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Paul McCartney - McCartney III (Album Review) Wednesday, 23 December 2020 Written by Alex Myles By now we’ve become used to the idea of a lockdown album. But one from Sir Paul McCartney? Well, that is a lovely surprise. McCartney surprised even himself with this album, for ‘McCartney III’ is the third in a trilogy of happy accidents. As with 1970’s ‘McCartney’ and 1980’s ‘McCartney II’, the 78-year-old didn’t set out to create an album in 2020. It just happened. Like ‘McCartney’, this is a one-man project and the former Beatle explores themes of home, l...

Third time's the charm from old charmer Sir Paul Third time's the charm from old charmer Sir Paul Normal text size When he finds himself in times of trouble, Beatle Paul self-isolates. McCartney, his DIY debut, was launched like a solo escape pod as his first band imploded in a fiery ball in 1970. McCartney II whisked him from the wreckage of Wings in 1980, a debacle hastened by his Tokyo prison stint for cannabis possession. Now, with pleasing numerology, McCartney III carries him through the deadly COVID-19 scare of 2020. As on the others, he plays and produces everything here with a gle...

solo album, The former Beatle and sometimes one-man band, McCartney says he started working on the new album back in March when pandemic-related lockdowns left him with little else to do to keep busy but write and record music. McCartney told Chris Rock in an interview Thursday evening for YouTube 'RELEASED' that he initially dropped into the studio this spring to work on something for a film project. One thing led to another and he began ironing out old song ideas and coming up with new ones, recording every instrument and every vocal harmony by himself. The result is a typically playful...

Paul McCartney's 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 time indulging in his favorite new instrument: the synthesizer. In between and after those two records...

Verdict: The Fab One Rating: Paul McCartney's two previous all-solo albums arrived at pivotal moments. The first, 50 years ago, was a rough-and-ready affair made as the Beatles were falling bitterly to pieces. The second, in 1980, came as his next band, Wings, were crumbling. Now we have McCartney III, made 'in rockdown' as Macca was quarantining with family members in Sussex. This was to have been the year he returned in triumph to Glastonbury: instead he found himself writing songs alone on guitar, piano, an old Fab Four mellotron and the double bass used on Elvis Presley's early hits. Rec...