The martello towers was put up for the Guernsey people to get in out of the way of the Grand Saracen.

But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past.

Here are no canterings upon moonlit heaths, no merry-makings in the snuggest of all possible caverns, none of the attractions of dress, no embroidery, no lace, no jack-boots, no crimson coats and ruffles, none of the dash and freedom with which the road has been, time out of mind, invested.

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.