Paul McCartney: New album titles embraces modern life
Paul McCartney says that the title for his upcoming album, Memory Almost Full, seems to sum up the current of the times. McCartney, who'll release the album on June 5th, explained that, "Memory Almost Full sprung to mind. It's a phrase that seemed to embrace modern life; in modern life our brains can get a bit overloaded. I realized I had also seen it come up on my phone a few times. When I started bouncing the idea round with some friends they nearly all got different meanings out of it, but they all said they loved it. So the feedback helped solidify the title."
New home footage of McCartney jamming on the set of his upcoming video for the song "Dance Tonight" can be found on his website myeyesight.com. McCartney can be seen playing both bass and drums in the clip while performing with several unidentified musicians.
McCartney's new single "Ever Present Past" was released to radio on April 20th.
Author Christopher Sanford, who wrote the recent biography, titled McCartney, says that even during the Beatles days, it was McCartney who was constantly pushing the group to find new sounds in the studio: "Paul was the guy, I think, who was saying, 'You know, we can take this to a new direction. We can try these instruments that have never been tried. Let's get (producer) George Martin to have an orchestra playing out of tune! And that was all McCartney."
In other Beatles-related news:
Recent reports suggest that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr plan to complete the third unfinished John Lennon demo they began in 1994 with George Harrison for The Beatles Anthology project. The story has been making the rounds since December, after McCartney stated that he regretted never finishing the track called "Now And Then." The track was left unfinished was because a large buzz found on the demo could not be separated from Lennon's performance.
Britain's Daily Mail quotes producer Jeff Lynne describing the track, and went on to report that the song is to be completed and possibly used as part of the upcoming online Beatles downloads.
Journalist Rip Rense, who initially reported on the story over a decade ago, commented to the unofficial Beatles website Abbey Road Best (abbeyrd.best.vwh.net), "Please note that The Daily Mail article names no sources, and that the Lynne quote is the one made to me for a Los Angeles Times article in 1995. This article looks like a fabrication, a circulation booster, nothing more."
The Beatles' recording of Lennon's "Now And Then" isn't the only unfinished Beatles reunion song in the vaults. In May 1995, the group allegedly started work an all-new McCartney-Harrison collaboration called "All For Love," which also remains unreleased.
In October 2005, Lennon's widow Yoko Ono talked about a further "electronic" Beatles reunion using the unfinished Lennon track. She told The Washington Post that, "I sent those songs to them when the situation was quite different. Now that George is gone, I don't know if the same would apply."
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New home footage of McCartney jamming on the set of his upcoming video for the song "Dance Tonight" can be found on his website myeyesight.com. McCartney can be seen playing both bass and drums in the clip while performing with several unidentified musicians.
McCartney's new single "Ever Present Past" was released to radio on April 20th.
Author Christopher Sanford, who wrote the recent biography, titled McCartney, says that even during the Beatles days, it was McCartney who was constantly pushing the group to find new sounds in the studio: "Paul was the guy, I think, who was saying, 'You know, we can take this to a new direction. We can try these instruments that have never been tried. Let's get (producer) George Martin to have an orchestra playing out of tune! And that was all McCartney."
In other Beatles-related news:
Recent reports suggest that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr plan to complete the third unfinished John Lennon demo they began in 1994 with George Harrison for The Beatles Anthology project. The story has been making the rounds since December, after McCartney stated that he regretted never finishing the track called "Now And Then." The track was left unfinished was because a large buzz found on the demo could not be separated from Lennon's performance.
Britain's Daily Mail quotes producer Jeff Lynne describing the track, and went on to report that the song is to be completed and possibly used as part of the upcoming online Beatles downloads.
Journalist Rip Rense, who initially reported on the story over a decade ago, commented to the unofficial Beatles website Abbey Road Best (abbeyrd.best.vwh.net), "Please note that The Daily Mail article names no sources, and that the Lynne quote is the one made to me for a Los Angeles Times article in 1995. This article looks like a fabrication, a circulation booster, nothing more."
The Beatles' recording of Lennon's "Now And Then" isn't the only unfinished Beatles reunion song in the vaults. In May 1995, the group allegedly started work an all-new McCartney-Harrison collaboration called "All For Love," which also remains unreleased.
In October 2005, Lennon's widow Yoko Ono talked about a further "electronic" Beatles reunion using the unfinished Lennon track. She told The Washington Post that, "I sent those songs to them when the situation was quite different. Now that George is gone, I don't know if the same would apply."
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