{"id":2413,"date":"2020-10-21T14:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2020-10-22T19:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:05:04","slug":"paul-mccartney-iii-11dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/paul-mccartney-iii-11dec\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Paul McCartney \u2013 McCartney III<\/em>, out 11 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paul<\/a><\/p>\n

2020 marks 50 years since Paul McCartney<\/strong> released his self-titled first solo album. Featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song, the effortless charms of 1970s McCartney<\/em> have only grown in stature and influence over time. The chart-topping album would signify not only a creative rebirth for Paul, but also as a template for generations of indie and lo-fi musicians seeking to emulate its warm homespun vibe and timeless tunes including \u2018Maybe I\u2019m Amazed\u2019, \u2018Every Night\u2019 and \u2018The Lovely Linda\u2019.<\/p>\n

Today Paul announces the third album in a trilogy of classics, McCartney III<\/em><\/strong>. Paul\u2019s eighteenth solo studio album follows 2018\u2019s Egypt Station<\/em>, and has been uniquely \u201cMade in Rockdown\u201d.<\/p>\n

Paul hadn\u2019t planned to release an album in 2020, but in the isolation of \u201cRockdown,\u201d he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones. Before long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III<\/em>: a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970\u2019s McCartney<\/em> and 1980\u2019s McCartney II<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Recorded earlier this year in Sussex, McCartney III is mostly built from live takes of Paul on vocals and guitar or piano, overdubbing his bass playing, drumming, etc. atop that foundation. The process first sparked when Paul returned to an unreleased track from the early \u201990s, \u2018When Winter Comes\u2019 (co-produced by George Martin). Paul crafted a new passage for the song, giving rise to album opener \u2018Long Tailed Winter Bird\u2019 \u2013 while \u2018When Winter Comes\u2019, featuring its new 2020 intro \u2018Winter Bird\u2019, became the new album\u2019s grand finale.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the new album, Paul said: \u201cI was living lockdown life on my farm with my family and I would go to my studio every day. I had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track and then when it was done I thought what will I do next? I had some stuff I\u2019d worked on over the years but sometimes time would run out and it would be left half-finished so I started thinking about what I had. Each day I\u2019d start recording with the instrument I wrote the song on and then gradually layer it all up, it was a lot of fun. It was about making music for yourself rather than making music that has to do a job. So, I just did stuff I fancied doing. I had no idea this would end up as an album.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney III<\/em>\u2019s vast and intimate range of modes and moods, from soul searching to wistful, from playful to raucous and all points between \u2013 captured with some of the same gear from Paul\u2019s Rude Studio used as far back as 1971 Wings sessions. And Paul\u2019s array of vintage instruments he played on the new album have an even more storied history, including Bill Black of Elvis Presley\u2019s original trio\u2019s double bass alongside Paul\u2019s own iconic Hofner violin bass, and a mellotron from Abbey Road Studios used on Beatles recordings, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

Note<\/em>: the LP is available on numbered white vinyl<\/strong>, exclusive to indie shops.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re offering McCartney III<\/em><\/a> at special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n

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2020 marks 50 years since Paul McCartney released his self-titled first solo album. Featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song, the effortless charms of 1970s McCartney have only grown in stature and influence over time. The chart-topping album would signify not only a creative rebirth for Paul, but also as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,1211,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}