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May 09, 2005

McCartney + Godrich = McCartney III?

I've been reading a great book on under the radar musical treasures called Lost in the Grooves (web site here and blog here), which covers albums that were either overlooked, badly reviewed or under-marketed when they originally came out. One such release was Paul McCartney's post-pot bust 4-track experimental album McCartney II (on which he played all the instruments in a sequel to his first solo album McCartney).

For his next album, McCartney told Rolling Stone [via] that Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich convinced him to play all the instruments (as he did on McCartney, McCartney II and the "Spies Like Us" theme song–ok, maybe not that one). As long as Godrich can avoid too much knob twiddling, this news is almost as exciting as hearing that Sting has started rocking seldom heard Police tunes in concert again.

Update: Some great Lost in the Grooves merch (including illustrations from Tom Neely) from Cafe Press here.

Posted by timothompson at May 9, 2005 03:42 PM