McCARTNEY
McCartney is the debut studio album by English musician Paul McCartney. It was issued on Apple Records in April 1970 after McCartney had resisted attempts by his fellow Beatles to have the release delayed to allow for Apple’s previously scheduled titles, notably the band’s Let It Be album; the conflict over its release further estranged McCartney from his bandmates. Apart from then-wife Linda’s vocal contributions, McCartney performed the entire album by himself, playing every instrument. The song “Maybe I’m Amazed” was consistently singled out for praise in album reviews. Commercially, McCartney benefited from the publicity surrounding the break-up of the Beatles in the same time period; it held the number 1 position for three weeks on the US Billboard 200 chart and peaked at number 2 in Britain. (More from Wikipedia)
Not long after I first got to college at North Carolina State University (probably in late 1969), one of the big record stores in Raleigh, the Record Bar (which was within walking distance of the campus) had several tables set up in the middle of the store that were piled high with bootleg albums. I had never heard of such a thing before, so I snapped up four right away, including Kum Back by the Beatles (practice sessions for the Let it Be album for the most part, sounds like, and including an 8- or 9-minute version of “Teddy Boy” – that song was originally going to be on Let it Be; but instead, “Teddy Boy” is on Paul McCartney’s solo album McCartney).
(April 2012)
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One thing about Kum Back that I didn’t particularly like was the seemingly endless performance of “Teddy Boy”; unlike most of the songs on the album that became part of the Beatles’ Let it Be album, “Teddy Boy” was instead released as a song on Paul McCartney’s first solo album, McCartney – this album actually came out in April 1970, the month before Let it Be. (McCartney is not the first solo album by a Beatle though; Wonderwall Music, a soundtrack album of Indian classical music for a film called Wonderwall, was released in November 1968 by George Harrison).
(September 2017)
