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Elaine Chung In 1970, Paul McCartney was in crisis. The Beatles were falling apart. Who was he without his bandmates and what kind of music would he make? He banged out a bunch of songs in isolation, playing all the instruments himself and recording on basic equipment, and released the results under the title McCartney. In 1980, Paul McCartney was in crisis. He had just broken up his band, Wings, after he got busted in Japan for marijuana possession and spent nine days in jail. Now what was h...

Paul McCartney’s music. When The Beatles were running on vapours, he retrenched and wrote his disarming debut album, McCartney. Ten years later, after a pot bust, a cancelled tour and a general weariness with Wings, he broke free to make McCartney II in 1980. These are both great albums and big ones, but they seem to have defined themselves very clearly as a “type” in Macca’s mind, and in his canon. Rather than “proper” records (today he uses the word “com...

Rolling Stone. Connecting it to McCartney’s storied 1971 LP and to Taylor Swift’s new record, he says: “It’s basically Ram meets Folklore.” The review notes that Paul has “never wanted to settle for being a nostalgia artist – that’s always set him apart from his generational peers. He takes pride in moving forward.” Fans can now also enjoy an all-new, 13-minute edition of the YouTube Originals series Released, in which the former Beatle talks about the record with comedi...

Paul McCartney III review: Melodic charm, craftsmanship and open-minded optimism make this solo album a real treat Helen Brown © Provided by The Independent Comparing notes with Taylor Swift on the DIY albums they both made in lockdown, Sir Paul McCartney reflected on the hard times he has survived. In the conversation arranged by Rolling Stone magazine, the 78-year-old legend reminded the 31-year-old pop star that he was born during the Second World War, and grew up gripped...

Paul McCartneys experimental streak goes way back. He played around with words, sounds and concepts with the Beatles and then launched his solo career with a self-titled album in 1970 that took his experiments to a more personal space. Fed up with the collaborative group format, at least for the time being, the chart-topping McCartney was made solely as a one-man-band project. Ten years, and a different band, later, he followed it up with another totally solo record, McCartney II, this tim...

Meanwhile, to promote McCartney III, Sir Paul recently launched an initiative called “12 Days of Paul” where he’s asked musicians from around the world to create videos of themselves performing cover versions of segments of the new album’s songs using sheet music that’s has been posted in public places in cities around the world. You can go to 12Days.McCartneyIII.com and McCartney’s socialmedia sites to check out the sheet music segments for the various tunes. Participating m...