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McCartney Visits His Roots in New Album

One of the enduring questions in the history of pop music is how two teenagers
from Liverpool with a background in skiffle and rock 'n roll became among the
most inventive songwriters of the last 50 years, producing an enormous
variety of tunes that broke new ground for pop music both melodically and
harmonically.  Those songwriters of course, were John Lennon and Paul
McCartney of the Beatles at right.  Now Mr. McCartney, at 69, says he is putting
out an album of standards from his youth, calling them "the songs which
inspired the songs."  Mr. McCartney announced that he would release the album
this month saying it was time "the songs me and John based quite a few of our
things on" received the attention they deserve.

"When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs
were, and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them," Mr. McCartney said.  The
song list for the album has yet to be released.  Mr. McCartney said it includes
classic American compositions by songwriters like Cole Porter and Harold Arlen,
many of which he heard his father, a jazz musician, play on the piano in their home.  He said he recorded the songs over the last year at
the Capitol studios in Los Angeles with Diana Krull and her band.  He did the vocals himself but, for the first time in his long career, left all
the instrumental work to others, Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder play on the two original songs, he said.

                                                               
                                                               
Excerpted - The New York Times/James McKinney      
                                                                       
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