paul mccartney Archive
30 Jun 2023
Take 5: Paul McCartney’s ‘Red Rose Speedway’
After dominating the 1960s pop music landscape with the Beatles, Paul McCartney arguably reached his solo career’s creative peak with the release of 1973’s Band on the Run, sustaining that […]
13 Mar 2022
March Through Time: Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney is one of the world’s most popular songwriters and performers. He’s also one of the wealthiest, and with good reason. His solo work continues to this day, but […]
09 Nov 2021
Album Review: Ram On – The 50th Anniversary Tribute to Paul and Linda McCartney’s ‘Ram’
If you read Musoscribe with anything approaching regularity (and sincere thanks if you do), the name Fernando Perdomo will be a familiar one. An in-demand multifarious session player, he also […]
16 Jun 2020
Guitarist Laurence Juber Connects the Dots Between Classical, Folk and the Beatles
Laurence Juber was already an accomplished and in-demand session musician before he got the call to join Paul McCartney’s band, Wings. And although he was a member of the group […]
21 Aug 2019
Spin it On: Denny Laine on Wings’ ‘Back to the Egg’ at 40 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … I have a bootleg recording which is probably a rough mix of a working version of Back to the Egg, and the version of “Getting […]
20 Aug 2019
Spin it On: Denny Laine on Wings’ ‘Back to the Egg’ at 40 (Part One)
In the very early 1970s, not long after the Beatles had broken up, Paul McCartney decided he wanted to have a band again. With wife Linda, he recruited Denny Laine, […]
02 May 2019
Those Were the Days: Mary Hopkin’s ‘Post Card’ at 50
Mary Hopkin was a mere 18 years old when she was signed to the Beatles’ fledgling record label in 1968. That experience wasn’t her first as a recording artist; she […]
15 May 2015
Hundred Word Reviews for May 2015, Part 10
Over the last nine business days, I’ve surveyed 45 albums of new, reissued, and/or archival music from a wide array of artists in jazz, prog, soul, rock and other genres. […]
24 Dec 2013
Best of 2013: DVDs
Yesterday I did a quick round-up of notable album reissues from 2013. Today it’s DVDs. Click on the titles for a full review (except as noted). Brian Wilson, Songwriter 1969-1982 […]
22 Nov 2013
DVD Review: Going Underground
Sir Paul McCartney had no role in the making of Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter Culture. But to the extent he even knows about it, […]
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