*NEW* PAUL McCARTNEY FLAMING PIE ARCHIVE COLLECTION

The 2020 reissue of Flaming Pie will be the next slice of the GRAMMY-winning Paul McCartney Archive Collection.

Originally released May 5, 1997, Flaming Pie ended a four-year gap between McCartney studio albums and was shaped by the experience of recording The Beatles Anthology series.

“(The Beatles Anthology) reminded me of The Beatles' standards and the standards that we reached with the songs. So in a way it was a refresher course that set the framework for this album.” - Paul

Flaming Pie will be available in a 4LP/5CD/2DVD Collector’s Edition, strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies. The Collector's Edition includes the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studios, 32 bonus audio tracks including unheard home recordings and demos, alternative studio recordings, rough mixes, and much more.

Flaming Pie is also available on a seven-disc (5CD/2DVD) Deluxe Edition Box Set, a 3LP set which includes the remastered album cut at half speed plus single 180g LP of unreleased home recordings, 2LP and 2CD. The release will also be available on digital/streaming platforms.

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All digital pre-orders for the Archive Collection release of Flaming Pie will include ‘Young Boy’ EP.

'Young Boy' EP

1. Young Boy (Remastered 2020)

2. Young Boy (Home Recording)

3. Looking For You

4. Oobu Joobu Part 1.

PAUL MCCARTNEY ANNOUNCES BREAK UP OF BEATLES APRIL 10 1970

The legendary rock band the Beatles spent the better part of three years breaking up in the late 1960s, and even longer than that hashing out who did what and why. And by the spring of 1970, there was little more than a tangled set of business relationships keeping the group together.

  

Each of the Beatles was pursuing his musical interests outside of the band, and there were no plans in place to record together as a group. But as far as the public knew, this was just a temporary state of affairs. That all changed on April 10, 1970, when an ambiguous Paul McCartney “self-interview” was seized upon by the international media as an official announcement of a Beatles breakup.

The occasion for the statements Paul released to the press that day was the upcoming release of his debut solo album, McCartney

RINGO: NEW RELEASE GIVE MORE LOVE 9-15-17

Give More Love, is Ringo's 19th Studio album. Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles, Give More Love has 10 brand new tracks and 4 bonus tracks featuring collaborations with friends: Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart, Peter Frampton and many more...

Give More Love

Ringo celebrated his birthday July 7 at Capitol Records with a special salute to "Peace & Love" with family, friends and fans. The same day, Ringo also revealed details of his 19th solo album, Give More Love, which will be released by UMe on digital and CD formats on September 15, 2017, with vinyl to follow on September 22, 2017.

Recorded at Ringo’s home studio in Los Angeles, Give More Love has 10 new tracks featuring collaborations with friends including: We’re on the Road Again featuring Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather; Laughable co-written and performed with Peter Frampton as well as Benmont Tench, Timothy B. Schmit, Richard Page and Amy Keys; Show Me the Way co-written and performed with Steve Lukather and with Paul McCartney; Speed of Sound co-written with Richard Marx and featuring Steve Lukather, Peter Frampton and Nathan East; Standing Still co-written with Gary Burr; King of the Kingdom including performances by Dave Stewart and Edgar Winter; Electricity co-written with Glen Ballard and featuring Joe Walsh and Don Was; So Wrong For So Long co-written and performed with Dave Stewart; Shake It Up co-written and performed with Gary Nicholson and including Don Was and Edgar Winter; and Give More Love co-written with Gary Nicholson including Timothy B. Schmit and All Starrs Richard Page and Gregg Bissonette.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 5: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES MAY 26!

Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea—notably Jack.

Jack's only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy.

At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has ever faced.

Last year, we found out that Beatle legend Paul McCartney had been cast in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The fifth movie in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series debuts May 26th at a theater near you.  Check out the fun theater poster featuring Paul above!

MICHAEL JACKSON ACQUIRES BEATLES PUBLISHING AUGUST 14, 1985

It was during their collaboration on 1983’s “Say Say Say” that former Beatle Paul McCartney is said to have advised Michael Jackson to invest some of his enormous wealth in music publishing.

“This is what I do. I bought the Buddy Holly catalog, a Broadway catalog,” McCartney told the young singer. “Here’s the computer printout of all the songs I own.” Jackson was fascinated." Paul McCartney to Michael Jackson

It was sound financial advice that McCartney may have come to regret giving on this day in 1985, when Michael Jackson purchased the publishing rights to the vast majority of the Beatles’ catalog for $47 million, outbidding McCartney himself.

In 1969, the British company Associated TeleVision completed a messy and contentious takeover of Northern Songs, which in turn led Lennon and McCartney to pull out of their contract for future compositions and to sell off their own shares in the company.

More than 15 years later, in 1985, as ATV prepared to sell its entire publishing catalog, Paul McCartney anticipated purchasing it himself, only to be thwarted by Michael Jackson, who was then at the peak of his financial power.

What happened to the Beatles Catalog after MJ died?  Jackson had sold off some of the catalog for 95 million to Sony to subsidize his legal battles and lifestyle.

The publishing rights to most of the Beatles' biggest hits are owned by one entity, a joint venture between the late Michael Jackson and the music arm of Sony Corp. It's called Sony/ATV, and it also owns the rights to songs written by Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Taylor Swift and many more . SEE LIST

The post-script to this story is that as of 2018, Sir Paul will be able to start recouping his ‘lost’ songs in the United States. Due to the nation’s copyright laws, all songs written before 1978 can be reclaimed by its original author after 56 years, so as of 2018 the songs McCartney wrote in 1962 – including ‘Love me do’ – will be his again, with the rest of the catalog trickling back to him over the next eight years… At which point he’ll be 84.

PAUL AND RINGO PERFORMANCE FROM THE GRAMMYS

Paul and Ringo played together tonight on the mostly lackluster Grammy Awards

After being introduced by Julia Roberts, McCartney sat down on a psychedelic-painted piano with Starr on drums and the pair of onetime Beatles performed “Queenie Eye” from Macca’s latest album, New.