Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full [Bonus CD]

Allusion to the digital world though it may be, there's a sweet, elegiac undercurrent to the title of Paul Mccartney's Memory Almost Full, an acknowledgement that it was written and recorded when Mccartney was 64, the age he mythologized on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released almost exactly 40 years before Memory. Certainly, Mccartney has mortality on the mind, but this isn't an entirely unusual occurrence for him in this third act of his solo career. Ever since his wife Linda's death from cancer in 1998, he's been dancing around the subject, peppering Flaming Pie with longing looks back, grieving by throwing himself into the past on the covers album Run Devil Run, slowly coming to terms with his status as the old guard on the carefully ruminative Chaos And Creation In The Backyard. Read More