Current Paul McCartney news thread (interviews, articles, miscellaneous)

I second you on these limited releases. I just want music to be available. I would much rather be able to go into a store and just buy an album that everyone else also owns and pay $20 than to be able to brag to people that I own something that sells for $1,000.
Let's just make music available for fans to buy and listen to. I don't need fancy foil numbering or only one of 300 in existence.

 

Agreed, but I scramble to get stuff like this, especially when it is limited. I wasn’t aware of that Spanish EP with the only physical release of Whole Life upon release, but I remember when I did hear about it, there was a copy on Amazon for about $30. I thought it was kinda pricey, so I researched it for a day. When I went back to get it, it was gone. I saw one copy on eBay over the next (many) years that went for crazy money, and then lucked out getting one on discogs a couple years later.

Did you pounce on one of these sets? I know you’re as much/more of a completist than I am. $100 would’ve been nice, but I must say I don’t think SIX (!) 180g LPs in a numbered box with booklet, etc. is outrageous at twice that, so I’m glad I’m going to get one. And, most importantly, the MUSIC is out there for people who just want that.

 

I do scramble to buy these sets also. But in honesty I find myself scrambling just because I know it's the ONLY way to own them other than paying three times the price later on eBay. This makes it less fun. When I was a kid I just loved going to the record store and collecting albums one at a time and listening to them with my dad. Now as I'm older I feel like I have to scramble just to own an item. It really makes it less fun. I had more fun calling a friend in 1997 and saying "hey I got that young boy single from the UK that has broomstick!" Rather than now saying "yep I shelled out $450 and got the BBB" I feel I'm buying now to keep up to be aa completest instead of following the music. Or I guess I should say years ago it felt like following a dream and now it feels like purchasing pieces of a busines.
I have not gotten round to the EP with whole life. I have the digital download but I would like the physical release. It's on my list as something I'd love to have when money/opportunity allows. But that is a great example of I'd rather it just be available for a fan to grab instead of some rare thing for bragging rights. I'll trade away all my rare bragging rights albums now to just be one of the millions who can easily obtain anything.

 

Probably music of Destiny 2 with no Paul's collaboration. But everything is possible. Perhaps unknown music with Paul. Destiny 2 has an Easter egg with Hope of The Future (Between the game players the song is known as 'Destiny Theme'). I don't know if all the versions will appear on volume 2, especially the RSD mixes.

In theory the volume 1 is the only volume with Paul...

 

Mary McCartney directs new Linda McCartney Foods film in support of her pioneering mother’s vegetarian legacy

"Featuring rarely-seen, footage of Paul and Linda McCartney from the family’s personal archives, the film also nods to Linda’s pioneering vegetarian era with original music from Wings as the soundtrack ."

 

Think that's Chrissie Hynde narrating.

 

Linda McCartney Foods - Kindness

 

Linda McCartney Foods on Twitter:

"Linda McCartney Foods was a brand born from the beliefs of a person with a genuinely kind heart. Who wouldn’t want to be a kinder person?"

 

Am I missing something or is there only a 45 second trailer and no link to see the whole film?

 

I believe the trailer is all that's available so far.

 

Must have been that "Watch the full version now and learn about the cast below" thing that fooled me.

 

Yeah, now I'm confused too.

 

https://inews.co.uk/culture/the-beatles-back-first-animal-requiem-concert-for-deceased-pets/

"Rachel Fuller, musician wife of The Who's Pete Townshend, has composed a requiem for lost pets, with help from Sir Paul McCartney"

 

People think this pothole looks like Paul McCartney

 

Now we know how many potholes it takes to fill the Albert Hall...

 

More info from Pete Townshend Rachel Fuller's new Musical Work to celebrate animals

 

Speaking as animal lover, I think it's touching that Rachel would come up with this idea (and can see why Paul would quickly add his support). Also kind of nice that Pete had a dog named for his departed bandmate ("misspelling" and all).

 

Animal Requiem

 

And I suppose that is a Rickenbacker bass to the left of him..?

 

It's rather aprapo, considering his mouth was a pit of a "pothole", back in the seventies.

 

Less Meat, Less Heat – A Recipe for Our Planet by Paul McCartney

 

Animal Requiem

10 Blackbird (feat. Paul McCartney)
by Rachel Fuller, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Robert Ziegler (featuring Paul McCartney) 2:22

Album Only

Amazon's Pre-order links:

Digital (USA Store, expected January 31, 2019): Animal Requiem
CD (UK Store, will be released on March 8, 2019): Animal Requiem

 

Hm, first time he's/they are allowing something like this?

 

Hopefully the last

 

It's not very good, is it?