Paul McCartney Unveils New Album, Says He's Plans To Live To 100
By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta
December 18, 2020
Paul McCartney's 18th solo album and third truly solo album, McCartney III, arrived Friday.
The former Beatle and sometimes one-man band, McCartney says he started working on the new album back in March when pandemic-related lockdowns left him with little else to do to keep busy but write and record music.
McCartney told Chris Rock in an interview Thursday evening for YouTube 'RELEASED' that he initially dropped into the studio this spring to work on something for a film project. One thing led to another and he began ironing out old song ideas and coming up with new ones, recording every instrument and every vocal harmony by himself.
The result is a typically playful McCartney album with shades of introspection on "Deep Deep Way," matured views on romance on "When Winter Comes," veiled social commentary on "Women and Wives" and whispers of his iconic past, like on the admittedly Beatle-y ninth track, "Seize the Day."
Rock prodded McCartney about his ongoing vitality and ceaseless creativity, asking if he's ever felt like he needed a break from his career.
"I'm still on the first wind, working up to the second wind, and I am gonna live to 100," Sir Paul replied. "This is the aim, 'cause if you do, you get a telegram from the Queen. Now, unfortunately, they don't have telegrams these days, so I suppose it'd be an email. And if I'm 100, that puts the Queen at 120s or something. So, who know? But that's my plan, you know. You've gotta have a plan, right?"
And McCartney doesn't have plans to stay off the road for too long, either. He joked that he has no qualms about performing from a wheelchair, if need be.
McCartney also celebrated the new album release by dropping music videos for three of the 11 album tracks, "Women And Wives," Find My Way" and "Pretty Boys."