Paul McCartney Slams 'Boring' EMI Records

Sir Paul McCartney has described his former record label EMI as “boring” during an attack on their approach to the music industry.

McCartney ended his 45-year relationship with the label in June before proceeding to sign a new deal with Starbucks’, Hear Music.

Explaining the reasons behind his departure in an interview with the Times, the former Beatle said that “everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture.

“I'd be a couch; Coldplay are an armchair. Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was," he said.

"I could guess what they were going to say. ‘Love your record, Paul.' And I'd say, 'Well what should we do with it?'

"Then they'd go: 'Well, we think you ought to go to Cologne,' which is what they always say," he continued.

"You go somewhere, speak to a million journalists for one day and you get all the same questions. So I started saying, 'God, we've got to do something else.'"

McCartney, who released his latest solo album ‘Memory Almost Full’ with Hear Music shortly after his departure from EMI, said that label didn’t share his desire to release his new material quickly, telling him it would take at least six months.

To which he replied: "Couldn't some bright people do that in two days? Look boys, I'm sorry, I'm digging a new furrow."