The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper may be rapidly approaching its 40th birthday, and the guy who sang "When I'm 64" on that disc, Sir Paul McCartney, is closing in on his own 65th. But don't think for a second that he's lost touch with pop culture's cutting edge over the decades — or at least, don't say so to his face. Sir Paul has been going to great lengths lately to show that he's still way hip, after all. First, he decided to ditch the archaic major-label system and release his new album Memory Almost Full (due June 5) on Hear Music, the upstart label created by Starbucks. And yesterday, he announced that the video for Memory's first single, "Dance Tonight" — directed by of-the-moment helmer Michel Gondry and co-starring the similarly au courant Natalie Portman — would get its world premiere via YouTube. (That's right, folks, even the Beatles know what YouTube is. Maybe Ringo's watching your webcam diary right now!)
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May 23, 2007, 04:27 PM by Simon Vozick-Levinson
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