Celebrating Sir Paul Top Ten: Magneto and Titanium Man (#8)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (87150)
United States
June 23, 2026 11:25am CST
One thing about making a list with an artist who has such an enormous discography from which to choose like Paul McCartney is that things have to be omitted. And, given that everyone has tastes that are as individual as their fingerprints, that makes others scratch their heads. Today might be one of those cases. 
#8: Magneto and Titanium Man (Wings)
Yeah, sue me. I left “Live and Let Die” off for this. 
Like Denny Laine said in the introduction of the live version linked below, “This is a bit of a rocker. In fact, it’s a lot of a rocker.”
But I have no less than Stan Lee, the late Marvel Comics legend who created the characters Magneto, Titanium Man, and the Crimson Dynamo, in my corner. When asked what he thought of a song referencing his characters, he said it was terrific.
These days, of course, there’d probably be a big lawsuit over copyright and all that crap from the movie studio that owns the rights to the Marvel franchise. But those were simpler times in the 70s, and you could do worse than having Sir Paul name three of your comic book characters in a song!
Magneto and Titanium Man
Written by Paul and Linda McCartney
From Venus and Mars (Wings), 1975
We went to town with the livery:
#8: Magneto and Titanium Man (Wings)
Yeah, sue me. I left “Live and Let Die” off for this. Like Denny Laine said in the introduction of the live version linked below, “This is a bit of a rocker. In fact, it’s a lot of a rocker.”
But I have no less than Stan Lee, the late Marvel Comics legend who created the characters Magneto, Titanium Man, and the Crimson Dynamo, in my corner. When asked what he thought of a song referencing his characters, he said it was terrific.
These days, of course, there’d probably be a big lawsuit over copyright and all that crap from the movie studio that owns the rights to the Marvel franchise. But those were simpler times in the 70s, and you could do worse than having Sir Paul name three of your comic book characters in a song!
Magneto and Titanium Man
Written by Paul and Linda McCartney
From Venus and Mars (Wings), 1975
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@teamfreak16 (43796)
• Denver, Colorado
20h
Lawyers: "We are suing Sir Paul McCartney in retro for writing that song."
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@FourWalls (87150)
• United States
19h
I seriously have wondered if the pinheads at the corporation headquarters would try to sue Sparks over their 1982 song “Mickey Mouse.”
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@FourWalls (87150)
• United States
16h
@teamfreak16 — “you mean we can’t? Sh*t!”
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@teamfreak16 (43796)
• Denver, Colorado
18h
@FourWalls - Someone has looked into it, I'm sure.
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My musical education has been sadly lacking but you're doing a great job of improving it. 
@FourWalls (87150)
• United States
12h
We had a joke going around in the late 70s/early 80s about the Beatles being “that band Paul McCartney was in before Wings.”
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@RasmaSandra (98361)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18h
This one totally passed me by,
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@mininifty (163)
• Belmont, Michigan
21h
If only you knew. Remember when you posted that Alan Sherman song and I brought up Dr. Demento and novelty songs? Well, especially that genre, there are hundreds of unauthorized movie and TV show references per year! If anything, there was more fear of a lawsuit over character references back in the day, but nowadays with fandom music (a.k.a. filk), nobody's afraid to reference a character in their song; the fear nowadays is that a melody might sound like another.
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@FourWalls (87150)
• United States
19h
People like Weird Al and Homer & Jethro always sought permission, even though it’s legally not required. One of the best stories was the lawyers told Homer & Jethro that Broadway tunes were off-limits in the parody world. They didn’t listen, made a spoof of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” and Frank Loesser loved it so much he wrote the liner notes to the EP, and specifically requested that the songwriting credit say, “With apologies to Frank Loesser.” And they always did.
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