A new Paul McCartney song, ‘Hope For The Future’, has emerged on YouTube.
The song, which will be released as a single, is taken from the soundtrack of the video game Destiny, made by Bungie and Activision. McCartney co-wrote the score for the first-person shooter, working with Bungie’s in-house composer Marty O’Donnell, and Mike Salvatori.
Hope For The Future was recorded with a 120-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios, London. The orchestra was directed by Giles Martin, and the song was produced by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.
He contributed orchestral elements to the game. We have a team of composers here in the building who actually score the game to the action, so they put in a lot of work. We don’t want to dismiss those guys. But Paul contributing to the soundtrack is amazing. And he wrote a new single for the game as well.There was no check involved, big or otherwise. He’s in it for the creativity. He got a wonderful opportunity to reach an audience that wouldn’t typically be immersed in Paul McCartney. They might hear the name — of course he’s everywhere, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, obviously he’s touring and recording nonstop — but he sees it as a way to reach a new audience that might not otherwise hear his music.
Community manager, Bungie
Great way for the next generation to hear about the ex Beatle!
Beautiful Song which is perfect for the game. Remember it is written for a specific game and does the job perfectly. This man McCartney is like an energizer Bunny that keeps going and going when all others have died out or are sitting in the sun laughing and never doing any concerts for the fans. Paul is a true performer, the only one in the Beatles or any other group from the British invasion that truly is a rock legend, Musical legend and master of live performances. I can barely bend down at half his age. Truly unbelievable that he does shows live and when you see him live at his age you get the idea why he was always pushing the Beatles to play live while the rest just wanted to sit back and only record in the studio. Playing live and sounding great is extremely hard to do compared to recording in the studio with many takes and different slices of good parts put together with over dubbing the song. Live is live man
awesome
Great song, McCartney never rests!
Why no CD release? Most of his long time fans will be in their 50s or 60s and don’t do downloads. So, if you don’t have a MP3 player, you can’t buy the song. Something very seriously wrong there. He’s losing out on potentially thousands and thousands of buyers.
Yeh give us old gits a CD release your old fans have been around a long time as well.