Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have some new music to share.
McCartney has released "Junior's Farm" from his forthcoming album, One Hand Clapping.
This version was recorded a month after the version he released in October 1974.
In August 1974, when Band on the Run was topping the charts, he and Wings went into London's Abbey Road Studios to film of a video documentary and possible live studio album. Filmed and recorded over four days, the project was scrapped, although McCartney has released some of the material.
Now set for release on June 14th, One Hand Clapping features the audio recorded for the film, several additional songs recorded off-camera, and the original artwork designed for the project, including a TV sales brochure for the unreleased film at the time.
Opening with an instrumental jam that would become the One Hand Clapping theme song, the album features live-in-studio renditions of “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Jet,” “My Love,” “Hi, Hi, Hi,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” and the aforementioned “Junior’s Farm,” plus covers of The Beatles’ “Let It Be,” “The Long and Winding Road” and “Lady Madonna,” and the song Wings guitarist Denny Laine sang when he was in The Moody Blues -- “Go Now.”
One Hand Clapping will be released in multiple formats, including an online exclusive two-LP plus seven-inch package featuring a vinyl single of previously unreleased solo performances recorded on the final day of the sessions in the backyard of Abbey Road studios. These include the unreleased track “Blackpool,” "Country Dreamer," The Beatles’ "Blackbird,” Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” and Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” and “I’m Gonna Love You Too.”
Ringo's new EP, Crooked Boy, originally released on April 20th in a limited edition on Record Store Day, is now available for streaming everywhere. The black vinyl and CD will follow on May 31st.
To mark the digital release, he's released a video for one of the songs, "Gonna Need Someone," which features footage of him from the '60s, '70s and '80s, including being on stage with his first All Starr Band in 1989.
Ringo also posted on YouTube the visualizer for the song "Adeline" off his new EP, Crooked Boy.
If you watch and say, 'Wait, I've seen this before," that's because it's very similar to the visualizer for the first song released off the EP, "February Sky."