The Beatles Icon Announces Details of New Album for 2012
It has been revealed that Paul McCartney is set to release a new album in 2012 and reports also indicate that both Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton will have guest appearances. It will be his first release since 2007’s Memory Almost Full appeared in shops around the world.
NME says that the album will feature two new recordings and various covers of songs McCartney enjoyed as a child.
The news emerges as McCartney heads to the stage this month with shows at the Manchester Evening News Arena and Liverpool’s Echo Arena.
Sir Paul McCartney is, of course, a music legend, having played bass guitar with The Beatles alongside band members Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison during the 1960s and following that up with solo work and work with Wings throughout the 1970s. His work has been enormously influential, with The Beatles still regarded as one of the best bands of all time and spawning various movies and even a West End musical called Backbeat. As a solo artist he has released albums such as McCartney in 1970, McCartney II in 1980 and Give My Regards to Broad Street in 1984 in addition to more recent additions like Driving Rain in 2001, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard in 2005 and Memory Almost Full in 2007.
The tracklist for the album has yet to be announced, though Paulmccartney.com has been streaming the song My Valentine and further news will likely emerge as it nears its release date.
