The band Paul McCartney said could be as big as Elvis: “For a lot of kids”Paul McCartney is among the very few musicians who can truthfully claim to have eclipsed Elvis Presley with his career. For those of McCartney’s generation, there were few musicians – or cultural icons, more generally – bigger than Elvis Presley. According to that particular interviewer, the youth of the 1970s had no definitive cultural icon, but McCartney wasn’t quite convinced. “For us, us old cronies,” the songwriter admitted, “I don’t think it’s had as much influence as Elvis, because there’s not been anyone that big, for us.” “I suppose for them, for a lot of the kids, the Sex Pistols was a big thing,” McCartney theorised, adding: “And they were a really good group.”