Paul McCartney, Memory Almost Full
McCartney is going through a contentious separation, but if you think the king of good cheer has written his ''divorce album,'' you don't know Macca. He does spend much of this album — the first to be released on Starbucks' Hear Music label — taking stock of his long life, but in a celebratory rather than rueful way. Release date: 6/5

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