Famous Groupies - Double Entendre (2020)

“Famous Groupies creator Kirkcaldy McKenzie, a young Scottish multi-instrumentalist musician, talks about how he got the idea for this album. He is a fan of the Beatles music and Paul McCartney in particular, listening to it since childhood, because his parents were fans of this music.
Already at a conscious age, he fell into the hands of the old things of his grandfather Patrick McKenzie, who was a session musician in Scotland in the 60-70s of the last century. Among this legacy were demos of several songs recorded by his grandfather under the obvious influence of the work of McCartney and Wings on an old tape recorder in the first half of the 70s. The notes were in poor condition, some were just ideas, sketches, and drafts for myself. The younger McKenzie began to work with them, trying to combine them into successive pieces, adding missing notes and lyrics somewhere, trying to preserve the aura and style of the time when they were created. The result was an album called Rehearsing The Multiverse.
The fact that the author is a fan of McCartney is evident not only from the name of the group (in honor of one of the most eccentric songs of Sir Paul), but also the design of the disc cover, which refers us to the album Red Rose Speedway (and there is an apple instead of a rose for a reason) ... But it would be a mistake to classify the disc as a parody album, like another The Rutles album, or just a clear imitation of Paul McCartney's style. No, the musical material is original melodies created by someone who was close to Paul McCartney in the 1970s and absorbed these ideas.
This is not the end of the story told by Kirkcaldy McKenzie. Along with the unfinished songs, he discovered several more photographs, where his grandfather Patrick McKenzie was captured together with Paul McCartney, the Wings musicians, and Linda McCartney acted as a photographer. This whole story about grandfather makes you wonder: did Paul help him with any of these songs? Or, even more intriguingly, did Patrick help Paul?
The album was released just in time for the 50th anniversary of Paul McCartney's first release after the Beatles split. It's hard to know who the real creators are - Patrick McKenzie, Kirkeldy McKenzie or the Famous Groupies, who ended up together re-creating their favorite tunes of the early 1970s so that they are both fresh and melodic and still modern. Let's hope that the entire archive of MacKenzie Sr. is not yet dismantled by his grandson, and an exciting continuation awaits us ... "