Post by nowheregirl on Apr 28, 2007 10:49:57 GMT 1
Mirror.co.uk
Sir Paul McCartney has been getting over his bitter divorce battle with Heather Mills by learning to play the mandolin.
The former Beatle, 64, reckons the medieval instrument "lifted" him over recent months as he recorded a new solo album.
He told Uncut magazine: "I bought a mandolin. It isn't tuned like a guitar so I didn't know my way around it.
"But the feeling of picking my way through and finding chords was magic. It was like I was 17 again.
"I remembered - this is what it is all about. It was like me and John (Lennon) learning piano. You play and then you hit a wrong note and you go 'ooohh!'
"And you write a whole song on that chord.
"The excitement of getting the mandolin, finding new chords - that's really lifted me, that has.
"That's the opening track to my new album."
McCartney's CD is being released by Starbucks in a revolutionary new deal.
It will come out in June and be sold in the coffee shop chain's 13,500 outlets.
Sir Paul McCartney has been getting over his bitter divorce battle with Heather Mills by learning to play the mandolin.
The former Beatle, 64, reckons the medieval instrument "lifted" him over recent months as he recorded a new solo album.
He told Uncut magazine: "I bought a mandolin. It isn't tuned like a guitar so I didn't know my way around it.
"But the feeling of picking my way through and finding chords was magic. It was like I was 17 again.
"I remembered - this is what it is all about. It was like me and John (Lennon) learning piano. You play and then you hit a wrong note and you go 'ooohh!'
"And you write a whole song on that chord.
"The excitement of getting the mandolin, finding new chords - that's really lifted me, that has.
"That's the opening track to my new album."
McCartney's CD is being released by Starbucks in a revolutionary new deal.
It will come out in June and be sold in the coffee shop chain's 13,500 outlets.