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Paul McCartney says "Memory Almost Full" isn't nostalgic

Paul McCartney says that his new album, Memory Almost Full, isn't based on nostalgia -- despite the fact that the album's first single is called "My Ever Present Past." McCartney told pitchforkmedia.com that, "I wouldn't use the word nostalgia so much. Nostalgia implies something a bit soppy -- it's not a sort of very complimentary word. I would use the word 'memory' more, because I think a lot of artists use memories."He added that, "You know, you're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years."

McCartney chronicles key moments in his life in the song "That Was Me," which touches upon his childhood and early Beatles days, and even looks forward by writing his own requiem for the album's stately closer, "End Of The End." Macca did admit that the album has one foot rooted in the past: "I did look at the album and think, 'Whoa, it's all very retrospective.' But then I thought, "Wait a minute, when I was twenty-something I was writing about Penny Lane, which was my teenage years.' So, it's something you do. If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

" McCartney's Memory Almost Full" will be released on June 5th. The album is available for pre-order on amazon.com. A special video of McCartney in his London office performing the album's lead cut "Dance Tonight" can be accessed by logging on to amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/3753.Flashback: It was 31 years ago today (May 22nd, 1976) that Wings' "Silly Love Songs" earned Macca his fifth Number One hit and went on to top the charts for five weeks. "Silly Love Songs" proved to be McCartney's third most successful post-Beatles single to date, following his 1983 duet with Michael Jackson on "Say, Say, Say," which topped the charts for six weeks, and his 1982 duet with Stevie Wonder on "Ebony And Ivory," which spent seven weeks at Number One.
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