The solo career of Paul McCartney will be celebrated in a new retrospective package, Pure McCartney, to be released in three formats on 10 June. It features material from his 1970 debut album right the way through to 2015 and will be available in 2CD, 4CD and 4LP sets, with the 4CD version featuring a massive 67 tracks.

"Me and my team came up with the idea of putting together a collection of my recordings with nothing else in mind other than having something fun to listen to,” says McCartney. “Maybe it's to be enjoyed on a long car journey or an evening at home or at a party with friends? So we got our heads together and came up with these diverse playlists from various periods of my long and winding career.”

The music in the collection features highlights and personal favourites from Paul's solo albums, his years with Wings and in his experimental dance incarnation with The Fireman.

"The word 'career' is a bit misleading,” adds McCartney, “because to me it has been more like a musical adventure than a proper job. It pleases me, and often amazes me, that I've been involved in the writing and recording of so many songs, each of them so different from the others."


Here's the track listing for the 4CD version of Pure McCartney:

Disc 1:
01 Maybe I'm Amazed
02 Heart Of The Country
03 Jet
04 Warm And Beautiful
05 Listen To What The Man Said
06 Dear Boy
07 Silly Love Songs
08 The Song We Were Singing
09 Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
10 Early Days
11 Big Barn Bed
12 Another Day
13 Flaming Pie
14 Jenny Wren
15 Too Many People
16 Let Me Roll It
17 New

Disc 2:
01 Live and Let Die
02 English Tea
03 Mull of Kintyre
04 Save Us
05 My Love
06 Bip Bop
07 Let 'Em In
08 Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
09 Calico Skies
10 Hi, Hi, Hi
11 Waterfalls
12 Band on the Run
13 Appreciate
14 Sing The Changes
15 Arrow Through Me
16 Every Night
17 Junior's Farm
18 Mrs Vandebilt

Disc 3:
01 Say Say Say [2015 Remix]
02 My Valentine
03 Pipes of Peace
04 The World Tonight
05 Souvenir
06 Dance Tonight
07 Ebony and Ivory
08 Fine Line
09 Here Today
10 Press
11 Wanderlust
12 Winedark Open Sea
13 Beautiful Night
14 Girlfriend
15 Queenie Eye
16 We All Stand Together

Disc 4:
01 Coming Up
02 Too Much Rain
03 Good Times Coming / Feel The Sun
04 Goodnight Tonight
05 Baby's Request
06 With a Little Luck
07 Little Willow
08 Only Mama Knows
09 Don't Let it Bring You Down
10 The Back Seat Of My Car
11 No More Lonely Nights
12 Great Day
13 Venus and Mars / Rock Show
14 Temporary Secretary
15 Hope For The Future
16 Junk

I'm as big a Beatles and McCartney fan as anyone. Play their/his music constantly. I've seen him many times. Usually up front. Spent untold thousands on his shows and put scalpers' kids through college. A quick look at this I'd say there are 12 great songs and another 5 or so good ones. That's out of about 65. And most of those I have already.

The truth is that it's hard to write a great song and Paul just doesn't have the motivation he used to. Even if he wrote Hey Jude today it would be just another great McCartney song.

Paul McCartney is releasing a new greatest hits cd? What a surprise because my mother likes Paul McCartney and so do I and recently my aunt gave my mom a Paul McCartney cd and my mother LOVED it and plus the cd had the song Say Say Say that I was looking for because it had Michael Jackson on it. I hope this new greatest hits cd by Paul McCartney will be worth buying because Paul McCartney is such a talented singer
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