McCartney slams former label EMI

Paul McCartney has criticised his former record label EMI for its predictable approach to marketing music.

He has claimed that the label's response to his music was formulaic and that it didn't share his outlook on releasing records quickly.

The former Beatle said he left because "everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture".

He told The Times: "I'd be a couch; Coldplay are an armchair. Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was."

Talking about the label's approach to marketing his music, he said: "I could guess what they were going to say. ‘Love your record, Paul.' And I'd say, 'Well what should we do with it?'

"Then they'd go: 'Well, we think you ought to go to Cologne,' which is what they always say.

"You go somewhere, speak to a million journalists for one day and you get all the same questions. So I started saying, 'God, we've got to do something else'."

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