PAUL McCARTNEY AND FOOTBALL

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We love that there is no way of getting away from football at the moment. The World Cup is in every bar, pub, newspaper, restaurant, home and public space here in London!

If the “beautiful game" itself doesn’t whip you into a frenzy of excitement, then perhaps the heart-warming moments between the fans might lift your spirits. Hint: Search online for “Fan Spirit World Cup” - it’s one of our favourite things about the whole tournament! 

World Cup fever, and sports in general, can sometimes be a little bit like Marmite: either you’re a lover, or not! This got us thinking, which is Paul?

PMc.com: “We’ve been wondering whether or not you are a sports fan? What sports do you like to watch?”

Paul: “I do like to watch sport on TV. I think because my wife Nancy is American, and my first wife Linda was also American, I’ve got into sports I perhaps otherwise wouldn’t have gotten in to. Like American football, basketball. And college basketball, that’s really pretty interesting. But my main interest is watching the athletics, or as the American’s would say: track and field. I like that, that’s really my favourite.

“I also like English football. I like all the big events really! A few weeks ago the Liverpool team played Real Madrid in Kiev, so I was really into that. That was a big match for me, of course, coming from Liverpool. Now the thing is my family are actually Everton supporters because my dad was born in Everton. So we’ve always traditionally been blue. But years ago I met Kenny Dalglish who was first a player and then a manager for the Liverpool team. And he was a bit of a fan and he used to bring the team to a few of our shows, so I got to know him and like him. So I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to support the Liverpool team as well!’ So it’s sacrilege really because you’re not meant to support both, like Chelsea and Tottenham. But because they are both Liverpool teams and I have allegiances to both, so my football teams would be Everton and Liverpool… or Ever-pool!”
 
PMc.com: “Do you have a message for the England team for the W­­­­­­­­orld Cup?”
 
Paul: “Please win the World Cup, England! That would be a bit good. I’ll be crossing my fingers like the rest of us and hoping for the best!”

So, England, if you’re reading this: no pressure! We’re right behind you!

Which team are you cheering for? We’d love to find out so let us know in the comments below…

Paul playing football with Wings guitarist Henry McCullough and Martha taken by Linda #ThrowbackThursday #TBT pic.twitter.com/6yNeLbK2Yw

— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) 12 de junio de 2014

Damon Albarn says Kanye West ‘trapped’ Paul McCartney in an ‘abusive’ collaboration

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Damon Albarn says Kanye West ‘trapped’ Paul McCartney in an ‘abusive’ collaboration
Andrew Trendell
Jun 28, 2018


Damon Albarn, Kanye West and Paul McCartney Credit: Getty

"Kanye West is all about Kanye West. He's like all people who feed off other people"

Damon Albarn has hit out at Kanye West for ‘trapping’ Paul McCartney in an ‘abusive’ collaboration on the track ‘FourFiveSeconds’.

The Blur frontman, who this week releases his new album ‘The Now Now’ with Gorillaz, was speaking to Fabrice Pliskin from French Magazine Nouvel Obs when he slammed the rapper for his treatment of The Beatles icon.

“Don’t get me started on Kanye West,” Albarn said, adding of West and McCartney’s collaboration with Rihanna on ‘FourFiveSeconds’: “I’ve got a problem with that abusive collaboration. Kanye West trapped Paul McCartney.”

“I see Paul McCartney in the video,” Damon added, “but I don’t hear Paul McCartney on the track”.

After arguing that Kanye just wanted to “have the name ‘Paul McCartney’ in headlines”, Albarn went on to say that he advised Sir Paul to avoid collaborating with the rapper.

“Before the collaboration, I sent Paul a text, [saying] “be careful”, because I personally felt that it was not an equal relationship… I just felt that Kanye was abusive.”

“But you know, he [McCartney] didn’t pay any attention to it. He is Paul McCartney, after all. And Kanye West is Kanye West. Kanye West is all about Kanye West. He’s like all people who feed off other people.”

After the journalist compared Kanye to David Bowie, Albarn replied that Bowie was “very different to Kanye West”. “I know all three of these people… Bowie, Paul McCartney and Kanye West,” Damon said. “I would say they’re all very different… to say the least.”




Macca recently described his experience of working with West, revealing he “was tootling around on guitar, and Kanye spent a lot of time looking at pictures of Kim“.

“We ended up just talking a lot,” said McCartney told DIY. “I played a few little things and one of them ended up as ‘FourFiveSeconds’ with Rihanna. It’s more a question of me feeling lucky that these people are interested [in working with me] and think that I can bring something to it. For me, I feel great. I like diversity.”


Paul McCartney and Kanye West

Sir Paul continued: “We had two or three afternoons where we just hung out together in a Beverly Hills hotel in the bungalows out the back, and he had his engineer and was set up with a couple of microphones in case anything happened,” he continued. “I was tootling around on guitar, and Kanye spent a lot of time just looking at pictures of Kim [Kardashian] on his computer. I’m thinking, ‘are we ever gonna get around to writing?!’

“But it turns out he was writing. That’s his muse. He was listening to this riff I was doing and obviously he knew in his mind that he could use that, so he took it, sped it up and then somehow he got Rihanna to sing on it. She’s a big favourite of mine anyway, so that just came without me lifting a finger.”

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Note to Paul McCartney: please stop
Enablers are allowing Sir Paul to look sillier than his love songs
BY  SUSAN G. COLE
JUNE 26, 2018



Paul McCartney recently previewed two songs from his upcoming album, Egypt Station, and the vocals are just awful. Why does nobody seem to notice?

People notice him, alright. The vid of his 23-minute Carpool Karaoke segment with Late Late Night Show host James Corden went viral in a nanosecond. It’s the failing pipes that everyone’s ignoring.

When you watched it, did you hear that McCartney can no longer sing? Probably not, off the top, because, Corden has very strong pipes and for the early part of the segment, he carries McCartney along nicely.

Then the cute Beatle sits at the upright piano in his original family home and sings – croaks, actually – a few bars of When I’m Sixty-Four and the truth comes out. He really should give it up.

Please note that, though my favourite Beatle was actually George and my favourite Beatles song is While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I have been a defender of Paul McCartney since forever.

When everyone was celebrating John Lennon’s intellectual heft, calling Paul the lightweight, I insisted it was Paul who gave the band most of those spectacular melodies. When purists complained about his busy bass lines, I knew they just proved his magical musicality.

When McCartney was mercilessly mocked because of his passion for his first wife, Linda Eastman, I always appreciated the fact that this very young man, adored by everyone on the planet and lacking the freedom to have a personal life, just wanted to be loved up by one intriguing woman. And I admired the courage it took for Paul to write Silly Love Songs and push back against the haters.

When John wanted to stop touring, Paul was upset. He loved performing, the hysterical fans and the energy they gave him. He formed the band Wings, harnessing the world’s best young players in the process – so what if he also wanted Eastman to play onstage with him? – precisely so he could continue touring. And those concerts, in which he didn’t fail to crank out tunes from the Beatles catalogue, were extraordinary.

The solo artist McCartney remained one of the best live performers around until early into the new millennium. I still stand by the claim I made in the late 90s that he was the best white male rock singer in the world – I’ll take the Helter Skelter vocal over anything sung by Geddy Lee, Robert Plant, Axl Rose, anybody.

I never saw the Beatles live, but I did see Paul in concert in the early 2000s after I was assigned to cover his pre-show news conference. When I was 12 and collecting Beatles bubble gum cards, I made a solemn vow to myself: before I die, I will be in the same room as a Beatle – and Ringo counts.

And there I was in a room of 30 journalists – including veterans who broke the cardinal rule and brought their albums to be autographed – with McCartney. He offered seats to the show to anyone who wanted one and I couldn’t refuse. Fourth row centre, it turned out. Beside me at the Air Canada Centre sat a well-known daily newspaper music critic, who was maybe in his mid-20s.

“Aren’t you excited about this?” I asked him.

“Well,” he said, “my mother is.”

But midway through the three-hour concert, as McCartney was plowing through hit after hit and into his acoustic set (note that he practically invented the Unplugged concert concept), the critic, in the middle of Blackbird, nudged me.

“I get it now,” he said gently.

These days, McCartney couldn’t get away with an acoustic concert if he tried. His pipes are wobbly and he can’t seem to get enough breath to create any tone. This fact seems to have eluded just about everyone. That includes Rolling Stone, whose critic raved about Kisses On The Bottom, McCartney’s 2012 recording of standards, which even studio technologies couldn’t salvage, and the Grammy Awards TV producers, who couldn’t resist inviting a Beatle onstage to sing from his latest album. The performance was embarrassing.

Now, along comes Egypt Station, and the songs he’s released are unbearable.

I don’t begrudge a legend the right to continue performing. Carole King still tours, but she never could sing in the first place. Liza Minnelli is not what she was but can still knock her fans out with the sheer force of her personality. The pianist Arthur Rubinstein continued to perform long past his prime, happily mangling the Chopin pieces he was famous for playing. His fans loved it – Chopin, even badly played, can still be inspiring. But if Rubinstein had been playing Bach – the equivalent of Paul trying to sing the songs he used to sing with such sweet purity – the experience would have been godawful. 

People will doubtless continue to pay hundreds of ducats for the privilege of seeing a member of the greatest band ever perform live. Certainly the scores who poured into the pub for his surprise appearance on Carpool Karaoke were beside themselves.

But McCartney surely still has ears and can hear that he’s lost it. How can he stand it?

Show a little self-respect, Sir Paul: time to stop.

Paul McCartney joins his elegant wife Nancy for a romantic stroll in Mykonos

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Sir Paul McCartney, 76, joins his elegant wife Nancy Shevell, 58, for a romantic stroll in Mykonos
By EVE BUCKLAND FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 26 June 2018

They have been happily loved-up for more than a decade.

And Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell looked closer than ever as they enjoyed a cosy stroll in Mykonos, Greece on Friday.

The Beatles icon, 76, and his businesswoman wife, 58, were the picture of marital bliss as they walked down the street looking effortlessly as they revelled in some downtime from their hectic schedules.


Happy couple: Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Nancy Shevell looked closer than ever as they enjoyed a cosy stroll in Mykonos, Greece on Friday

Blending in with his fellow holidaymakers, Here Comes The Sun hitmaker Paul looked effortlessly cool in a blush pink fitted shirt and black chinos, paired with tan sandals for his walk.

His glamorous wife showed off her toned figure in a lacy white floral dress with ruffled sleeves.

Giving a glimpse of her honed legs, the dress flowed into a semi-sheer floor-length skirt.

Her brunette tresses were styled into a sleek half updo while her pretty features were enhanced with a radiant dusting of make-up.


Blending in: Here Comes The Sun hitmaker Paul, 76, looked effortlessly cool in a blush pink fitted shirt and black chinos, paired with tan sandals for his walk

Steal Nancy's summer style with a Stella McCartney lace dress

There are plenty of perks that come with being married to Sir Paul McCartney. But the one we're most jealous of? Unlimited access to the Stella McCartney archives of course! Here, Nancy Shevell was spotted out about about with husband Paul on the Greek Island of Mykonos wearing Stella's Erika dress. The dress hails from the designer's Resort '17 collection, but luckily it's now on sale at The Outnet. Sadly it's still a whopping £1438, although it's quite a mark down from the original price of £2874.

We love how Nancy has styled her holiday look too. Paired with flat sandals, statement earrings and a half-up-half-down 'do, Nancy look picture perfect. We'll be channeling her exact look this summer; think Riviera-chic with a bohemian edge.

And you don't have to spend a Stella McCartney-eqsue fortune to get the look either. Check out our edit of alternatives below with dresses from the likes of Zara, Vero Moda and Free People.

She added a touch of sparkle with gold chandelier earrings. 

The Paul and Nancy love story goes back to November 2007 when the lovebirds first started dating.

They were later married in a romantic ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall, in London in October 2011.

Going strong with their romance, Paul gushed about his wife during an episode of Australia's 60 Minutes in June 2017.

'She's a party girl. She's a music fan,' he said. 'She actually came to see me a while ago, when I was playing quite Madison Square Garden.' 



Macca was first married to Linda Eastman in 1969 and the couple were together until Linda died of breast cancer at age 56 in 1998.

The rocker adopted Linda's daughter from her first marriage Heather, 54 and the couple raised three biological children together: Mary, 48, Stella, 46, and James, 40.

Sir Paul went onto marry Heather Mills in 2002 but the former flames, who share daughter Beatrice Milly, separated in 2006 and they were divorced in March 2008.


 Elegant: Glamorous Nancy showed off her toned figure in a lacy white floral dress with ruffled sleeves

PAUL McCARTNEY HOPES FOR INTIMATE SHOWS BEFORE UPCOMING TOUR

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PAUL McCARTNEY HOPES FOR INTIMATE SHOWS BEFORE UPCOMING TOUR
MARTIN KIELTY
Monday 25 June 2018



Paul McCartney said U.S. tour dates were being planned in support of his upcoming album, Egypt Station, and noted that he hoped his band could perform some intimate shows during their time on the road.

His first LP release since 2013’s New is due on Sept. 7, and the only confirmed live appearance so far is at Austin City Limits in October. Earlier this month, McCartney played a tiny Liverpool pub, where he debuted the song “Come On to Me,” which was released as part of a double-A side single last week. In 2016, he played a small club show in between his Desert Trip appearances.

“Before August, we might just do a couple of little gigs, just because they're fun,” McCartney told the BBC in a new interview. "We once played the Hundred Club [in London], we once played the Cavern [in Liverpool], and those little gigs, they're really nice to do. ... It not only takes you back to where you started, but there's the intimacy in the audience, and you can have a lot of fun. And you sometimes don't feel like it's quite so precious. Because if there's 40,000 people who paid all that money, you've gotta think about pleasing them. If there's only a couple hundred, and we're all having a party, you just think, 'We can throw in 'Matchbox,' or we'll throw in an odd number that we'd only do at sound checks or something. So they're good fun for that reason.”

McCartney’s interest in low-key shows could go hand-in-hand with his attitude to his success. “The great thing about the fact that you've been so successful for so long comes the not-so-great thing, which is that at some point, you're just gonna get big-headed,” he admitted. “And you are just gonna think, 'I am pretty hot.' And I think you've got to watch out for that. You gotta hope that you're spotting that, as you're doing it.”

He also touched on retirement, comparing himself to sports stars who end their careers only because of factors beyond their control, such as health issues. “I don't think any of them want to retire particularly,” he said. “And I was talking to – name-dropping, clunk – Willie Nelson, and I was talking about this whole retiring thing, because he's older than I am, even. And he says, 'Retire from what?' And I think that just says it. Retire from what?”

Paul during the recording of #EgyptStation @AbbeyRoad, November 2017 pic.twitter.com/RWEtRQu5qf

— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) 25 de junio de 2018

A Little More Info on the ‘Egypt Station’ Super Deluxe Box Set?

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A Little More Info on the ‘Egypt Station’ Super Deluxe Box Set?
by beatlesblogger
Posted on June 24, 2018

There’s been some further bits of information trickling out about what might be in Paul McCartney’s mystery super deluxe box set of the forthcoming Egypt Station album.

The usually reliable Daily Beatle blog says that it is due for release in October, will contain 26 tracks (ten more than the 16 tracks announced so far), and will come with “various ephemera” included.

We don’t know if the image below is real or mocked up by a fan, but it kind of looks official and shows what could be some of the mystery super deluxe contents. It comes from the Macca-News blog Facebook page:



Now, we don’t know where the Macca-News blog sourced this. All they say is a cryptic “Well, well, well, look at this…”, but it appears to be an additional vinyl LP, housed in a sleeve with the same artwork McCartney’s official US store uses to link through to a super deluxe edition sign-up page. When you click through on that page you can sign up to be notified about the box set and when it will become available.

It’s also an image that formed part of the social media teaser campaign in the lead-up to the new album’s official announcement. The Egypt Station wording was intentionally washed out at the time to add to the mystique:



In the image we can also see four pin buttons, plus four postcards – also with images that were part of the extensive social media lead-up campaign. Could these be the “ephemera” that The Daily Beatle refers to?









As we say, its all speculation and could be a wild goose chase…..If you’d like to chip in your two cents worth, or you have any other clues, please get in touch!






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Egypt Station - the full range
Posted by Roger Stormo
Friday, June 22, 2018 

Egypt Station from Paul McCartney is to be released on 7. September. And then some.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you will have been informed that the word is out: Paul McCartney's new album is called "Egypt Station", and will be out on 7 September on Capitol Records, the company he signed a worldwide deal with in 2016. The two tracks that were released as downloads, streams and YouTube videos on June 20th, the rocking "Come On To Me" and the ballad "I Don't Know" will be released as a vinyl 45 rpm single late this summer. We have been told that these two tracks will be tracks 2 and 3 on the upcoming album, following the instrumental track, "Station 1".
So far, a number of variations of the albums have been announced, but there are more to come, and this will probably be the McCartney album available in more editions than any other album of his.
Capitol Records have never shied away from marketing.
Egypt Station has been recorded in studios in Los Angeles, London and Paul's own studio "The Mill" in Sussex, and is produced by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Beck and Foo Fighters), except for one song, "Fuh You", produced by Ryan Tedder. Tedder actually produced three songs for Paul, but "Fuh You" is the only one of those who made the album. The instrumentals "Station 1" and "Station 2" bookend the album. Other songs mentioned in the press release: an acoustic "Happy With You", a slogan anthem "People Want Peace", and a seven minute long suite along the lines of "A Day In The Life," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Back Seat of My Car," or "Band On The Run," called "Despite Repeated Warnings". More song titles have not been revealed.

In a new interview, McCartney said that playing in the tiny Philharmonic pub in Liverpool gave him the urge to play more of these kind of concerts in July, after which he will move on to bigger productions, so it's likely that means another stage of his tour. Be on the lookout for those pub concerts!

The "Target" edition containing two extra tracks.

On Paul McCartney's YouTube-channel are lyric videos for the two songs that were released as a single.

Okay, so we promised a breakdown of the full array of editions of the album, here goes:

• An album with 16 tracks as download
• 140 gram black double vinyl, single jacket with 16 tracks (14 songs + 2 interludes)
• Same on coloured double vinyl 
• Same from Barnes & Noble on coloured double vinyl, likely a unique colour to this store
• From Spotify and other stream providers 
• 180 gram black deluxe double vinyl unique tri-gatefold packaging with 16 tracks
• Same, on coloured double vinyl
• CD with 16 tracks
• CD with 18 tracks, but only from physical stores
• Target edition with two extra tracks
• Luxury boxed set with 26 tracks and various ephemera (Coming in October)
• And when that one sells out, expect a re-release without the ephemera

Oh, and we guess there's going to be high resolution files from select download providers and probably shm-cds in Japan. Actually, when it comes to vinyl, we have previously found that the 140 gram British pressings from the sixties of Beatles albums surpass the deluxe 180 gram albums of late, in fidelity and resistance of crackling.

There will be both 140 and 180 gram editions on vinyl, and colour variations of both.

Furthermore, what with all these releases and "White album" from The Beatles in November, we are not expecting to see the archive editions of "Wings Wild Life" and "Red Rose Speedway" this side of Christmas. But then of course, we could be wrong, and hope we are.