Paul McCartney is already busy promoting his new album Egypt Station and will appear tomorrow (September 6th) on NBC’s The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and on Friday night (September 7th) — the day that the new album drops — “Macca” will perform in New York City at a yet-to-be disclosed venue, which according to an inside source is somewhere “within the five boroughs.”

McCartney has posted “Words Between The Tracks” clips on his official YouTube channel, which feature the former Beatle discussing the back-story to all the songs on the album. As if the promotion for the album wasn’t already at a saturation point, the MTA has issued a limited run of Egypt Station subway Metro Cards.

Paul McCartney was asked if he felt it was tough over the years to have people feel comfortable critiquing his work during the recording process: “I’ve never thought about it, to tell you the truth, till people started to point it out; that with the reputation that I’ve got of having kind of done a lot, that anyone that hasn’t quite done as much will be a bit, ‘Oh my God — I’m not gonna tell him — you tell him it’s rubbish!’ I mean, obviously, when you’ve played stuff to people when you were at the height of the Beatles, it was fairly difficult for them to tell you it wasn’t any good. Y’know, it’s not a new thing. And so, I normally would kind of say to people, ‘No, go on, I encourage you to tell me if it’s rubbish,’ y’know?”

Paul McCartney tour dates (subject to change):
September 17 – Quebec City, QC – The Videotron Centre
September 20 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
September 28 – Winnipeg, MB – Bell MTS Place
September 30 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
October 5, 12 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Music Festival
October 31 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome
November 1 – Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome
November 8 – Nagoya, Japan – Nagoya Dome
November 28 – Paris, France – U-Arena
November 30 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
December 3 – Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena
December 5, 6 – Vienna, Austria – Vienna Stadhalle
December 12 – Liverpool, England – Echo Arena
December 14 – Glasgow, Scotland – SSE Hydro
December 16 – London, England – O2 Arena
May 27 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena
May 30 – Greenville, SC – Bon Secours Wellness Arena
June 1 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
June 6 – Madison, WI – Kohl Center