Paul McCartney Teases New Solo Album

Paul McCartney has set a New 12 months’s solution for himself: End his subsequent album.

In a brief Q&A with lovers on his web site, McCartney showed that he’s “been operating on a large number of songs,” however needed to put the album “to the facet” as a result of his Were given Again Excursion (which introduced in 2022 and in any case wrapped this month with a particular London display that includes Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wooden).

“I’m hoping to get again into that and end up a large number of those songs,” McCartney wrote. “So, how’s about that? My New 12 months’s solution is to complete a brand new album!”

McCartney launched his maximum contemporary solo album, McCartney III, in 2020. It was once a follow-up of types to its two predecessors, 1970’s McCartney, and 1980’s McCartney II, although it without delay adopted his 2018 solo effort, Egypt Station. 

In 2021, McCartney shared the remix album, McCartney III Imagined. That LP featured an array of latest collaborators and remixers, together with Beck, St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers, Damon Albert, Khruangbin, Dominic Fike, Josh Homme, and Anderson .Paak. 

Whilst McCartney hasn’t launched any new solo tune just lately, this 12 months did see him shepherd the coming of the remaining Beatles tune, “Now and Then.” The observe is according to a piano demo John Lennon recorded in 1977, and which Yoko Ono gave to the surviving individuals of the band in 1994. On the time, George Harrison laid down some guitar portions for conceivable inclusion on the Beatles Anthology field units, however the high quality of the unique demo was once so deficient, the gang determined to desert the tune.

Years later, then again, McCartney was once in a position to scrub up the demo the use of the similar generation Peter Jackson’s crew evolved to revive and maintain the archival audio for the Get Again film mission. McCartney and Starr recorded new drums and vocals, which they combined with Lennon’s demo and Harrison’s previous guitar portions. “Now and Then” was once just lately nominated for a few Grammys as neatly, together with Report of the 12 months.