McCartney 'wanted to join Grohl supergroup'

Paul McCartney has revealed that he wanted to join Dave Grohl's supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.

The former Beatles star admitted that he asked Grohl when the pair attended dinner after the Grammy's last February, but bass player John Paul Jones had already been recruited.

"We went out for a bite to eat afterwards and Dave told me he was starting this band with Josh [Homme]," he told the Daily Mail.

"I asked him who was playing bass and he rather sheepishly told me he'd approached John. So you read it here first; Paul McCartney was nearly the bass player in Them Crooked Vultures."

Them Crooked Vultures recently confirmed that they have started work on their second album.