PAUL McCartney'S BEST 10 ALBUMS!!

In 2007, Paul scored pretty good with Memory Almost Full. Two singles from the album "Ever Present Past" and "Dance Tonight", gave the album the boost to become a Top 10 seller, even a couple of Grammy nominations.

The album atmosphere is one of retrospection. The album was done during his bitter separation of wife Heather Mills so a lot of emotions are going through Paul's, mind and soul and are evident on the songs, looking back on his life and what life will bring to him.  Backed with his touring band, McCartney's melancholic lyrics have a new life, even hints of positivity and hope.

This is the best introduction to McCartney's post Beatle efforts. Even though it has material up to 1987, it is the best representation of Paul's core work with Wings and as a solo artist. Other compilations have followed, including more material and including his recent output, but this album includes his best known tunes. Great for the casual listener and for the music lover that don't want to buy a McCartney box set.

After Linda McCartney's untimely passing, Paul meets, and marries model Heather Mills. This gives him a revived spirit and goes back to the studio.  The album's tone is of hope and coming to terms with the events on his life, and many songs were inspired by Heather Mills. 

Check out: 

• Lonely Road
• From a Lover to a Friend
• Driving Rain
• Tiny Bubble
• Spinning on an Axis
• Your Loving Flame".

After being savagely criticized for his earlier effort "McCartney", Paul decides to go on and do a full, "professional" album. He goes to New York, hires session players Denny Seiwell (drums) and guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken (both eventually worked years later with John Lennon) and along with his wife Linda records what eventually be RAM.

Presenting a more polished work and preceded by the beautiful single "Another Day", the album topped the charts giving McCartney a well needed boost. Even though critics slammed it due to McCartney's "incoherence", the album presented McCartney's talent to write beautiful melodies like "The Back Seat of My Car". The album sparked a public war with former bandmate John Lennon when Paul criticized Lennon's political activism in "Too Many People", which prompted John to lash out full force on his album "Imagine" with the songs "How Do You Sleep" and "Crippled Inside".  The other two Beatles felt attacked too, believing the song "3 Legs" was a jab to them. To make matters worst, there was a picture on the album jacket showing two beetles copulating. It was Paul's message that a "beetle" was screwing another "beetle".

Check out "Dear Boy", "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", "Heart of the Country" and "Eat at Home" on an album that is considered by modern critics to be the father of indie pop.

The decade of the 70's started out roughly for Paul with the dissolution of the Beatles, the distressing legal affairs of their Apple corporation and the disheartening critics for his debut album "McCartney".  The decade of the 1980's were no different. His January 1980 marijuana conviction in Japan killed any chances and hopes that his recent album "Back To the Egg" would gain speed after its sluggish start. His incarceration in Japan stopped Wings (and plans for a world tour) right on its tracks.

After returning to London, McCartney gave Wings a break and worked on his second solo album which will eventually became "McCartney II".  Again his album was lashed by the critics, although commercially successful. He regrouped Wings in the fall of 1980, working with the band, as well as long time Beatles producer George Martin when John Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980.  It was devastating to Paul.

Two months later, he went back to the studio with no plans of continuing Wings or at least, touring with Wings. Denny Laine didn't want to go on hiatus and released a solo album and eventually left the band the next year.  After their massive success in the 70's, Wings simply fizzled.  

Meanwhile, back in the studio, Paul was collaborating and recording with Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Carl Perkins, Eric Stewart, Ringo Starr and laying down several songs in the process.  The sessions were so productive that several of its tracks were held over for McCartney's next album, Pipes of Peace, which followed in 1983. The freedom he found outside of a band environment  was evident on Tug Of War. In contrary to his earlier solo albums, in which he did everything by himself, this time he was inspired (and challenged) by the different musicians around him.  The result was Tug of War, the album that gave Paul the credibility and acceptance he always sought after the Beatles breakup, selling millions of copies worldwide and giving Paul a solid reputation as a songwriter and musician.

Tug of War is definitely, Paul McCartney's best album!!

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Tug of War
• Take It Away
• What's That You're Doing? (Duet with Stevie Wonder)
• Here Today
• Ballroom Dancing
• Get It (Duet with Carl Perkins)
• Ebony and Ivory (Duet with Stevie Wonder)