McCartney planning massive world tour in wake of divorce

Posted Apr 11th 2008 5:43PM by Richard Driver
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In the wake of his nasty divorce, Paul McCartney and his management are in the process of planning a massive world tour for next fall including shows in the United States. According to British newspaper NME, McCartney is also preparing to debut a large amount of new material on the tour, which will undoubtedly also feature material from his most recent album Memory Almost Full after McCartney played only limited venues last summer for its promotion. The pending tour will be the largest of its size for McCartney in nearly three years, after he toured in promotion of his 2006 Grammy Award winning album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.

The announcement that a tour is in the planning stages comes nearly a month after a British court awarded McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills a nearly $49 million divorce settlement, granting her about $34,000 a day for their marriage. McCartney's separation from Mills began in the summer of 2006, and the divorce included security matters and details related to the pair's daughter.

There should be no surprise that McCartney would begin to plan a massive world tour, especially given that he was unable to do one after Memory Almost Full was released last summer and he has a history of going on the road after every new album in recent years. Some may question the timing given how recent his divorce was finalized. Regardless, the prospect of new material is very exciting and may indicate that the tour is not in promotion of a past album, but of one to come. If that's the case then attendees and listeners will be in for a treat since no new album has even been hinted at or mentioned aside from long term deals with Starbucks' (NASDAQ: SBUX) Hear Music.

That prospect, combined with the success McCartney has enjoyed with Hear Music could mean that a new album would fare very well. Time and a tour will only tell that outcome though.

Tags: Heather Mills, HeatherMills, inthenews, McCartney divorce, McCartney tour, MccartneyDivorce, MccartneyTour, NME, Paul McCartney, PaulMccartney, SBUX

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4-11-2008 @ 6:20PM

Dave said...

good for paul!

4-11-2008 @ 7:12PM

william lindblad said...

Great idea - it will keep him busy and provide a lot of entertainment to the public. I don't tink anyone has to tell him to be carefull with women.

4-11-2008 @ 7:46PM

Mark Dias said...

Paul has always been my favorite Beatle. It would be great to see my daughter to see him.

4-11-2008 @ 10:20PM

Fred said...

Good for Paul. His music on great. He'll make more $ on this tour than he had to give to Heather Mills but she'll probably want to go back to court to get more $ out of him.

4-11-2008 @ 11:40PM

Ski said...

Looking forward to a new McCartney.

4-12-2008 @ 12:51PM

JimMc said...

In every sense of the term, Paul is a Living Legend, one of the walking gods as musicians would say. If you ever have the chance to see him live, drop what you've planned, do it, you won't regret it and you'll never forget it.

4-12-2008 @ 7:16AM

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4-12-2008 @ 8:14AM

leisingfel said...

old people's homes will love it

4-12-2008 @ 1:11PM

moonie said...

GOOOOOOOOOOOO Paul i'm also a mucician and i understand good best way to get some frustration out as i also suffered a bad divorce, my wife is heartless anyway so i don't care. So i play music until i die good outlet for frustration of my divorce it helps me a lot to kill some of the pain because my precious daughter was involved so it goes go Paul let it out long time admirer of you and the beatles. If you ever need a damn good bassman Paul i'll be happy to fill in it would be an honor. Don't worry Paul your wife didnt love you anyway. Go man, you're better off !

4-12-2008 @ 3:26PM

L. said...

Hell - If I had known Paul wanted to get married again, I'd have married. Paul write me anytime.

4-18-2008 @ 8:30AM

Raymond Barcelos said...

I've seen Paul in conceert twice. He's terrific and he has a lot of energy. With a cataloq of songs that he has how else could he be but fantastic. Going to see him brings back such wondefful memories of the 60's and beyond. It's the best two and a half hours of your life seeing one of his concerts.