McCartney says new CD 'personal'
Miriam Liddle  |  by jam.canoe.ca. All rights reserved. 21.05 | 9:13

NEW YORK (AP) - Paul McCartney says his upcoming album, "Memory Almost Full," looks back to the past. "In places it's a very personal record and a lot of it is retrospective, drawing from memory, like memories from being a kid, from Liverpool and from summers gone," the 64-year-old ex-Beatle said Monday in a statement. "The album is evocative, emotional, rocking, but I can't really sum it up in one sentence," he said.

"Memory Almost Full," McCartney's 21st solo album, will be released in June. It is his first for Hear Music, Starbucks' new music label. A medley of five songs on the 13-track disc is "purposely retrospective," said the legendary singer-songwriter.

"I thought this might be because I'm at this point in my life, but then I think about the times I was writing with John (Lennon) and a lot of that was also looking back." Film director Michel Gondry has directed a music video - starring Natalie Portman - for the opening track "Dance Tonight," but McCartney said he's "not going to give the plot away." McCartney last released the acclaimed "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," in 2005.

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