Paul McCartney Album "Should Be Ready By the Summer," Morello Record Also Due

Just seven months after the release of Memory Almost Full, Paul McCartney is already brewing up a new album. According to his publicist, "Paul started recording last week, but he has been writing for a while. It should be ready by the summer." McCartney is reportedly working with producer Youth, a founding member of the band Killing Joke and the producer of albums such as the Verve's Urban Hymns and, in some capacity, Guns N' Roses' long-delayed Chinese Democracy.

Not to be outdone by McCartney's prolificacy is Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who released his first solo album as the Nightwatchman in April 2007. Despite touring as both a member of the reunited Rage and as a solo entity, a second solo album is already near completion, with the working title of The Fabled City in place. While no release date is set, Morello expects the album out later this year.

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Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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