“The living legend follows 2005's mostly acoustic Chaos and Creation in the Backyard-- a retreat to homespun simplicity-- with a Starbucks-issued record that turns out to be a lot more idiosyncratic than its coffee-chain marketing plan suggests.”
“What’s most remarkable about Paul McCartney’s inaugural album for Starbucks’ Hear Music imprint is its cross-promotional hoo-ha. To win it space on his demographic’s overloaded cerebral hard drives, Memory Almost Full will play all day June 5th in every Starbucks in the world, in ten of which caffeinated fans will send birthday greetings to the […]”