Travis' Fran Healy has revealed that Paul McCartney is set to feature on his upcoming debut solo album. With a working title of 'Wreckorder', the album includes McCartney playing bass on one of the tracks. more info

Silent Uproar — Fran Healy (of Travis) is currently working on his solo album, tentatively titled Wreckorder. In a pair of blog posts, Healy revealed that both Paul McCartney and Neko Case will perform on the record. [franhealy.com] more info

Guardian Music — The Travis frontman has thanked the former Beatle for playing on his new solo album by waving goodbye to chicken dinnersWhen Travis' Fran Healy convinced Paul McCartney to play on his forthcoming solo album, he didn't pay him in money – he pai... more info

NME — The former Beatle plays bass on his upcoming solo album more info

Starpulse — Paul McCartney will kick off 2010 as an animated Lego brick thanks to a new deal with the "Rock Band" videogame boffins. McCartney will become the first Beatle to have solo material released via [...] Read more! more info

Guardian Music — In hindsight, it does seem unlikely that the famously private – some would say curmudgeonly – Van Morrison would have chosen to bugle the news that he had joined Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart in becoming a father again in ... more info

Guardian Music — Ian Jack's anecdotal impression of the importance of the Beatles' music (The music that brushed away repression, 19 December) recognises no continuum in popular music, but merely reinforces the old saw of a socially inevitable 60s step change in soun... more info

Rolling Stone — Paul McCartney became a video game avatar earlier this year with his Fab Four bandmates in The Beatles: Rock Band, but until now the series has been devoid of any solo Macca material. That will change on January 5th, when three tracks from McCartneyâ... more info

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Guardian Music — O2 Arena, London SE10The same week that Paul McCartney finished his first UK tour in six years, Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood's partisan biopic of John Lennon's early years, began its run in cinemas. When casting the young McCartney, Taylor-Wood seems... more info