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An update on Paul’s video game music for “Destiny”:

Sir Paul McCartney Composing Video Game Music

Bungie, the developers of the beloved Halo franchise, revealed a heaping stack of new information on their otherwise hushed game project “Destiny” this Sunday.

While that seems of little importance to the music world, there is an interesting guest aiding in the soundtrack composition for the game.

Regular fans of the franchise would be familiar with the composer Marty O’Donnell for his monolithic contributions to the previous Halo soundtracks, but this time he is getting a little help from rock n’ roll legend, Sir Paul McCartney .

O’Donnell has been working with McCartney for roughly two years, creating the early soundtrack at the very Abbey Road Studios of Beatles fame. This collaboration has allowed McCartney to expand work with new melodic constructions and themes.

O’Donnell said this about McCartney: “He didn’t only want to do Paul McCartney music. He wants to get involved in themes, how melodies and motives can be a touchpoint for people.”

O’Donnell also commented on the cool factor associated with working with the former Beatle. In their discussions, O’Donnell mentioned that things like the looping on “Tomorrow Never Knows ” are similar to what makes interactive music interesting.

O’Donnell mentioned of McCartney that “He said ‘I’m gonna get that [looping] machine out of my closet and send you some stuff,'” and so it turns out that some of the game recordings have been done with the very same looping machine used on Revolver . Fun fact if you ever find yourself playing it one day.

So what’s your take on all this? Is McCartney better off making “Paul McCartney music”, or is it good that he is branching off into new fields?

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^^ The film will be screening in Atlanta and Cleveland.

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A few things:

Salon.com article on newly released interviews with John and Yoko:

But the excerpt we have here is something else entirely: It is one of five intimate conversations Howard had with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (who turned 80 on February 18), who met with him in their St. Regis Hotel room in Manhattan, less than a year before the couple would settle in New York City, and the day Lennon’s album “Imagine ” hit the shelves. A month later, on Lennon’s 31st birthday, the album would hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and become his best-selling album for the next decade. On it is a track, entitled “How Do You Sleep?,” in which Lennon responds acidly to McCartney’s song, “Too Many People ,” from his solo album, “Ram ,” which came out a month earlier — a kind of precursor to Jay-Z vs. Nas rap wars. Lennon can’t quite anticipate McCartney’s response — or his fans’, for that matter — but suffice it to say, it only exacerbates their rift, and earns him few sympathizers.

A lovely birthday tribute to George at his star on the Walk of Fame that includes this bit about another celebration taking place next year:

Jerry [Rubin] told the group, “The 2014 ‘Beatles 50th Anniversary on the Ed Sullivan Show Public Celebration’ will be February 9, 2014, starting at 1:00 p.m. at the Beatles star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame Annex at Hollywood Blvd. and La Brea. Fans will then begin a march down Hollywood Blvd. at 2:00 p.m., concluding at the Capitol Records Tower Building, (where the stars for John, Paul, George, and Ringo are located) with a 2:30 p.m. rally, cake-cutting, music, and special guest speakers… including an Ed Sullivan impersonator, live at this ‘reaallly big shew’”

A comic book being released tomorrow about Paul and the break-up.

Bluewater Productions’ new comic book, Paul McCartney: Carry That Weight , promises to give fans a new perspective on why the Beatles really broke up— and it wasn’t because of Yoko Ono the publisher asserts

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Found a preview of that comic online. It doesn’t look good.

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