

retail edition will also release the record on white vinyl, limited to 4,000 copies.

Third Man Records will release the standard 180-gram, red vinyl - limited to 3,000 hand-numbered copies - and a “333” edition limited to 333 copies and pressed on yellow, polka-dotted vinyl made from 33 recycled vinyl copies of McCartney and McCartney II. In addition to digital and CD, McCartney III will be pressed on vinyl in a variety of ways. It also includes photos from McCartney’s cellphone. I had no idea this would end up as an album.”Īs the photos for McCartney and McCartney II were shot by McCartney’s late wife Linda, the photos for McCartney III were photographed by his daughter Mary, as well as his nephew Sonny. “It was about making music for yourself rather than making music that has to do a job. “Each day I’d start recording with the instrument I wrote the song on and then gradually layer it all up it was a lot of fun,” he added.

And then when it was done, I thought, ‘What will I do next?’ I had some stuff I’d worked on over the years, but sometimes time would run out and it would be left half-finished. “I had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track. “I was living lockdown life on my farm with my family and I would go to my studio every day,” McCartney said in a statement. He created a new section for the song, giving birth to the opener “Long Tailed Winter Bird.” The process began when he returned to “When Winter Comes,” an unreleased track from the Nineties co-produced by George Martin. He subsequently overdubbed bass and drums. McCartney III was recorded earlier this year in Sussex, England, cut from live takes of the musician on vocals, guitar, and piano. We can't wait for you to hear it! – MPLĭays after teasing a new album on social media, Paul McCartney has announced McCartney III, out December 11th via Capitol Records.Ī follow-up to his 1970 self-titled solo debut and 1980’s McCartney II, the new album features the musician playing all the instruments he wrote and recorded every song. Thank you to everyone for your patience, support and excitement for the album. Unforeseeable production delays have forced the release date of Paul's all-new all-Paul album 'McCartney III' to be moved back one week to December 18, 2020.

Stream Paul McCartney’s, McCartney III Imagined, below.UPDATE (11/19): Paul McCartney has pushed back the release of his new album, McCartney III, to December 18th, citing “unforeseeable production delays” on Twitter. This kind of breathtaking present day star power on one album is notable on its own, but to bring this many current internationally acclaimed artists together on a personally curated remix album is a testament to the level respect Paul McCartney still has to his contemporaries and rising stars alike. Each artist gives their reimagined take on an album track, breathing a breath of fresh rejuvenating air into the album. Paak, Phoebe Bridgers, Khruangbin, Damon Albarn (of Gorrillaz), St. This remix album enlists the help of stellar line up of artists including Anderson. Producing a UK number 1 solo album at this stage of his career is a remarkable feat in and of itself, but today the multi-Grammy award winner calls on the talents of a slew of TSIS favorites for hand picked-remix duties with the release of McCartney III Imagined. In 2020, the legendary Englishman, wrote and released McCartney III, the third in a trilogy of true solo albums that saw Paul play every instrument. Starting as a member of one of music’s most influential groups in history, The Beatles, McCartney later went on to have wildly successful solo career, and continues to be an active figure in the industry. Anyone who considers themselves a music fan should know the name Paul McCartney.
