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"Sir Paul McCartney has discussed the making of his new album. The former Beatles star is releasing his latest record  New on October 14, and said that he wanted to avoid sounding dated.  &amp;quot;I wanted something that didn&amp;#039;t sound old-fashioned,&amp;quot; he told The Sun. &amp;quot;I wasn&amp;#039;t prepared to go as far as a Katy Perry bass-drum pop sound - even though I think she makes good records. But there was an endeavour to make it sound at home in the contemporary scene.&amp;quot; Speaking about why he worked with four different producers on the album, he explained: &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t really have an idea who I would be working with but I had been watching the scene. &amp;quot;Ethan Johns had done Ryan Adams and Kings of Leon and I knew I liked what he&amp;#039;d done there. I knew Mark Ronson had done Amy Winehouse as well as a lot of other good records. &amp;quot;I knew Paul Epworth had worked with Adele and I knew Giles Martin from his work on The Beatles&amp;#039; Love album.  &amp;quot;It was like having all four of them on shuffle. It kept it really interesting and I never knew quite what was going to happen next. And it certainly wasn&amp;#039;t boring.&amp;quot; The singer, who recently played a surprise show in New York&amp;#039;s Times Square, added: &amp;quot;Being in The Beatles was phenomenally special but we could have been dead and gone long ago and people wouldn&amp;#039;t remember this strange little group from Liverpool. &amp;quot;Then what happens is you find an awful lot of people doing the Wings sign in the audience, so there&amp;#039;s that generation too. It&amp;#039;s pretty amazing to still be there making new music alongside that legendary reputation.&amp;quot; Watch the lyric video for Paul McCartney&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;New&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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