Sir Paul McCartney announced the release date for his new album McCartney III Imagined on Thursday.
The Beatles icon, 78, originally released the record in December last year, but has now given it a new lease of life with a special collaboration record alongside artists like Phoebe Bridgers and Josh Homme.
On the album, the musicians have covered or reimagined their favourite tracks from McCartney’s original release in their own signature styles.
Exciting: Sir Paul McCartney announced the release of new album McCartney III Imagined on Thursday, which sees other singers cover the Beatles icon’s hits from the original
American singer and rapper Dominic Fike has done his own take of The Kiss of Venus, taking the acoustic track and creating an R&B hit.
Other artists working on the album include Damon Albarn, Beck, Blood Orange, Khraungbin, 3D RDN of Massive Attack, Ed O’Brien (EOB), Anderson .Paak, and St. Vincent, amongst others.
McCartney III is the third in a trilogy of albums made by the musician, his first solo album was released in 1970, followed by McCartney II in 1980 and the third in December last year.
Intriguing: On the album, musicians like Phoebe Bridgers and Josh Homme have covered or reimagined their favourite tracks from McCartney’s original album in their signature styles
Paul made the three albums during different periods of isolation, the latest of which was the result of lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis.
McCartney III Imagined is set to be released in physical formats, including exclusive colour vinyl editions available at Target, Barnes & Noble, Indie record stores, Newbury Comics, and Paul McCartney’s own website.
As well as the aforementioned tracks, the physical editions of the album will also include an exclusive bonus track of Idris Elba’s re-imagined version of Long Tailed Winter Bird.
Last month it was revealed the singer was releasing a new book titled The Lyrics, which will see him recount his life through the 154 songs he’s written.
In it Sir Paul will reflect on his life, from his boyhood to the present day, based on the compositions in the particular period of time in the 900-page autobiography, which has been long-awaited among Beatles fans.
Gushing about the project, Sir Paul, who has enlisted the help of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Mundoon for the book, said: ‘I hope that what I’ve written will show people something about my songs and my life which they haven’t seen before.
Candid portrait: Last month it was revealed the singer was releasing a new book titled The Lyrics, which will see him recount his life through the 154 songs he’s written (pictured during a photoshoot in 1963 in Weston Super-Mare)
‘I’ve tried to say something about how the music happens and what it means to me and I hope what it may mean to others too.’
He went on: ‘More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right…
‘The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks…
‘What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life’
Adorable: Sir Paul will reflect on his life, from his boyhood to the present day, based on the compositions in the particular period of time in the 900-page autobiography (Sir Paul pictured with daughter Mary in 1969)