Anyone who sez that Macca isn't musically important is, well, one of several things. I'll have a go: a Macca-hater. A Macca envier. A Macca jealousee. A Macca denier. A Stones fan. A snob. Just give over, will you.

No, the plain simple truth is that anyone who sez McCartney isn't musically important is just disagreeing with your opinion of him, no more, no less, live with it.

By any objective standard, Macca is musically extremely important.

By what objective standard? You omitted to state it. Was he commercially successful? I think I have already stated that he was, although how much of that was down to Epstein and Martin I am not so sure.

In a hundred years' time we'll still be listening to Macca's stuff (Jesus wept, we're already fifty years down the road and we're still listening...)

Somehow doubt it, no more so than you'll hear Buddy Holly or the Everly Brothers. Funny thing is you get people at sessions say how great all the 60s stuff is yet when they come to play it all you get is one verse, one chorus and possibly one or two lines mumbled from the second verse, then it all dries up. All in all musically it is all meaningless pap.

I can appreciate that he is extremely accomplished in his particular field, not to speak of extremely influential.

Your opinion that you may share with many others, but it is nonetheless purely opinion.