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A new documentary, McCartney 3, 2, 1 starring Beatle Paul McCartney and legendary producer Rick Rubin has been newly created. The duo have paired up to give music lovers a behind the scenes look at some of the biggest tracks from McCartney’s epic career, in the form of an intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary series.
The six-part series is created and hosted by Hulu, and explores the pair’s relationship with the music itself. Spanning songs across the years from The Beatles, to Wings, and onto Paul’s varied solo career, the records are analysed in a conversational manner as well as talking about the time, the friendships, and general life experiences.
Featuring these stories along with several never heard before recordings, the duo pull out and solo instruments in the listening room. The new documentary looks certain to be a hit with music nerds and fans of McCartney and Rubin alike. The series is out now exclusively on Hulu.
For fans of Rubin, it’s well worth checking out the Broken Record podcast which is also hosted and produced by the unbelievable talent of Rick Rubin:
“For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers. Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by the producer Rick Rubin, the writer Malcolm Gladwell, and the former New York Times editor Bruce Headlam.”
If delving into the background and history of McCartney and Rubin has piqued your interest and thirst for more, then look no further than the brand new track from Sir Paul and Beck with their collaboration that is taken from the new record, McCartney III Imagined.
Personally curated by Paul, McCartney III Imagined features an A-List assortment of friends, fans and brand new acquaintances, each reimagining their favourite McCartney III moments in their own signature styles. The result is a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of an album Rolling Stone accurately tagged “an inspiration to us all”—one that serves as an extension of the instantly beloved ‘McCartney III’ while standing on its own as brilliant and adventurous milestone in the McCartney discography.
What’s fascinating about this collaboration (other than the banger of a track, of course) is undoubtedly the music video, which is one of the most interesting concepts for a rather neglected medium in recent years. The video utilises the latest in deepfake technology to depict Paul McCartney as he was in his younger years, dancing through a hotel and across various psychedelic and dreamy scenes. Keep watching until the end for a little twist in the plot.
The technique has gained a lot of publicity (both good and bad) in recent years, and although it has yet to be widely used in the mainstream art world, the technology was famously celebrated for its’ realism and appeal in the recent Martin Scorsese film The Irishman.
The video for Find My Way was co-produced by Hyperreal Digital, directed by Andrew Donoho and choreographed by Phil Tayag. Watch the full video.
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Michelle is a musician and composer from the UK. She has performed across the UK and Europe and is passionate about arts education and opportunities for women and girls.
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