Paul McCartney to release "Memory Almost Full" in June

Paul McCartney's new album, titled Memory Almost Full, will be released on June 5th. The album, which is being produced by David Kahne, who helmed McCartney's 2001 Driving Rain set, follows the framework of most of McCartney's work over the past 25 years, including full band tracks mixed with songs featuring McCartney on all instruments.

Memory Almost Full features a "15-minute Abbey Road-style musical suite," and will be Macca's first for the Starbucks/Concord Music Group's offshoot label Hear Music.

The new set is McCartney's 21st mainstream solo studio album, and his followup to 2005's Grammy-nominated Chaos And Creation In The Backyard.

McCartney's Memory Almost Full is available for pre-order through aol.music.com.

The collection, Macca's first album away from longtime record label EMI, will coincidentally be released on the eve of the 45th anniversary of Beatles' audition for the record label. The album also marks the first time in 23 years that he's released a studio set within two years of its predecessor.

June 1st marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Paul McCartney will turn 65 on June 18th.

In other Beatles-related news:

The soundtrack to Ringo Starr's 2005 Soundstage concert which aired on PBS and was announced for a May release, has been pushed back until September according to the Beatles' fan website Abbey Road Best (abbeyrd.best.vwh.net).

The concert, which was taped near Chicago, featured Starr and his former band the Roundheads tackling such Beatles and solo classics as "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Octopus' Garden," "Yellow Submarine," "Photograph," "It Don't Come Easy," "Back Off Boogaloo," and others.

According to Starr's longtime producer Mark Hudson, Starr's upcoming studio album Liverpool 8 is due out in June.
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