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About
2020 was marked by a global health crisis due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This crisis put a halt to the daily routine of billions of people throughout the world, forcing people to stay confined at home… including Paul McCartney.
McCartney hadn’t planned to release an album in 2020, but being in lock-down in Sussex close to his Hog Hill Mill studio, he spent time fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating new ones. This effort would become “McCartney III“, a self-produced, solo effort, in the same spirit of in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II albums.
The marketing team at Capitol Records went over the top with this release, with numerous limited editions of the album – in colored vinyls, in CDs with colored variations of the dice theme, with some bonus tracks dispatched across releases, three different back covers, a track list different on CDs & vinyls… But in the end, it paid off, as McCartney succeeded at getting his first Number 1 album in the UK, since 1989’s “Flowers In The Dirt“.

Last updated on December 28, 2020
Special editions
McCartney III (333 Edition - LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Deluxe Digital Album)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Deluxe Edition Blue Cover CD)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Deluxe Edition Red Cover CD)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Deluxe Edition White Cover CD)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Deluxe Edition Yellow Cover CD)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Blue LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Newbury Comics - Pink LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Orange LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Red LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Third Man Records Version Red LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Violet LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Exclusive Yellow LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Green cover, CD)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Japanese edition - Limited release)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Smoky Tint Cassette)
By Paul McCartney • Cassette
By Paul McCartney • Official album
McCartney III (Target exclusive, Green LP)
By Paul McCartney • Official album
By Paul McCartney • Official album
Related singles
By Paul McCartney • EP
By Paul McCartney • EP
By Paul McCartney • EP
By Paul McCartney • EP
Related songs
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Officially appears on McCartney III
Officially appears on McCartney III
Officially appears on McCartney III
Officially appears on McCartney III

Unreleased song
Officially appears on McCartney III
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I made a google doc containing all the notes Paul had when he did his twitter track by track analysis. Might be useful to flesh out the info on each song.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PY54AN9hFkaonfJw70OxBx4BQTEbG3NC7cFzarghAaY/edit
Thanks @jesse - it helped me to create this page - https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/interview/mccartney-iii-twitter-listening-party/ !