Latest Release
- 14 JUN 2024
- 6 Songs
- McCartney II (Archive Collection) · 1980
- Ram · 1971
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
- One Hand Clapping (Live Sessions) · 2024
Essential Albums
- Recorded under less than ideal circumstances in Lagos, Nigeria after two key members quit, Band on the Run was Wings' make-or-break moment. The rough-and-ready studio sound adds some welcome grit on rockers like "Jet" and the affectionate John Lennon tribute "Let Me Roll It". Elsewhere, the title track is one of McCartney's most soaring multi-part pop masterpieces, and "Bluebird" is a tender acoustic love song. Quirkier material, like the playful "Mrs. Vandebilt" and "Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)", adds even more depth.
Artist Playlists
- Sir Paul has proven himself, time and again, as one of pop music’s greatest craftsman.
- The camera has always loved the Beatle’s legendary charisma and smile.
- Playfully, silly or sublime—this is the sound of Paul in love.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- Hear some of the artists influenced by McCartney's monumental songbook.
- A collection of gorgeous songcraft from Sir Paul—as played by other artists.
Compilations
Appears On
- The Umoza Music Project
- Percy Thrills Thrillington
More To Hear
- Revisiting the Halftime Shows of rock legends.
- Revisiting legendary shows in Super Bowl Halftime history.
- The legend reveals his songwriting secrets to Nile Rodgers.
- Paul McCartney on his new album recorded during quarantine.
- For all the lovers out there...
- Annie shares Christmas memories and her family traditions.
- Music by Lauren Aquilina and Young Thug, plus rock classics.
More To See
About Paul McCartney
As Beatlemania was transforming rock ’n’ roll from passing teen fad to permanent pop-cultural movement, Paul McCartney (born in Liverpool in 1942) became the driving force behind the band’s rapid, dramatic maturation. In just two years, he had graduated from the Little Richard worship of 1963’s “I Saw Her Standing There” to the exquisite orchestral balladry of “Yesterday”—a shift that intensified the contrast between McCartney and his increasingly acerbic songwriting partner, John Lennon. But as The Beatles’ entered their late-’60s experimental phase—during which Lennon’s avant-garde impulses came to the fore—McCartney’s traditionalism constituted its own form of radicalism. Within the band’s psychedelic milieu, his embrace of pre-rock forms, like classical (“Eleanor Rigby”) and English music-hall serenades (“When I’m Sixty-Four”), felt no less surreal than The Beatles' use of tape-loop freak-outs and sitar drones. (And this is to say nothing of Paul's sublime bass playing, which elevated the four-string from rhythmic undercurrent to melodic focal point.) His post-Beatles albums have proven equally uncanny and influential: 1971’s art-folk opus Ram provided the lo-fi schematic for future generations of DIY home-recording artists, while the arena-rattling roar of “Jet”, from McCartney's subsequent band Wings’ 1973 LP Band on the Run, shows why he’s become a muse to hard rockers such as Dave Grohl. And by continually collaborating with the hitmakers of the day—from Michael Jackson in the 1980s to Rihanna and Kanye West in the 2010s—he has remained a voracious pop omnivore, as connected to music's past as its future.
- HOMETOWN
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- BORN
- 1942
- GENRE
- Rock