“There's a tendency to misremember as ‘John Lennon was a rock ‘n’ roll badass and Paul was kind of like happy poppy guy,’ but Paul made the weirdest music”: Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney was just as experimental as any of the Beatles, and still is

(L-R) Mark Ronson and Paul McCartney attend the Stella McCartney show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 on March 9, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images).

Conventional wisdom has it that it was John Lennon who was The Beatles’ envelope-pushing innovator, but Mark Ronson has argued that this does Paul McCartney a disservice.

Speaking on Track Stars, the popular YouTube show that sees artists being played snippets of music through headphones on the streets of New York and being asked to identify them, Ronson was treated to a portion Temporary Secretary, a discombobulating slice of sequenced synth-pop from 1982’s McCartney II album.