Records, which had been his label since 1962, when the Beatles were signed by George Martin. Last year, McCartney decided not to renew his contract with E.M.I. Arrayed in chairs around him were his project manager, Paddy Spinks a female assistant and five young men-employees of a Web-design company that is helping to promote вЂњMemory Almost Full,вЂќ which will be released next week. He was dressed in a long-sleeved gray T-shirt, rust-colored pants in Glen plaid, and leather-free black running shoes. McCartney was sitting on a small sofa at one end of his office, peering at a laptop computer on the coffee table in front of him. вЂњItвЂ™s like вЂWell, no, this canвЂ™t be me.вЂ™ вЂќ) вЂњThe thought is somewhat horrifying,вЂќ he told me. (It is a milestone that he admits he finds difficult to contemplate. When I visited him in May, these included a DVD compilation of his videos, including some Wings songs a DVD of вЂњEcce Cor Meum,вЂќ a lush choral work and his latest pop album, вЂњMemory Almost Full,вЂќ a suite of deeply personal songs that reflect, often starkly, McCartneyвЂ™s awareness of aging and loss as he approaches his sixty-fifth birthday, on June 18th. While accountants on floors above and below him administer his musical properties, McCartney oversees various creative projects. Communications, owns rights to more than three thousand songs and Broadway shows, including Buddy HollyвЂ™s catalogue and the musicals вЂњAnnie,вЂќ вЂњGuys and Dolls,вЂќ and вЂњGreaseвЂќ-all part of a show-business empire that, along with the royalty he earns on every Beatles record sold, has made him one of the richest men in England. Besides being the surviving member of the most successful pop-songwriting partnership of the twentieth century, he is a music impresario whose company, M.P.L. PepperвЂ™s Lonely Hearts Club Band,вЂќ the first art-concept rock LP, he has never made a secret of his Tin Pan Alley inclinations. The office, which overlooks the square, is furnished with a rolltop desk, a vintage jukebox, two large de Koonings, and a carpet featuring stylized musical notes-a Sammy Cahn-like touch that is nevertheless pure McCartney. His office is on the third floor and is reached by a small elevator off the lobby or by a narrow staircase, whose walls are lined with framed photographs of McCartney and other sixties rock stars-including a black-and-white shot of a young Brian Jones taken by McCartneyвЂ™s first wife, Linda, who died in 1998. Paul McCartneyвЂ™s music-publishing business occupies three stories in an elegant eighteenth-century building on Soho Square, in London. The breakdown of the responses was as follows: 455 people had never taken a PCR test, 106 people had one time, 103 people had two times, 22 people had three times, six people had four times, one person had five times, one person had six times, three people had seven times, three people had eight times, one person had 10 times, one person had 11 times, and eight people had 20 times or more.Lennon and McCartney in 1965, the year of вЂњHelp!вЂќ and вЂњRubber Soul.вЂќ Photograph by David Bailey. There were also responses that appeared to be from essential workers in medical and nursing care fields who regularly undergo PCR testing, who said things like, 'I take the test every month for my profession,' and 'I undergo the test twice a month at my company as I'm a caregiver.' Ten respondents, or just 1%, had undertaken PCR tests more than 10 times. In Japan, it is believed that many people take PCR tests out of necessity, either because they have symptoms such as a fever or are identified as a close contact, and at least one respondent said, 'I took the test before returning to my hometown to give birth.' There were 710 valid responses, of which 455 said they have never undergone such a test, and 255 said they had received one at least once. The poll was conducted jointly by the Mainichi Shimbun and the Social Survey Research Center, and asked those who responded by cell phone how many times they had taken a PCR test.

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