Taylor Swift Album 7 Clue: Paul McCartney
✅ Paul McCartney left old record label right before his album “Memories Almost Full”
✅ “MAM’s” first single in the US was released in April 2007
✅ “Memory Almost Full” is Paul McCartney’s first digital album
✅ The first music video premiered on YouTube (“Dance Tonight”)
✅ Paul McCartney dyed his hair maroon
✅ Paul McCartney compares music to photo albums
✅ Paul McCartney believes that being open in his song writing is part of his evolution
✅ Paul McCartney views his future as the light at the end of a tunnel
✅ Paul McCartney’s “MAM” bonus track includes “Paul talks about the music of Memory Almost Full” which is 4 seconds and 26 minutes
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Extended details —
Paul McCartney left his previous record label EMI/Capitol Records to sign with Starbucks' Hear Music label. The first contract ended only a few months prior to his 2007 album coming out.
The first single in the States was, "Ever Present Past", was released on the radio on 20 April. The music video for "Dance Tonight" premiered on 5-23-07 on YouTube and this record was his first digital album.
The songs:
All songs written by Paul McCartney.
1. "Dance Tonight" – 2:54
2. "Ever Present Past" – 2:57
3. "See Your Sunshine" – 3:20
4. "Only Mama Knows" – 4:17
5. "You Tell Me" – 3:15
6. "Mr Bellamy" – 3:39
7. "Gratitude" – 3:19
8. "Vintage Clothes" – 2:22
9. "That Was Me" – 2:38
10. "Feet in the Clouds" – 3:24
11. "House of Wax" – 4:59
12. "The End of the End" – 2:57
13. "Nod Your Head" – 1:58
The Deluxe songs:
14. "Why so Blue" 3:11
15. "Dance Tonight" (acoustic) 2:47
16. "In Private" 2:08
17. "222" 3:38
18. "Paul talks about the music of Memory Almost Full" 26:04
Article from The Guardian:
"Today, he is more restrained. His hair is dyed a respectable brown, not the shocking maroon-black of yesteryear"
"It was only when the album was coming together that he recognised there was a leitmotif. "It is like looking back through a photo album, but there's more, because when I'm looking at the snapshots, I'm saying, 'Did that really happen?'"
"At times, he appears to argue with himself about how autobiographical the songs are. Take Mr Bellamy, which is about a man in a desperate situation - refusing to come down from the roof of his house because he's happier up there with "nobody here to spoil the view, interfere with my plans ... I like it up here without you" - newspapers have suggested this is about his state of mind.'"
""The common denominator is me. Even if I try and write, 'Desmond and Molly had a barrow in the market place', inevitably I come through the song.""
"If he's so worried about media distortion, why not keep his thoughts to himself? "Why? I don't see why I should." He likes saying what he thinks - even if that means he's stuck with it for ever. Talk, discovery, self-awareness, he says, it's all part of one's personal evolution. "At least, I am evolving, thank God. Peter Ustinov once said he enjoyed doing interviews because it let him know what he was thinking. It's like a therapy session.""
""I just have the fondest memories. It's a huge part of my life, the Beatles. It was what happened to me that made me different. When you look back on it, it's a very warm, rich experience. It was not all roses, but that's the funny thing about time - it becomes all roses.""
"But, you know ... there is a tunnel and there is a light and I will get there, and meantime I really enjoy my work and my family."
"McCartney websites go crazy as it emerges that Memory Almost Full is an anagram of For My Soulmate LLM - the initials of Linda Louise McCartney. I call McCartney to ask him if it was intentional. "Some things are best left a mystery," he says."
