“Everyone cleaned out their closets and achieved all they had planned to do. Making an album was like that for me,” he said. “I had no intention of making an album. So I had ten songs and wondered, ‘What am I going to do with them?’ I had no idea I was making an album, so I only recorded ten tracks.”

Regarding the album’s title, McCartney explained to Elba that naming it McCartney III was a natural choice, given the solo nature of the project and its continuity with his previous solo albums, McCartney I and McCartney II. “I realized, since I played ‘McCartney I’ and ‘McCartney II’ myself, that I had done them in the same style, so this would be ‘McCartney III.’ So then I thought, ‘Okay, now I know what I’m doing.’”
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