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Confirmed McCartney track list

September 13, 2013, 7:07 am
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PaulMcCartney.com just confirmed the 12 tracks on the regular edition of Paul's new CD album "New", including producer credits for each track.

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    Title
    Time
    Producer/Bonus
    1
    Save Us
    2:39
    Paul Epworth
    2
    Alligator
    3:27
    Mark Ronson
    3
    On My Way To Work
    3:43
    Giles Martin
    4
    Queenie Eye
    3:48
    Paul Epworth
    5
    Early Days
    4:07
    Ethan Johns
    6
    New
    2:56
    Mark Ronson
    7
    Appreciate
    4:28
    Giles Martin
    8
    Everybody Out There
    3:21
    Giles Martin
    9
    Hosanna
    3:29
    Ethan Johns
    10
    I Can Bet
    3:21
    Giles Martin
    11
    Looking At Her
    3:05
    Giles Martin
    12
    Road
    4:36
    Giles Martin
    13
    Scared
    2:59
    UK/USA/Fr/Japan
    14
    Secret Life of a Party Girl
    6:15
    UK/USA/Japan
    15
    Turned Out
    France/Japan
    16
    Get Me Out Of Here
    France/Japan

Executive Producer: Giles Martin
Mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent

Total Running Time for the regular CD (Tracks 1-12) is 46:11

The final four tracks are bonus tracks for deluxe editions of the CD in various countries. These are still unconfirmed by Paul McCartney's official site.
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Beatles calendars for 2014

September 18, 2013, 2:50 am
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As usual this time of the year, news about the upcoming Beatles calendars for next year emerge. Most will be available for purchase, some in the near future. As usual, there's a variety to choose from. The above depicted one is from Danilo, and is branded as an "official" calendar. Here's the back, with all the monthly pictures in miniature:


This calendar is also available with a different front page, depicting an album sleeve:


Mead Products in Ohio also produces some Beatles calendars this year, here's a look:

A 16-month calendar, front

January 2014

The back, with monthly miniatures
Mead Products also has a novelty round calendar, shaped like an LP. It commemorates the Beatles First US Visit.

The calendar is housed in a "sleeve"

The back of the sleeve shows all pages

And here's what it looks like on the wall
The Dream company also has a Beatles 2014 calendar on offer:

Front

Back, with miniatures
As usual, of all the individual Beatles, only John Lennon gets his own official 2014 calendar, by Pyramid:

Front

Back, with miniatures

For a look at all the Beatles calendars on offer, check out the UK Astore or the US Astore.
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#whatsnewpaul?

September 19, 2013, 12:34 am
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Free Lennon program from BBC

September 20, 2013, 1:58 am
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BBC Radio 4: An in-depth portrait of John Lennon, told through the edited audio of Jann Wenner's seminal 1970 New York interview with Lennon for Rolling Stone magazine. 45 minutes. Originally broadcast July 6th, 2007.


It’s 1970 and John Lennon is about to release his first solo album. He’s not long emerged from months of Primal Therapy with its creator, Arthur Janov and he’s about to give his first major interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

In the interview, he’ll talk openly about his solo career, the break-up of the world’s most famous band, his marriage and a lot more besides.

Wenner and Yoko Ono also look back on the event, but the focus is very much on Lennon, who seems energised by what he sees as his freedom from the Beatles. It’s John Lennon at his most honest - and on occasion, his most abrasive. There is frequent use of strong language.

The program is available for listening as well as for downloading from BBC Radio 4.

The full 3.5 hours of interview is also available as a FREE iTunes podcast at the iTunes music store, courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine.
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More Macca Mojo

September 20, 2013, 5:26 am
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On sale from Tuesday, September 24, the latest issue of MOJO magazine goes large on Paul McCartney: his new album, New and the irksome fog of myth that surrounds the Beatles. In an exclusive interview, briefly excerpted here, Paul explains how the new song "On The Way To Work" alludes to his between-Hamburg-stints stopgap as a driver’s mate for "Speedy Prompt Deliveries", and that he had more complaints about the "Nowhere Boy" film than previously reported.
The free CD, "Songs In The Key Of Paul", presents power pop in the benign shadow of Macca; Flamin’ Groovies, Robyn Hitchcock, Cotton Mather, Yo La Tengo, Redd Kross and Squeeze pitch in.
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Missed opportunity

September 20, 2013, 8:04 am
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Upon returning from the UK with the profits from his British tour, singer Tommy Roe also brought with him a promo pack for the Please Please Me album by the Beatles, including the album itself.
During coffee on April 9th, 1963 with ABC-Paramount's president Samuel Clarke, national sales manager Larry Newton and the company's A&R man Don Costa, the LP was put to a test spin on the turntable, starting with that killer opening "I Saw Her Standing There".



After a few minutes and less than complimentary looks passing between the execs, Sam suddenly snatched up the record and frisbeed it into the trash bin saying, "Gentlemen, that was crap!"

Sourced from Martin Creasy's book "Beatlemania! The real story of The Beatles UK tours 1963-1965". Now available for Kindle.
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Free tickets to McCartney's BBC performance

September 21, 2013, 9:34 am
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BBC Radio's "6 Music Live at Maida Vale" is returning with another amazing week of live music featuring the very best from 6 Music's diverse musical styles. Paul McCartney is to be the star attraction at next month’s 6 Music Live at Maida Vale.
McCartney will take to the Maida Vale stage on Wednesday October 16, returning to the same BBC studios he played in with John, George and Ringo in the 60s.
Join Sir Paul McCartney live at Maida Vale Studios on Wednesday 16 October!
The ticket giveaway is open from now until Friday 27 September at 7pm. Tickets are free and will be allocated at random. You can apply for a maximum of one pair of tickets and applicants must be 18 years of age or over. And UK residents, we may add, having unsuccessfully tried to fill in the form.

Apply here
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New songs debut live

September 22, 2013, 10:15 am
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Paul McCartney headlined the iHeartRADIO festival in Las Vegas. During the concert, three songs from his upcoming album "New" was performed. Beside the title track, "Save Us" and "Everybody Out There", yet unheard in their studio versions, thrilled the fans.

His setlist was:

Magical Mystery Tour
Save Us
Let Me Roll It
Everybody Out There
Another Day
New
Lady Madonna
Live and Let Die


McCartney was backed by his regular band, Abe's drums had a new logo


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Extracts from Lewisohn

September 23, 2013, 2:03 am
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Final "New" album cover

September 23, 2013, 9:51 am
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Paul McCartney just tweeted what's supposedly the final version of the album cover.
Along with updated info on the songs, some of which has been previously published on this very blog.

1. Save Us (produced by Paul Epworth)
2. Alligator (produced by Mark Ronson)
3. On My Way To Work (produced by Giles Martin)
4. Queenie Eye (produced by Paul Epworth)
5. Early Days (produced by Ethan Johns with additional production by Giles Martin)
6. New (produced by Mark Ronson with additional production by Giles Martin)
7. Appreciate (produced by Giles Martin)
8. Everybody Out There (produced by Giles Martin)
9. Hosanna (produced by Ethan Johns)
10. I Can Bet (produced by Giles Martin)
11. Looking At Her (produced by Giles Martin)
12. Road (produced by Paul Epworth)

The Deluxe edition includes these bonus tracks:

13. Turned Out (produced by Ethan Johns with additional production by Giles Martin)
14. Get Me Out Of Here (produced by Giles Martin)

Album info:

Executive Producers: Paul McCartney and Giles Martin
Mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent
Deluxe edition total Running Time: 52:15

The album was recorded at Henson Recording Studios, Los Angeles; Avatar Studios, New York; Abbey Road Studios, London; Air Studios, London; Wolf Tone Studios, London and Hog Hill Mill, East Sussex.

Artwork information:
NEW album cover inspired by Dan Flavin with special thanks to Stephen Flavin
Logo and cover concept: Rebecca and Mike
Consultancy and design: YES
Cover Image: Ben Ib

As we have posted earlier, there are probably a couple more bonus tracks lined up for exclusive DeLuxe editions for some store chains and foreign markets.

The title track "New" has been out on YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes and other outlets for a while, and also made it's live debut in Paul's concert at the iHeart Radio Festival in Las Vegas the past week-end. During that concert, McCartney also previewed two more songs from the album, the opening track "Save Us" along with track no 8, "Everybody Out There".

Bonus tracks not mentioned in this press statement: "Secret Life of a Party Girl" and "Scared". The track "Scared" was revealed to be a "hidden track" in the latest edition of the MOJO magazine, and thus is not listed. "Secret Life of a Party Girl" even has a timing (6:15) and was one of the tracks Mark Ronson produced. It has been rumoured as one of the bonus tracks on the "regular" DeLuxe edition, but now that the official track list is out, is nowhere to be found. It may appear again, perhaps on a Japanese ultra-DeLuxe edition of the album, who knows?

Last week, we revealed a "Best Buy" variation on the "New" cover in this blog post.That was a 12 track edition, but with bonus items like a postcard pack and a promotional badge included.

Paul McCartney is booked to appear on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC TV-show from Los Angeles tonight, perhaps he will treat the audience to further tracks from the new album. The show is billed as "Paul McCartney, Patrick Dempsey – plus Sir Paul performs a special Hollywood Blvd concert".
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Paul McCartney's free Hollywood Concert

September 23, 2013, 11:53 pm
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After his expensive Las Vegas performance, Paul McCartney gave a free mini concert on Hollywood Boulevard for live transmission on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last night. The songs he played were:

Magical Mystery Tour
Save Us
Junior's Farm
Jet
New
Lady Madonna
Birthday
Another Day
Everybody Out There
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Band on the Run
Back in the USSR
Day Tripper
Let It Be
Hey Jude

Here's "New":



Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that this will be the DeLuxe album cover for "New" and the track list from Amazon UK still features "Secret Life of a Party Girl".

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On Air - On Vinyl

September 24, 2013, 8:04 am
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Looks like it's a triple album, folks!

It's £29.99 and the first 1000 copies of the vinyl ordered from the official Beatles store will come with a FREE 14 Track Promotional Album CD. Another reason for purchasing this on LP is that the accompanying 48-page booklet will also look much nicer in the 12" format. Just like the old "Magical Mystery Tour" booklet looked better in 12" (USA) than in 7" (UK), prompting EMI to release it as an album in the U.K. back in 1976.

In 1994, The Beatles’ Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim - hitting number one in the U.K. and number three in the U.S. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks.
A new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, will now be released on 11 November.

On Air’s 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles’ first BBC release, include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band’s members and their BBC radio hosts.

In the studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Beatles performed music for a variety of radio shows. On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 presents the sound of The Beatles seizing their moment to play for the nation. Thrilled to hear these exciting recordings again, Paul McCartney said, “There’s a lot of energy and spirit. We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes.”
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Halfway through Lewisohn

September 25, 2013, 12:15 am
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The Saturday-night dance in Port Sunlight, July 1962. Photo: Little, Brown Book Group.

It's not me that's half way through the new Beatles biography, it's some of the other reviewers. My review copy of Mark Lewisohn's "Tune In" is still in the mail. Here's David Hepworth's half way through review.

I'm in two minds about the book. The review copy will be the standard edition, made for mass consumption. I have plans to acquire the special edition, consisting of Lewisohn's original manuscript, before he was told to shorten it.
So I'll probably wait it out 'till November. Or else, I'd be wasting my time, and have to re-read stories again when the real deal is out.

Meanwhile, you'll find extracts and stories from the book all over the www. Like the exclusive Telegraph extracts I told you about in an earlier blog post. And yesterday, this photo popped up in the U.K. press:

Lennon and a bespectacled McCartney, Summer 1961. Did he just borrow John's glasses? Photo:
Little, Brown Book Group/PA Wire

Lewisohn is said to have bought this photo from a fan in Liverpool decades ago. It finally reaches a broader audience through his book, but as it has now been published in U.K. newspapers, it will already have been seen by many more people than the potential book buyers.

The first book in Mark Lewisohn's three volume set is the one I'm looking forward to the most. After 1962, the Beatles lived very hectic and very public lives. This will be the book of revelations.

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On Air: Best Buy edition

October 23, 2013, 7:14 am
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On Air: Best Buy edition with 5 "art cards". 
Here we go again. There's a "Best Buy" edition of On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2 that comes with "5 art cards featuring images from the BBC Sessions". I can't wait to see what Target and FYE have conjured up. Or can I?

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Queenie Eye Music Video

October 24, 2013, 12:31 am
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How many celebrities can you name? Use the Comments section. We thought we saw a glimpse of Sir Peter Blake in there...
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BBC Boxed set

October 24, 2013, 2:44 am
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The Boxed set holds both BBC releases. Photo © 2013 Apple Corps Ltd.

Here's a better look at the boxed set. It's really probably just an outer cardboard slipcase, just like one that held the "red" and "blue" albums in 2010. Like that one, this is likely to be available in very limited quantities. Amazon in Canada has it at the current price of CDN $ 41.99.

The red and blue box.  Photo © 2010 Apple Corps Ltd.
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Ringo's Octopus

October 24, 2013, 3:08 am
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Mal Evans story on stage

October 24, 2013, 4:13 am
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Copyright © BeatleMal.com

If you're in Ireland, or planning a trip there soon, you should catch this play. Mal Evans, the Beatles truest, bestest friend, lived with Paul McCartney as his housekeeper for around 4 months from Nov 1966 to March/April 67, around the time Sgt Pepper was being recorded and there is very good evidence to suggest Mal helped Paul considerably with the lyrics to the title song as well as 'Fixing a Hole'. Mal did all the cooking, housework and gardening, as well cleaning up after Martha, Paul's big, jolly old English sheepdog!

BEATLE MAL is touring IRELAND October-November 2013 after touring the UK, It's a lovely nostalgia trip about the man who on the best ride of the 1960's, very definitely had the front seat!
See BeatleMal.com for full tour itinerary.

Watch out for special shows in Dublin on the 7th November & Belfast on 8th November to mark that it is 50 years ago to the very day that the Fab 4 played those cities in 1963. Here's a clip from the play:



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"New" straight to the top!

October 25, 2013, 2:48 am
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DeLuxe edition with Target DVD

Paul McCartney's "New" album went straight to the top of Norway's album chart in it's first week. No. 2 was the new album from Pearl Jam, and third was "Back to Forever" by Lissie. The four top selling albums were all debutants. Miley Cyrus'"Bangerz" album dropped from the top spot to no. 22 here in Norway in it's second week.

In the USA, "New" was no. 3 on the Billboard top 200 album chart, with Cyrus at no. 2 and Pearl Jam at the top of the chart.

McCartney's chart success in Norway was not aided by my own purchase, because as a Beatles- and solo collector I had to go for the USA "Target" edition, or else my McCartney DVD collection would have been incomplete.

My discs arrived today, as depicted above. The DVD is in a sleeve of it own and it was glued to the front of a DeLuxe edition. Fortunately, this was the kind of plastic glue that was easily removed withought leaving residue and causing damage to the sleeves.

AUSTRALIA
In the Australian "Aria" album chart list, "New" debuts at a  disappointing 22nd place. Pearl Jam is the winner at the top here.

DENMARK
The native Burhan G is top of the pops in Denmark, with "New" as runner up. Pearl Jam places third.

SWEDEN
"New" is at no 9 in Sweden, Swedish artist Veronica Maggio keeps her top spot, and most of the top half of the Swedish album chart are Swedish artists and groups. Cyrus is at eight, just ahead of McCartney, and Pearl Jam is at no. 12.

GERMANY
is a big market, and German artists are in favour. "New" is in at no. 6, and Pearl Jam at 4, the no. 1 spot belongs to Helene Fischer. 

So far, the two countries where "New"are topping the album charts are Norway and Japan. Of course, Japan sales were boosted because they have shipped a lot of copies abroad, since hard core McCartney collectors all around the world had to order their copy of the album from Japan. The reason is that the Japan DeLuxe edition had one extra track, the experimental "Struggle", thus rendering all other countries' DeLuxe editions incomplete...
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Beatles at the Grammies

October 25, 2013, 3:48 am
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Photo: © Copyright Apple Corps Ltd

The notorious Roger Friedman attended the launch party for the new Photograph book by Ringo from Genesis Publications and had some big news to pass along.
Ringo Starr confirmed for Friedman that The Beatles will likely be celebrated twice, once during the Grammy® Awards, and then again the next night. The plan right now is for a special Beatles segment during the Grammies® on January 26th to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their arrival in America on February 7. 1964.

On January 27, the Monday night after the Grammies®, there will be a special Beatles show in Los Angeles at the Convention Center.
Right now it’s supposed to entail a lot of different acts playing Beatles songs. Ringo says that so far he and Paul McCartney have discussed only the “possibility” of their participation. “It’s not like we’re not going to do it,” he told Friedman. “But it might be cool to have all these other bands doing our stuff, and we’re watching.”
Read more about this story over at Showbiz 411.
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