Ram (also stylised as "RAM") is the only studio album credited to the husband-and-wife music duo Paul and Linda McCartney, and the former's second album post-Beatles. Released on 17 May 1971 by Apple Records, it was recorded in New York with guitarists David Spinozza and Hugh McCracken, and future Wings drummer Denny Seiwell.

Apr 18, 2023 · Despite much of the conversation surrounding the ill will that McCartney may or may not have imbued in Ram, the album contains many positive aspects that far outweigh the negatives. Perhaps the most heartfelt of these is the secret message that Paul included to Linda on the album’s front cover.

Jun 18, 2024 · RAM features a Linda McCartney portrait of Paul with a ram on their Scottish farm, while Paul has doodled a multi-colored, childlike frame with felt-tipped pens. In amongst the rainbow...

Jan 26, 2025 · After the acrimonious end of The Beatles, Paul McCartney quickly settled into life without them. On the front cover of 'Ram', he shared a message in plan sight.

Soft, hard, fast slow, silly serious, they’re all here. Beatle politics aside, Paul’s voice and musical abilities are in stellar form here and the writing is strong. A few loose jam bits and strum-alongs along with the much produced Uncle Albert.

Apr 16, 2021 · To celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Paul and Linda McCartney’s 1971 masterpiece RAM, the album will be reissued May 14, 2021 as a limited edition half-speed mastered vinyl pressing via UMe.

May 17, 2021 · Join us now as we rumble through some of the coolest Ram covers currently on offer. Within their ranks you will hear gender-flipped vocals, inventive new chord additions, shred-the blueprint reinventions, and a few faithful valentines. Best of all, you’ll feel the palpable love for Ram in every single one of them.

Jul 7, 2011 · Ram was Paul McCartney’s second post-Beatles album, and was intended to contrast the homemade feel of his debut album, McCartney. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles, it featured a range of session musicians including future Wings drummer Denny Seiwell.

Aug 19, 2022 · Ram is the second studio album by Paul McCartney, released in May 1971 on Apple Records along with Linda McCartney. The album was recorded amid Paul McCartney’s legal action in Britain’s High Court to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership, following their …

Feb 20, 2024 · Writing about the US singer-songwriter’s third album Either/ Or for The Observer, Ron Hart identified “a sweet, scraggly variation of the kind of intimacy Paul McCartney leaned toward on McCartney and Ram”.