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PAUL McCARTNEY SAYS ‘FUTURE OF MUSIC IS IN DANGER’
MICHAEL GALLUCCI
Jan 10 2018
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Paul McCartney is supporting the U.K. Music Initiative, a new Parliamentary campaign that hopes to save music venues from closing.
According to NME, the “Agent of Change” principle is being targeted for U.K. law, and would force developers to consider the effect on pre-existing businesses before they construct any new buildings. Existing music venues would fall under this umbrella.
The campaign – introduced by senior Labour MP John Spellar as a new Planning Bill in the House of Commons – launches today, and McCartney has come out in full support of it. “Without the grassroots clubs, pubs and music venues my career could have been very different,” he said. “If we don’t support music at this level, then the future of music in general is in danger.”
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg have also backed the U.K. Music Initiative.
In other McCartney news, he's apparently working on the follow-up to 2013's New. He recently noted that he's "putting the finishing touches" on a new album, which he hopes to release sometime this year.
"I’d like that to be something I really love and then hopefully the fans will love it too," he said. "I would like to achieve making that a really great album. Fingers crossed! That’s not what it’s called, but fingers crossed! It could be … it could be the new album title."
McCartney has been busy since the release of New. He released a Top 5 single with Rihanna and Kanye West in 2015 called "FourFiveSeconds," and worked on some other tracks with West during that period.
www.express.co.uk
Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney warns: ‘Music’s future is in DANGER’
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has warned that music’s future is in danger, after backing a Parliamentary campaign to save UK music venues.
By GEORGE SIMPSON
PUBLISHED: Wed, Jan 10, 2018
The 75-year-old music icon has backed a newly proposed law to protest music venues from closure.
Labour MP John Spellar, who served as a minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has introduced a bill in the House of Commons on the matter.
According to Sky, alongside Sir Paul other musicians to back the proposed legislature include Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, Craig David, Ray Davies, Billy Bragg, Chrissie Hynde, Sandie Shaw and Feargal Sharkey.
In a statement, Sir Paul said: “Without the grassroots clubs, pubs and music venues my career could have been very different.”
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The Beatles star added: “If we don’t support music at this level, then the future of music in general is in danger.”
If the law is passed, developers will be forced to consider the impact of new schemes on businesses, like music venues, before taking planned action.
Last year Sir Paul revealed the special way he wrote The Beatles hit songs with John Lennon.
McCartney revealed: “There's a million ways to write, but the way I always used to write was with John and it would be across from each other, either in a hotel bedroom on the twin beds, with an acoustic guitar and we're just looking at each other.”
He added: “He'd make up something, I'd make up something and we'd just spin off each other.”
“The nice thing for me is seeing John there, him being right-handed, me being left-handed, it felt to me like I was looking in a mirror.
“Obviously, it was very successful. So that was a way I had learned to write and it was the way I liked to write and Elvis [Costello, his new collaborator] was very happy to work like that.
“So it was like a repeat of that process, and so he was John, basically, and I was Paul.”
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