On Thursday evening, Sir Paul McCartney completed his Got Back tour with an epic final show at London’s O2 Arena.
Beatles fans were ecstatic when Sir Ringo Starr joined Macca on stage for Sgt Pepper’s and Helter Skelter during the encore.
Now as he winds down for a well earned Christmas break after completing his post-pandemic world tour, Sir Paul has been answering some fan questions.
Published today on his official website, the final one asked the 82-year-old music icon: “Do you have any New Year’s resolutions for 2025?”
And it turns out Macca has been working on a new solo album.
Sir Paul’s last record of new material was 2020’s McCartney III, following in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II, in which he sings and performs on every instrument across all the tracks. In the almost five years since the release of his lockdown album, he’s put out 2021’s remix record McCartney III Imagined, with other artists covering the tracks from McCartney III. More recently, he released the live-in-studio album One Hand Clapping almost 50 years after the Wings record was recorded. Now, it sounds like we could hear his latest solo album as early as this time next year.
Answering the question on New Year’s resolutions for 2025, Macca replied today: “Here’s one: finish an album! I’ve been working on a lot of songs, and have had to put it to the side because of the tour. So, I’m hoping to get back into that and finish up a lot of these songs. So, how’s about that? ‘My New Year’s resolution is to finish a new album!’ How about that for a teaser? You can do it, Paul!”