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Paul McCartney Wants to Finish a New Solo Album Next Year

Paul McCartney said he hopes to complete his next solo album in 2025 in a short Q&A with fans on his website.

In a short Q&A with fans on his website, McCartney confirmed that he’s “been working on a lot of songs,” but had to put the album “to the side” because of his Got Back Tour (which launched in 2022 and finally wrapped this month with a special London show featuring Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood). While McCartney hasn’t released any new solo music recently, this year did see him shepherd the arrival of the last Beatles song, “Now and Then.” The track is based on a piano demo John Lennon recorded in 1977, and which Yoko Ono gave to the surviving members of the band in 1994. At the time, George Harrison laid down some guitar parts for possible inclusion on the Beatles Anthology box sets, but the quality of the original demo was so poor, the group decided to abandon the song.

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