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Paul McCartney Talks New Album, Beatles Breakup on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’<br />I'm an ER Doctor and Here's the Worst Thing You Can Do Now<br />Treasury Secretary Mnuchin expects direct stimulus checks to be released next…<br />Rolling Stone logoPaul McCartney Talks New Album, Beatles Breakup on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’<br /><br />Paul McCartney discussed his new album, the Lennon/McCartney partnership, the Beatles’ breakup and his Covid-19 “rockdown” during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.<br /><br />As correspondent Seth Doane noted at the onset of the conversation, while people in quarantine were learning how to bake bread, McCartney was recording McCartney III.<br /><br />More from Rolling Stone<br />Paul McCartney Delivers a Playful Gem with 'McCartney III'<br />Paul McCartney Hops on His Horse, Joins TikTok<br />Paul McCartney Talks New Album 'McCartney III' on 'Fallon'<br />“The other thing people have been doing has been cleaning out their closets. So that’s a bit what [McCartney III] was,” McCartney said. “I just started cleaning out my cupboards. Like, ‘What about that song last year that I started but never got to finish. ‘Let’s have a look at that, let’s finish this.”<br /><br />McCartney — who performs all the instruments on his latest LP, like the namesake McCartney albums before it — said of working on a completely solo album, “It’s not like working with the band, because I know what I want to hear, and I don’t even have to tell anyone,” McCartney said. “I just said, ‘Let’s do some drums.’ I’ll sit on the drums and I’ll think, ‘OK, I wanted doo doo doo…’ So, it’s all in my head.”<br /><br />McCartney added, “One of the songs on the new album, it’s called ‘Kiss of Venus,’ and I wrote it one summer’s day and I got the beginning of it… I thought, ‘I’ll record it, I’ll finish it someday.’ But then I said to myself, ‘No! What have you got? You haven’t got anything on. Sit here and finish that bloody song.’”<br /><br />The singer was also reluctant to record with anyone else, other than a few engineers at