McCartney
	Produced by Paul McCartney
	Released on April 17, 1970
	UK CHART POSITION #2 . . . US CHART POSITION #1 . . . GOLD RECORD (4/30/70), 2x PLATINUM (12/3/91)
	Find it at GEMM
PC 36478 cover [high resolution photo]

A musical scrapbook that suggests what Paul might have walked into the Let It Be sessions with: sketches, songs and scribblings. McCartney isn’t likely to lessen the sting of The Beatles breakup, but the scraps that fall from this songwriter’s table should feed the faithful: “Teddy Boy,” “Maybe I’m Amazed” and “Every Night” are plenty filling, for dessert try some “Singalong Junk.” Not surprisingly, a lot of people don’t like this album; released into the market alongside Let It Be, McCartney was the unwelcome reaper come early. The question that no doubt rose in many minds was: Why did The Beatles have to die for McCartney to live? You won’t find the answer here. What you will find is a toy chest filled with lost melodies, tantalizing tidbits and a handful of songs that never need winding. I return to this album not infrequently, usually after I’ve exhausted Ram in search of Paul’s Atlantean exploits. What listeners take away depends on their tastes; it’s certain that some have found a home for “Man We Was Lonely” and the homemade “That Would Be Something.” Even “Hot As Sun” earned a second life (at a higher speed, presumably 45 rpm) as the theme to the syndicated Popeye cartoons of the late ‘70s or early ‘80s. (Didn’t think we’d catch that, huh?) While I wouldn’t look too closely for the meaning of “Kreen-Akrore” or “Oo You,” dismissing this album out of hand as unfinished or inferior to The Beatles misses the point. It may have been a convenient closet-cleaning exercise (a charge leveled against All Things Must Pass as well) or an indication that Paul would be taking a vacation from The Beatles’ long hours passed in painstaking detail. In the end, it all comes down to this: one man’s “Junk” is another man’s treasure.

PC 36478 inner gatefold	PC 36478 back cover	STAO 3363 back cover (w. heart in bottom RH corner)

TRACK LISTING

1. THE LOVELY LINDA    0:43
2. THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING    2:37
3. VALENTINE DAY    1:40
4. EVERY NIGHT    2:30
5. HOT AS SUN/GLASSES    2:06
6. JUNK    1:55
7. MAN WE WAS LONELY    2:57
8. OO YOU    2:50
9. MOMMA MISS AMERICA    4:05
10. TEDDY BOY    2:22
11. SINGALONG JUNK    2:34
12. MAYBE I'M AMAZED    3:49
13. KREEN-AKRORE    4:11
    
    All songs written by Paul McCartney

CREDITS

PAUL McCARTNEY -- instruments and voices
LINDA McCARTNEY -- photos and harmonies

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