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Paul McCartney: McCartney III

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Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2020.12.18
Time:
 45:08
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Paul McCartney
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.paulmccartney.com
Appears with: The Beatles
Purchase date: 2021
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Long Tailed Winter Bird (P.McCartney) - 5:16
[2] Find My Way (P.McCartney) - 3:54
[3] Pretty Boys (P.McCartney) - 3:00
[4] Women And Wives (P.McCartney) - 2:52
[5] Lavatory Lil (P.McCartney) - 2:22
[6] Deep Deep Feeling (P.McCartney) - 8:25
[7] Slidin' (P.McCartney) - 3:23
[8] The Kiss Of Venus (P.McCartney) - 3:06
[9] Seize The Day (P.McCartney) - 3:20
[10] Deep Down (P.McCartney) - 5:52
[11] Winter Bird / When Winter Comes (P.McCartney) - 3:12

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Paul Mccartney - Vocals, Electric And Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitar, Double Bass, Acoustic Piano, Harpsichord, Mellotron, Harmonium, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizers, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Drums, Percussion, Recorder, Producer
Rusty Anderson - Electric Guitar on [7]
Abe Laboriel Jr. - Drums on [7]

Steve Orchard - Engineer
Greg Kurstin - Co-Producer on [7]
Keith Smith - Assistant Engineer At Hogg Hill Mill
Alex Pasco - Engineer on [7]
Bob Kraushaar - Engineer on [11]
Randy Merrill - Mastering At Sterling Sound
George Martin - Co-Producer on [11]
Ed Ruscha - Cover Art & Typography
Mary Mccartney - Cover Portrait, Photography
Sonny Mccartney - Photography
Nick Steinhardt - Art Direction & Design
Brian Clarke - Stained Glass

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Recorded in 2020 at the Studio Hogg Hill Mill, Sussex, England



Paul McCartney faced the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 like he faced so many other unexpected challenges in his life: he set out to make music on his own. The title of McCartney III positions it as a direct sequel to 1970's McCartney and 1980's McCartney II, albums he made in the wake of the respective dissolutions of the Beatles and Wings, a sentiment that rings true in some ways but not in others. Certainly, the one-man-band approach unites all three albums, as does their arrival at the dawn of a new decade, yet McCartney III doesn't contain a clear undercurrent of Paul processing change in the wake of loss. He doesn't spend the record trying to "Find My Way," as he puts it on the album's second song, but rather simply existing, drawing evident pleasure from the process of writing and recording new music. This also means McCartney III doesn't quite have the shock of the new the way that the homespun McCartney and synth-laden McCartney II do; he's not attempting new forms or ideas, instead returning to themes that have served him well over the years, whether they're plucked acoustic ditties, plaintive piano ballads, or stomping rockers. Execution makes a big difference, though. Where 2018's Egypt Station was designed with the charts specifically in mind -- Paul went so far as to hire producers Greg Kurstin and Ryan Tedder for the record, hoping they'd give him a modern sheen -- McCartney III is constructed at a modest scale, the arrangements so uncluttered that it's easy to hear the years on McCartney's voice. Maybe he can't hit the high notes he way he used to, maybe he sounds a bit weathered, but the change in his singing has a profoundly humanizing effect, especially when heard in conjunction with his distinctive drumming and fuzzed-out guitars. Within these contours, it's possible to trace the distance between the three McCartney albums. Despite these signs of age, McCartney III isn't an album about mortality, it's about finding sustenance in rough times. McCartney nods to sadness and loneliness on "Deep Deep Feeling" and conjures a fleeting sense of wistfulness on "Pretty Boys," then balances these moments of sadness with the sweet "The Kiss of Venus," the sugar-coated rallying call "Seize the Day," and the vulgar jabs of "Lavatory Lil." Individually, these moments may not seem particularly eccentric, yet when they're collected as an album, they add up to a charmingly off-kilter record, an album that benefits from its modest origins and McCartney's willingness to not polish too many of his rough edges.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



McCartney III is the 18th solo album by English musician Paul McCartney, released on 18 December 2020 by Capitol Records. It serves as a continuation to his solo albums McCartney (1970) and McCartney II (1980). Like those albums, McCartney III features McCartney on all instruments. It became McCartney's first UK number-one solo album since Flowers in the Dirt in 1989 and debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.

McCartney III was recorded in early 2020 at McCartney's studio in Sussex, England while in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. McCartney began by recording the instrument on which he wrote the song, then adding further layers. He said: "It was a lot of fun. It was about making music for yourself rather than making music that has to do a job. So, I just did stuff I fancied doing. I had no idea this would end up as an album." Like previous McCartney albums, McCartney performed all the instruments himself. He had also performed most of the instruments on his 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (described at the time by journalist David Hajdu as being "essentially McCartney III") and on his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. McCartney also played all the instruments on the Fireman albums Rushes (1998) and Electric Arguments (2008). The album's cover art and typography was designed by artist Ed Ruscha, an acquaintance of the McCartney family.

The domain name mccartneyiii.com was registered on 28 August 2020 by CSC Corporate Domains, the company that previously registered paulmccartney.com and flaming-pie.com (for the reissue of Flaming Pie, McCartney's 1997 studio album). Its landing page originally appeared with a 303 error notice, instead of the usual 404 error notice. On 16 October, teasers for the album started appearing on the streaming service Spotify with animations over the artwork for McCartney and McCartney II showing a dice with three pips facing upwards. The following week, McCartney's Twitter account started posting photos at 33 minutes past the hour with a recurring motif of three. On 21 October, McCartney's social media channels officially announced the forthcoming release of the album on 11 December. On 19 November, it was announced that due to unforeseeable production delays, the album release date had to be moved back one week to 18 December.

Starting from 4 December 2020, McCartney sent via his Facebook page the first post of a series of 12 daily posts unveiling the titles of each of the 11 new tracks from his new album through murals painted in 12 different cities all over the world. Each mural is showing the title of a new track, an excerpt from its music score and its author (Paul McCartney) along with the album title and its release date. McCartney also asked all musicians to post their video covers of his 11 new songs through his special website #12DaysOfPaul. During his appearance on The Howard Stern Show on 15 December 2020, McCartney revealed that American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift originally decided to postpone the release of her album Evermore by one week to respect the original 11 December release date of his album. Upon learning this, McCartney decided to release his album on 18 December instead so that Swift could move forward with the rollout of Evermore as initially planned.

On 17 December, a day before the album release, two live appearances were revealed for that day: one on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and a YouTube Released special featuring Chris Rock, alongside the release date for the lead single "Find My Way", which was released at the same time as the album.

McCartney III was released on 18 December 2020 on CD, vinyl, cassette and digital formats. The vinyl editions include a variety of colours: standard black, Third Man Records exclusive yellow-with-black-dots limited to 333 copies, Third Man Records exclusive red limited to 3,000 copies, #SpotifyFansFirst 130g Coke-bottle clear vinyl limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, 130g yellow limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, 130g violet limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, Newbury Comics exclusive pink limited to 1,500 copies, Target exclusive green, uDiscover exclusive orange, selected retailers exclusive blue, other record stores exclusive white.

McCartney III performed strongly across a number of international charts. The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on 25 December 2020, marking his first number-one solo album in his home country in 31 years (since 1989's Flowers in the Dirt). The album reached the top spot by selling 33,079 album-equivalent units. The album also reached the top 10 of many other European markets. In the US, the album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 107,000 equivalent album units – of which 104,000 were album sales – behind Taylor Swift's Evermore. The placement earned McCartney the feat of being the first artist to have a new album in the top two chart positions in each of the last six decades. McCartney III was also the top-selling album in its debut week in the US, outselling Swift's Evermore and Eminem's Music to Be Murdered By – Side B in pure sales (not including equivalent album units). The album also recorded the third largest US vinyl sales week since Nielsen SoundScan tracking era began in 1991.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, McCartney III has an average score of 81, based on 23 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.6 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.

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