Sir Paul Mccartney - Paul Mccartney Releasing New Album Featuring Beatles Influences

In a statement reported by the UK's Daily Telegraph, MCCartney revealed that the album will contain two new tracks alongside covers of classic American songs that inspired he and fellow Beatle John Lennon. "When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs were, and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them," explained the star, "I always thought artists like Fred Astaire were very cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys - I just thought the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I thought it's beautiful, the way they made those songs."

Away from music, MCCartney has been fairly busy this year, getting married for the third time to NANCY SHEVELL.