Greg Kurstin Album Notes Preceded by two of its tracks released as double A-sides - plaintive ballad 'I Don't Know' and raucous stomper 'Come On To Me' -Egypt Station was recorded between Los Angeles, London and Sussex, and produced (with the exception of one Ryan Tedder track) by Greg Kurstin (Adele, Beck, Foo Fighters).

153,000 Egypt Station sold 153,000 total copies, including 147,000 traditional copies, in its debut week to give McCartney his first solo Number One album since 1982's Tug of War.

Between that somewhat popular band from Liverpool, the Beatles, and his solo career, McCartney has sold more than 100 million albums and 100 million singles. He has 60 gold albums, all over the world.

60 gold discs McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles in the UK.

On the inspiration for the album's title and theme, McCartney said: "I liked the words 'Egypt Station. ' It reminded me of the 'album' albums we used to make. 'Egypt Station' starts off at the station on the first song, and then each song is like a different station.

Youssef Chahine Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom.

The Liverpool-born ex-Beatle has achieved an incredible 22 Number 1s across his career, including collaborations with wife Linda, his band Wings, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, the Frog Chorus and Rihanna/Kanye West.

250 million or more records

Wonderful Christmastime Paul McCartney: 'Wonderful Christmastime' (1979)

Wonderful Christmastime Paul McCartney: 'Wonderful Christmastime' (1979)

The Golden Beatles The Beatles earn their first Gold Album Award for "Meet The Beatles!" (Capitol Records). More than 50 years later, the band is the most-awarded band in Gold & Platinum Program history. The Beatles have tallied 178 million cumulative album certifications, spanning 48 separate albums.

Those films were typically similar to those of Hollywood studio classics with the glitz and glamour and happy endings. Chahine's very early work fit this mold to a tee, but “Cairo Station” was so starkly different that the film was even banned in Egypt due to its themes of taboo psychosexual behaviors.

A Cairo newspaper dealer becomes dangerously fixated on a lemonade seller while a serial killer terrorises the city.Cairo Station / Film synopsis

Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom.

"Silly Love Songs" (1976) Written as a response to the notion that he could only write silly little love songs, McCartney took what his critics had said and turned it into a No. 1-charting pop hit. In fact, "Silly Love Songs" became the top song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the year 1976.

1. “ “Maybe I'm Amazed” is quite simply Paul McCartney's biggest hit. Despite the fact that it was never released as a single until Wings' grand live cover, it remains the jewel of his solo catalog.