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For someone so prolific, Paul McCartney has released very few compilations, averaging less than one per decade. Pure McCartney is only the f...

MusiCares is a charity run by the Recording Academy. Each year, in the same week as the Grammy awards, they recognise a Person of the Ye...

On October 13th last year, I went to my nearest record store which, thanks to modern technology, is now a bit over an hour’s drive away. ...

The remaster of the second album by what is generally regarded as the ‘classic’ lineup of Wings sounds just as good as its predecessor. Ste...

There is a bit of a mythology around remasters. It’s debatable as to whether the average fan is really going to hear the improvement abov...

Let's be honest: awards nights are just an irrelevant circle-jerk and music awards shows are doubly so. The Grammy Awards perhaps have t...

The US Target edition of New comes with a bonus DVD called A Rendez-vous with Paul McCartney. It’s a 22-minute interview, con...

In the CD age, an entire concert can usually fit comfortably onto a double live album, so it’s easy to forget that in 1976 the idea of re...