Part One: The Icons

By PopMatters Staff

With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird. [28 July 2008]

Reflections of a Renaissance Man: An Interview with Paul McCartney

By Christian John Wikane

From Astaire to T-Pain, from Little Richard to de Kooning, McCartney talks to PopMatters and covers it all, including his uncertainty about what kind of send-off he'd like. [25 June 2007]

Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full

By Zeth Lundy

The former Beatle's third studio album of the new century backtracks on the creative revitalization of 2005's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. [4 June 2007]

Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us [DVD]

By Michael Franco

Buried beneath the excessive adoration and dizzying camerawork is an amazing concert. [18 December 2006]

Paul McCartney: Ecce Cor Meum

By Evan Sawdey

Unfortunately, there are multiple moments where McCartney sounds less like he's composing a classical work as he is a film score (and one to some lightweight romantic-drama, at that). [8 November 2006]

Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

By Zeth Lundy

In collaboration with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Air), McCartney delivers one of the strongest records of his long and winding post-Beatles career. [7 October 2005]

Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney in Red Square [DVD]

By Michael Franco

For decades, the Beatles' albums were banned from the Russian people, who risked imprisonment if caught owning them. Nearly four decades later, Paul McCartney played Red Square; as this film shows, the night was magical, joyous, and more than a little heartbreaking. [13 July 2005]

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S. Live 2002

By Adrien Begrand

Paul McCartney: Driving Rain / Mick Jagger: Goddess in the Doorway

By David Zahl

Whereas experience has reinforced the stubbornness of Paul McCartney's devotion to romantic love, it has humbled Mick Jagger, confronting him with his own frailty, weakness and, ultimately, mortality. [12 November 2001]

Mixed Media: New This Week: Paul McCartney - ‘Good Evening New York City’

McCartney `trying to create an antidote’ for difficult times [4 December 2007]

"I'm from the world of 45's and LP's, then it became cassettes and 8-tracks, then CDs, and now it's downloading. It doesn't make much difference to me."

Paul McCartney frees himself from yesterday and today [6 June 2007]