He’s an 18-time Grammy Awards-winner, a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, and an Ivors Academy fellow. He’s a top-tier virtuoso bassist, a boundary-pusher, and a consummate musical craftsman; he’s the owner of a deep well of some of the best genre-defying hits of the last nearly five decades; and he is peerless, unparalleled, and a legend. And he is still cooler than all of us.