Paul McCartney has made a New Year’s resolution. He wants to finish his next album.
In a brief question-and-answer session with fans on his website, McCartney confirmed that he had been “working on a lot of songs” but was putting off the album because of his “Got Back” tour (which began in 2022 and includes a special London tour this month Show with Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood ended) had to “put aside”.
“I hope to get back to this and finish many of these songs,” McCartney wrote. “So what about that? My New Year’s resolution is to finish a new album!”
McCartney last released a solo record in 2020. “McCartney III” was a follow-up of sorts to his two equally self-titled LPs, 1970s “McCartney” and 1980s “McCartney II,” although it directly followed his 2018 solo album “Egypt Station.”
In 2021, the singer also released the remix album “McCartney III Imagined”. This LP featured a number of new collaborators and remixes, including Beck, St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers, Damon Albarn, Khruangbin, Dominic Fike, Josh Homme and Anderson .Paak.
Paul McCartney and “Now And Then”
Although McCartney hasn’t released any new solo music recently, he did release the last Beatles song, “Now and Then,” a year ago. The title is based on a piano demo recording that John Lennon made in 1977 and that Yoko Ono gave to the surviving members of the band in 1994. At the time, George Harrison recorded some guitar parts for possible inclusion in the Beatles’ Anthology box sets, but the quality of the original demo recording was so poor that the group decided to abandon the song.
However, years later, McCartney was able to reprocess the demo using the same technology that Peter Jackson’s team had developed to restore and preserve the archived audio recordings for the Get Back film project.
McCartney and Starr recorded new drums and vocals, which they mixed with Lennon’s demo and Harrison’s old guitar parts. “Now and Then” was recently nominated for several Grammys, including Record of the Year.