PAUL´S NEW ALBUM : "I NEVER GOT ROUND TO IT BECAUSE WE WERE WRITING SGT PEPPER [or] WHITE ALBUM"

Paul McCartney's new album is the album he always wanted to make with the Beatles, he has revealed. After bonding with John Lennon over 30s pop songs, McCartney said he dreamed of putting together a collection of old favourites. "I never got round to it because we were writing Sgt Pepper [or] The White Album," he explained.

Kisses on the Bottom, due in February, is McCartney's first pop album in almost five years. Comprising 12 covers and two originals, it was inspired by the soundtrack of his childhood – songs such as Bye Bye Blackbirdand It's Only a Paper Moon, his father's favourite. "My dad was a piano player," McCartney said in a webcast on Thursday. Like Lennon, McCartney grew up attending Liverpool sing-songs; this music, he said, "drew us together". "We'd be referencing those [classic] songs as we wrote the new songs," McCartney said.

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