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“McCartney I II III” Box Set announced
Jun 17, 2022
“Maybe I’m Amazed” promotional video broadcast
Apr 19, 1970
The “McCartney” press kit is sent to UK press
Apr 09, 1970
Designing the packaging for “McCartney”
March 1970 ?
Paul and Linda McCartney on holiday in Antigua
Mid-December 1969
Paul and Linda McCartney on holiday in Provence and Corfu
May 15 - June 17, 1969
Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman on holiday in Portugal
December 11 - End of December, 1968
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From paulmccartney.com:
Released in 1970, a month before The Beatles’ swansong Let It Be, McCartney was Paul’s first solo album. Notable for the fact that he performed all instruments and vocals himself, aside from some backing vocals performed by Linda, it’s an album rich in experimentation, and the original home of ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’. “The McCartney album was good fun,” Paul remembers, “because I got a machine from EMI, only a four-track, and I just had it in my living room where I lived in London at the time. I’d just go in for the day like Monsieur Magritte. Go in and do a little bit of stuff and make something up, and knock off in the evenings. It was very interesting to do and it had a certain kind of rawness, because I was breaking loose after The Beatles, we all got a feeling of that, I think. During the Beatles period I’d said to John, ‘I think I should do an album called Paul McCartney Goes Too Far”. He said, ‘That’s a great idea man, you should do it.’ Of course, I never really did. It was just, Well, I’ll do it one day.” In 2011, the album was remastered and reissued as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, with a bonus disc of outtakes, demos and live versions, as well as a DVD of documentaries and live performances.
Last updated on March 26, 2022
Special editions
By Paul McCartney • Official album
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney - Archive Collection
By Paul McCartney • Official album
Related bootlegs
McCartney - Alternate Archive Collection
By Paul McCartney • Unofficial album
McCartney - Ultimate Archive Collection
By Paul McCartney • Unofficial album
Related songs
Unreleased song
Unreleased song
Officially appears on McCartney - Archive Collection
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Unreleased song
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney - Archive Collection
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on McCartney - Archive Collection
Related films
1970 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Charlie Jenkins
Maybe I'm Amazed ("Wings Over America" version)
1977 • For Wings
2001 • For Paul McCartney
Maybe I’m Amazed ("Back In The US" version)
2002 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Mark Haefeli
Every Night (Live at Concert for the People of Kampuchea)
2011 • For Wings • Directed by Keith McMillan
Hot As Sun (Live at Concert for the People of Kampuchea)
2011 • For Wings • Directed by Keith McMillan
2011 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Ali Assaf
Related artists
Related sessions
Late December 1969 to Jan 03, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
"McCartney" sessions at Morgan Studios
Feb 12-20, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Feb 18, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Mixing "The Lovely Linda", "Momma Miss America", "Singalong Junk"
Feb 21, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
"McCartney" sessions at EMI Studios, Abbey Road
February 21 to March 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Recording "Maybe I'm Amazed", mixing "That Would Be Something", "Valentine Day"
Feb 22, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Feb 23, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Mixing "Hot As Sun", "Every Night"
Feb 24, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Feb 25, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Mar 16, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Mastering of the "McCartney" album
Mar 21, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Tape copies of the "McCartney" album
Mar 23, 1970 • Songs recorded during this session appear on McCartney
Related interviews
Who does Paul McCartney think he is?
May 02, 1970 • From Melody Maker
Apr 30, 1970 • From RollingStone
Paul & Linda McCartney send a telegram to Disc & Music Echo
Apr 25, 1970 • From Disc And Music Echo
Interview for the Evening Standard
Tuesday, April 21-22, 1970 • From Evening Standard
Apr 09, 1970 • From Apple Records
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"If I had given my body and my mind, my heart and my soul and my intellect, my wife and my children, my reasonings, my stumblings and my understanding, my mistakes and my triumphs, my melodies and my harmonies, my prose, my poetry, my doggerel, my truths, my explanations, my excuses, my love and devotion, my words, my music, my light and my shadows and my sunshine and my rain, my life on the line, my head on the block, my courage, my terrors, my fears, my fulness, my fullness, my strivings, my all… If I had given all this and packaged it and bound it in a slim parcel, called it an album bearing my own bold name in full color, addressed it, stamped it and mailed it to a pretty girl in East Central London, I should be very brought down to read a week later a headline 'What A Bitter Blow.'" --kind of feel crying over this statement. The more I listen to this album the deeper I'm in love with it. It'll always have a special, special place in my heart.
Thanks @hwpoyan, where does this quote come from pls? I don't think I've ever read it! Thanks for sharing.
Sorry for late reply! I actually read this at your website! here: https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/interview/paul-mccartney-telegram-in-disc-music-echo/.
The funny thing is, I got emotional for a couple of days without realizing that it was supposed to be written by Derek Taylor, not Paul, until today, so also sorry for being misleading! Still find it very emotive, though.