New Music: Paul McCartney - "Christmas Song"

Legendary ex-Beatle Paul McCartney revealed recording of "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)". Cover of this classic Christmas tune can be found on special edition of his latest record entitled Kisses On The Bottom - Complete Kisses, which will come out next week (November 26) on iTunes. It will feature all original 14 tracks + 4 bonus tracks and DVD of a concert filmed at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Speaking to NME he said about the song:

""Doing 'Chestnuts" was a bit intimidating because when you do these old songs, there's so many good versions of them – particularly Nat King Cole's in this case. So, I thought, 'You know what, I'm not even going to listen to it, I'm not going to see who's done it, I'm not even going to figure out how I'm going to sing it. So it was just done in one afternoon in New York. And I'm quite pleased with it, because it's not like anyone else's version."

By the way, already mentioned concert featured on special edition of his last album is the first one that Paul performed completely without playing any instrument. That's quite interesting.

Paul said about this experience:

"It was a bit naked, you never realise how much your guitar or piano is protection. There's something between you and the sound. Like you're plugged into the music, because you've got your hands on the keys, or you've got your hands on the fret. When you haven't got anything, it's like: what do you do with your hands? They feel very awkward. So there was a bit of hand waving here or there, but that was it. No mic techniques. No [Roger] Daltrey swirling."

So watch the "Christmas Song" here and don't forget that the Capitol concert will be aired on british public tv called ITV tomorrow (November 24).