneys major success as a soloartist. Here we learn more about the details of McCartneys hard life but also the cruelty which growing old in society means, and how McCartney professionally tells Bimes that playing “gigs” all over the world is tough but; “It’s what I do, it’s my life”. The way McCartney is described is not very homogenous throughout the interview. First, he is described as a courteous but very self-satisfied professional. Later Bilmes describes him as much more down to earth and talkative – this is especially shown with the quote: “Palacious? Palatial! Fuck it, I like palacious. Come on! It was a long plane journey.” Bilmes also touches on how he was the leader of The Beatles and dominated the group up to its break-up, but also how society viewed McCartney as being the “least

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