He cites Radiohead, Nirvana and The Beatles as influences

Paul McCartney's son James has announced his first UK headline tour, to take place this February and March.

The jaunt comes after he played a raft of secret gigs last October under the name Light. McCartney has spent much of the last two years recording his debut album, though no release date is confirmed at present.

Speaking about his songs, he said: "The music was inspired by The Beatles, Nirvana, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Radiohead – and all good music. It is basically rock'n'roll, clean-sounding and vocal. We are mixing our album in Sussex and New York. The words on the album refer to spirituality, love, family, trying to sort out one's life, and many other things. I have written the songs over a 10-year period."

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Cheap Trick have never shied away from their Beatles influences -- they're even known in Japan as the "American Beatles." Their brushes with the Fab Four are many: drummer Bun E. Carlos worked with John Lennon and the band collaborated with Beatles producer George Martin nd recording engineer Geoff Emerick on several of their albums. With all these associations, it seemed logical that guitarist Rick Nielsen, who has amassed over 2,000 guitars, would think of parting with one of his prized possessions -- a Les Paul left-handed bass which he thought would be ideal for lefty Paul McCartney.

"I had it years back. I got it because they only made three of them in 1960 and I've been a guitar collector since the '60s," Nielsen tells Spinner. "It was a beautiful guitar but rather than completely changing it and fixing the nut on it and turning the bridge around and a lot of stuff that shouldn't be done to it [for a right-handed person], I said in a guitar magazine, 'McCartney should have this one. He's the only guy that can afford it!' At the time, the guitar was going for about $10,000 and now that guitar is worth at least a million. He read that and, between him and this guitar tech, ended up with it."

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He famously quit EMI after more than four decades, complaining he was being treated as “part of the furniture”.

But now Paul McCartney has inadvertently found his latest single is being released through the music giant from whom he parted company in 2007.

The track, '(I Want To) Come Home', was recorded for the soundtrack of the movie 'Everybody’s Fine' and is due to be released on March 1.

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While presenting during this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, Paul McCartney apparently did a bit of sly promoting of his new animal-rights film, Glass Walls. According to various sources, the legendary musician placed a copy of each DVD, produced by PETA, into the gift bags of presenters and nominees.

As the contents of those bags is something that generally takes months to put together, we’re not sure if McCartney had the Globes’ permission or not.

What we do know is that Glass Walls isn’t some glossy overview of the meat industry — but rather a behind the scenes look at how animals are killed and processed. McCartney, who narrates the film, believes it’s the only real way to inspire people to think about where their food comes from and reduce their consumption of meat. “I’ve often said, ‘If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.’”

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Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell on the red carpet at the Golden Globe awards

The power couple appeared side-by-side at Sunday night's Golden Globes, and the 67-year-old former Beatle has proposed to her, reports the Daily Mail. They've even told friends and family they plan to wed, says the British paper.

She reportedly first met McCartney more than 20 years ago when their families vacationed together, but only started dating him after the musician's messy divorce battle from his second-wife, Heather Mills.

Mills won a whopping $49 million from the divorce, adding to the public's disdain for her. Comedian Ricky Gervais made the payout the subject of a joke at the Golden Globes with McCartney and Shevell in the audience.

"We actually came over [from England] on the same flight," Gervais said. "I didn't get to speak to him because I was up the front in first class. He was behind me in coach. Saving money. He spent an awful lot last year."

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Paul McCartney's I Want To Come Home was nominated but did not win a Golden Globe award, but Paul did do a presentation for best animation which got a laugh from the audience, see the video below and related article from gigwise.com.

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Robert Zemeckis, who is remaking with Disney, The Beatles `Yellow Submarine`, today announced to four actors set to play The Bealtes. Liverpool-born Peter Serafinowicz will play Paul. Dean Lennox Kelly, John. Cary Elwes as George and Adam Cambell, Ringo.

Serafinowicz was in Couples Retreat. Kelly stars on the BBC Robin Hood series. Elwes is more familiar as he was Westley from The Princess Bride and the star of one of the original Saw movies and in Hot Shots, and Campbell, was in both Epic Movie and Date Movie.

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LOS ANGELES — The Golden Globes' guest list includes a former Beatle, an Oscar winner and Indiana Jones.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association says Paul McCartney, Reese Witherspoon and Harrison Ford will be presenters at Sunday's show.

Ricky Gervais will host the 67th annual awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The show will air live on NBC at 8 p.m. ET.

Other presenters include Olivia Wilde, Mickey Rourke, Christina Aguilera, Neil Patrick Harris, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, Sophia Loren and Cher.

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Ringo Starr has praised Paul McCartney as a “genius” for improving his forthcoming solo album.

The former Beatles drummer was delighted when his old bandmate agreed to appear on two tracks, ‘Peace Dream’, and ‘Walk With You’, on his new LP ‘Y Not’ and is amazed at the ideas the singer-and-bassist came up with.

Ringo explained: “Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was playing bass on ‘Peace Dream’.

"So I played him this other track and Paul said, `Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of cans.’ And he went to the mic and he just invented that part where he follows on my vocal. That was all Paul McCartney, and there could be nothing better

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