Paul McCartney
Memory Almost Full
Paul McCartney's latest album Memory Almost Full
is out and it's fabulous! To be sure to get it ASAP (and to save a little money) I pre-ordered the deluxe limited edition at
amazon
From an interview with Paul: "I actually started this album, Memory Almost Full, before my last album Chaos And Creation In The Backyard... In places it’s a very personal record and a lot of it is retrospective, drawing from memory, like memories from being a kid, from Liverpool and from summers gone. The album is evocative, emotional, rocking, but I can’t really sum it up in one sentence. There is a medley of 5 songs towards the end and that was purposefully retrospective. I thought this might be because I’m at this point in my life, but then I think about the times I was writing with John and a lot of that was also looking back. It’s like me with ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ - I’m still up to the same tricks! I know people are going to look at some of the songs and interpret them in different ways but this has always been the case. The thing is that I love writing songs, so I just write and write. I never really get to a point where I start thinking I’m going to write about specific subjects. Inevitably though, what I am thinking is going to find its way into what I’m doing."
Tracks include: Dance Tonight, Ever Present Past, See Your Sunshine, Only Mama Knows, You Tell Me, Mr. Bellamy, Gratitude, Vintage Clothes, That Was Me, Feet In The Clouds, House of Wax, The End Of The End and Nod Your Head along with a second CD of 3 bonus tracks and audio commentary by Paul in the deluxe edition.
Interestingly, this CD was released just a few days after the anniversary of the release of The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band 40 years ago!
So will there be a tour? I sure hope so! Understandably, considering the pressure Paul has been under since his breakup with Heather Mills, Paul has been taking some well deserved time off. So far Paul McCartney has only played a handful of small venues in the U.S. and England with his band. But he has said that he would like to tour in 2008 though no details have been announced yet. Please come back to New York, Paul!
If you haven't yet, check out Paul's DVD Paul McCartney - The Space Within Us which includes 30 songs recorded live during his latest tour plus lots of behind-the-scenes extras :-)
Paul McCartney on DVD - Movies & Concerts
1964 The Beatles Live at Shea Stadium live picture with sound overdubbed in studio 2 weeks later due to all the screaming :-)1964 A Hard Day's Night
1965 Help!
1967 Magical Mystery Tour
1968 Yellow Submarine
1970 Let It Be pre-order; due out in September 2005
1976 Paul McCartney and Wings Rock Show 1976 concert
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street
1990 Get Back World Tour1989 concert tour
1991 The Beatles: The First US Visit 1964 performances, interviews & more
1994 The Beatles: The Making of A Hard Day's Night
1997 Paul McCartney Standing Stone behind the scenes documentary & live performance of Paul's classical work
1998 Paul McCartney In the World Tonight documentary on the making of Flaming Pie plus songs from the album
2001 Paul McCartney Live at the Cavern Club 1999 concert, interviews & more
2001 Paul McCartney & Friends: The PETA Concert for Party Animals 1999 concert
2001 Wingspan An Intimate Portrait of Paul McCartney & Wings (and Paul 'n Linda :-)
2003 Concert for George
2002 Back in the U.S. 2002 concert
2004 Music And Animation Collection 3 clever cartoons with music, vocals and creative input by Paul McCartney
2005 Paul McCartney Live In Red Square 2003 concert
Books by & about Paul McCartney
The Music of Paul McCartney - 1963-1973
A collection 47 songs from Paul's career with The Beatles and Wings as well as his early solo work including All My Loving, Another Day, I Will And I Love Her, Back In The U.S.S.R., Birthday, Blackbird, The Fool On The Hill, For No One, Getting Better, Give Ireland Back To The Irish, Good Day Sunshine, Hello Goodbye, Here There And Everywhere, Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, I Saw Her Standing There, Junk, Lady Madonna, Let It Be, Live And Let Die, The Long And Winding Road, Maybe I'm Amazed, Michelle, Mother Nature's Son, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Penny Lane, She's Leaving Home, We Can Work It Out, When I'm Sixty-Four, Your Mother Should Know, Get On The Right Thing, Tomorrow, Every Night, Heart Of The Country, When The Night, Wild Life, My Love, Get Back, Every Little Thing, Yesterday and more. Arranged for piano and vocal with guitar chords. Lots of great full-page photos too. Also check out The Music of Paul McCartney - 1973-2001
Each One Believing: Paul McCartney; On Stage, Off Stage, and Backstage
Each One Believing isn’t your standard tour memento, but then the tour it chronicles was pretty extraordinary, too. Paul McCartney’s 2002-2003 world tour demonstrated just how much mania an ex-Beatle could trigger more than three decades after the demise of the Fab Four. Each One Believing captures the spirit of the tour from all angles via numerous on stage and backstage photos, interviews, and press quotes. Includes more than 100 photos by Bill Bernstein and lots of great inside information from Sir Paul and his band.
Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now by Barry Miles
A book for anyone who doesn't already know (and for those of us who have always known :-) that Macca is more than just a pretty face & cute personality: a wonderful telling of the McCartney story by a man who knows him well. But one of the best thing about this book is Paul's sharp and compassionate insights into his fellow Beatles, especially the brilliant but troubled John. And the inside info on all those songs!
Paul McCartney Paintings
A catalog of paintings from McCartney's 1999 exhibition in Germany. From the illustrations and accompanying essays to the very candid interview, we are given remarkable insight into McCartney's practice as a committed creative person. He confides his insecurities as a painter who has never gone to art school, and his defining moments as an artist both musically and visually. There is an unusually generous section in which McCartney discusses many of the paintings in the book; it's a behind-the-scenes look as he elaborates on the personal meanings behind certain symbols, tells stories and anecdotes, and acknowledges his painterly influences, specifically Willem de Kooning. Also included are personal photographs of the artist at work, 117 color illustrations, and 17 duotone photographs.
Blackbird Singing Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999 written by Paul McCartney; collected by Adrian Mitchell
Sir Paul McCartney painter, composer and songwriter has been steadily writing poetry along with the lyrics memorized by much of the world. In this collection are the grand and expected songs, such as "Hey Jude," "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby"; ditties like "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" and surreal oddities like "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"; elegies for McCartney's wife, Linda Eastman McCartney, and for friend Ivan Vaughan; and a variety of verse, such as "To Find the Joy": "Seagulls spiral whirl/ Against the sullen oak/ No scientific thought informs/ Their madcap tribal swirl." As Mitchell writes: "Clean out your head. Wash out the name and the fame. Read these clear words and listen to them decide for yourself."
I Saw Him Standing There by Jorie B. Gracen
An insider's glimpse into the private persona of one of the world's greatest musician-singer-songwriters or our time. All of the pictures in the book are the work of one professional photographer who has had unique access to McCartney from 1976 to the present. Her exclusive photos, taken during tours, record signings, private parties, press conferences, award ceremonies, backstage moments, and numerous personal encounters, show the many faces of McCartney-the musician, devoted husband, proud father, environmentalist, and animal rights activist. Includes interviews with Paul and many of his fans.
The Unknown Paul McCartney by Ian Peel
For over three decades, Paul McCartney has initiated and participated in projects that have taken him far from the kind of music associated with the Beatles, Wings, and his career as a solo artist. From as far back as the mid–sixties, there have been experimental solo projects, both under his own name and incognito: The Beatles Carnival of Light, Thrillington the recent Fireman dance CDs as well as less–publicized activities, all of which Ian Peel fully details here for the first time. In writing this book, Peel interviewed many of the musicians who have worked closely with McCartney, including Thrillington mainspring Richard Hewson, bassist Herbie Flowers, psychedelic artist David Vaughan, Gong's David Allen, and Frank Zappa collaborator Mike Keneally. What emerges is a unique insight into Paul McCartney's little–known contribution to avant–garde music. Ian Peel is a British music journalist with a special interest in digital dance music and other experimental forms.
Paul McCartney Discography
1963 Please Please Me UK album most of which was on Introducing...The Beatles in the US1964 With The Beatles UK
1964 Meet The Beatles US
1964 The Beatles Second Album US
1964 Beatles For Sale US
1964 A Hard Day's Night UK version with some of the songs from the US Something New album included
1964 Something New US
1964 Beatles '65 US
1965 The Early Beatles - US - Capitol's version of Introducing The Beatles
1965 Beatles VI - US - another Capitol "catch up" album
1965 Help!
1965 Rubber Soul
1966 Yesterday and Today
1966 Revolver
1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1967 Magical Mystery Tour
1967 The Family Way (movie soundtrack)
1968 The Beatles (The White Album)
1969 Yellow Submarine movie soundtrack
1969 Abbey Road
1970 Let It Be
1970 McCartney
1971 Ram
1971 Wild Life
1973 Red Rose Speedway
1973 Band on the Run
1975 Venus and Mars
1976 Wings at the Speed of Sound
1976 Wings Over America Live double album (1976 tour)
1977 Thrillington Yup, it really is Paul, re-arranging and re-recording the songs from RAM minus the lead vocals.
1978 London Town
1979 Back to the Egg
1980 McCartney II
1982 Tug of War
1983 Pipes of Peace
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street
1986 Press to Play
1989 Flowers in the Dirt
1990 Paul McCartney All The Best
1990 Wings Greatest collection
1990 Tripping the Live Fantastic double album recorded during Paul's 1989-1990 tour
1991 CHOBA B CCCP Back in the USSR Live
1991 Unplugged The Official Bootleg live MTV concert
1991 Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
1993 Off the Ground
1993 The Beatles 1962-1966 collection
1993 The Beatles 1967-1970 collection
1993 Paul Is Live in Concert on the New World Tour
1997 Flaming Pie
1997 Standing Stone
1999 Run Devil Run
1999 Working Classical: Orchestral and Chamber music by Paul McCartney
2000 The Beatles 1 (number one hits collection)
2000 Liverpool Sound Collage
2001 Wingspan Hits and History (remastered collection)
2001 Driving Rain
2005 Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard
Visit the Paul McCartney Photo Gallery
and for Beatle movie fans, the Hard Day's Night page.