2021

What happened for Paul in 2021

As the “McCartney III” album was released at the end of December 2020, its promotion continued in the first part of 2021, especially with the release of “McCartney III imagined“, a mix of covers and remixes of “McCartney III” by other artists.

2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the albums “Ram” and “Wild Life“. “Ram” was therefore reissued on vinyl, in May. It was announced in December that “Wild Life” would be reissued on vinyl in February 2022.

In July, the six-part documentary series created by Paul McCartney and Rick Rubin, named “McCartney 3,2,1“, premiered on the Hulu streaming platform in the US.

2021 was also pretty rich in terms of book publications:

• A new cooking book, co-created by Paul and his daughters Mary & Stella, was published in June.
• Also published in June, “Paul” is a photography book featuring images of Paul McCartney taken by photojournalist Harry Benson.
• In September, Paul’s brother, Mike, published a new photography book about Liverpool in the 60s and 70s. Paul McCartney and the Beatles are well represented in this book, with previously unpublished photographs.
• The sequel to Paul McCartney’s first picture book, “Hey Grandude!”, published in 2019, was published in September under the title “Grandude’s Green Submarine“.
• Released in November, “Paul McCartney – The Lyrics” was surely the most significant release. In this book, Paul browses us through 154 songs, from all stages of his career, and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

In terms of Beatles news, “The Beatles – Get Back” movie, announced in January 2019, morphed into a 6-hours documentary series and was released on the Disney+ streaming platform in November 2021. In October 2021, a 50th-anniversary box set of the “Let It Be” album was released, as well as a book “The Beatles – Get Back“.

(photo by Hector Dockrill – from Twitter)

Last updated on July 29, 2022