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BEATLES legend SIR PAUL McCARTNEY has relied on "instinct" to write every one of his songs, insisting there’s no formula behind his hundreds of hi t tracks.
McCartney is always amused when music scholars try to break down the tr acks he composed with late partner John Lennon and his solo efforts, beca use he has no idea where they came from.
The singer-songwriter says, "I=E2=80=99m still intoxicated by the fact I can do it. If I were to try and answer how I do it, I couldn=E2=80=99t.
"I saw a guy on TV dissecting Penny Lane. He said, =E2=80=98McCartney s tarts off in this key and then he modulates down to sing higher=E2=80=99.
I=E2=80=99m going, =E2=80=98Did I? Brilliant, well done, lad!=E2=80=99 I t=E2=80=99s all instinct. I just sort of do it." McCartney is still writing new material at the age of 67 and admits he’ s driven to carry on by his insatiable desire to try and better himself, adding, "Most artists I know feel like they have something to prove. That =E2=80=99s what keeps you going, that sense you can do it better. I mean, I remember not really liking the vocal on Eleanor Rigby, thinking I hadn =E2=80=99t nailed it.
"I listen to it now =E2=80=93 and it=E2=80=99s very good. It=E2=80=99s a bit annoying when you do Eleanor Rigby and you=E2=80=99re not happy wit h it."

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Country music legend ALAN JACKSON is raising money for the families of th e West Virginia miners killed in a tragic explosion earlier this month (A pr10), by performing at an upcoming charity concert.
The singer will donate profits from a 22 May (10) performance at the Ch arleston Civic Center to support the families of the 29 men who died in t he 5 April (10) blast at Massey Energy’s mine in Montcoal - the worst coa l mining disaster in 40 years.
Ticket prices have been cut to as little as $20 (GBP13) to encourage at tendance.
Proceeds will go to the Montcoal Mining Disaster Fund, run by the West Virginia Council of Churches.

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JOHN LENNON’s handwritten lyrics for the BEATLES song A DAY IN THE LIFE a re expected to sell for as much as $700,000 (GBP437,000) when they go und er the hammer in New York in June (10).
The lyrics appear on a double-sided sheet of paper, which includes corr ections and amendments made in red ink.
A Day in the Life is the final track on the band’s 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s L onely Hearts Club Band album and recently came 26th in Rolling Stone Maga zine’s 500 greatest songs of all time poll.
Lennon’s writings aren’t expected to break the record for Beatles lyric s, set by All You Need Is Love, which fetched $1 million (GBP625,000) in 2005.

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KEVIN SMITH is to follow in the footsteps of directors JOHN WATERS and GU Y MADDIN - he will be handed the prestigious Filmmaker on the Edge Award at this year’s (10) Provincetown Film Festival.
Smith will accept the honour - handed out since 1999 for a boundary-pus hing body of work - during the event, which runs 16-20 June (10) in Provi ncetown, Massachusetts.
The Clerks filmmaker isn’t the only A-list name to be honoured at the f estival - actress Tilda Swinton will receive an accolade for excellence i n acting, and directing duo Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will be give n the Faith Hubley Memorial Award, last handed out in 2008 to actress Jan e Lynch.
The festival’s executive director Gabby Hanna says: "We are thrilled wi th these four award recipients. They each represent the spirit and artist ic voice of what independent filmmaking is today."

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Engaged KRISTEN BELL and DAX SHEPARD don’t want to wait until they’re mar ried before they start a family together - the couple is=20 reportedly building a nursery in their Los Angeles home.
Shepard proposed to the Heroes actress over the 2009 holiday season, af ter two years of dating.
According to U.S. magazine OK!, the pair recently hired celebrity inter ior decorator Kari Whitman to redo their home and turn one bedroom into a nursery, ahead of the Hollywood wedding.
A source says, "She’s planning ahead a bit. But it won’t be long. They talk about starting a family all the time."

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BROOKE SHIELDS thought she had suffered a broken nose on the set of new m ovie FURRY VENGEANCE - after she was hit by a prop made out of ground mea t during a wacky comedic scene gone wrong.
Shields teams up with Brendan Fraser to battle a gang of wild animals i n the new comedy.
But the actress wasn’t laughing when a heavy prop made out of meat smac ked her in the face.
She tells People magazine, "They made a bunny out of ground meat, but a t first they didn’t want to throw that one at me, so they made a fake one out of Styrofoam. It only kissed my face, so I said, ‘Throw the real one at me!’ It hit me so hard that I was on the ground going, ‘Oh no, I’ve b roken my nose!’"

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LINDSAY LOHAN has hit back at her estranged father’s accusation she’s a b ad influence on her younger sister ALI - insisting the teen is "fine" and "in school".
The Mean Girls actress has been embroiled in a war of words with Michae l Lohan since he attempted to stage an intervention at the her Hollywood home in front of 16-year-old Ali last week (22Apr10), claiming his eldest daughter is hooked on prescription drugs.
The patriarch went public with his concerns for his daughters after his failed intervention, alleging Lindsay was recovering from a heavy night out when he showed up at her apartment unannounced - and the home was a m ess.
He claimed his prime reason for the raid was to check on the welfare of his youngest daughter, who is living with her sister.
But the actress has blasted the claims in a candid interview on Los Ang eles radio station 102.7 KIIS-FM, branding her father’s remarks "just fou l".
And she insists she’s not a negative influence on Ali - she’s just havi ng fun like any other 23 year old would.
She added: "My sister is fine and she is in school… (It’s) not a crim e to go and have fun with your friends."

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Former porn star JENNA JAMESON has withdrawn the allegations against her boyfriend TITO ORTIZ that led to his arrest on felony domestic violence c harges earlier this week (26Apr10).
Jameson claimed the mixed martial arts champion attacked her after she said "something very hurtful to his ego" following his arrest at the coup le’s California home on Monday.
Ortiz claimed he confronted her because he believed she was high on pai nkiller OxyContin and harboured a secret prescription drug addiction. Jam eson passed a drug test on Tuesday (27Apr10).
Ortiz’ lawyer has dismissed the incident as "a big misunderstanding". A nd Jameson has moved forward with plans to reconcile with Ortiz by withdr awing her accusations.
She tells TMZ.com, "What actually happened has now been dramatically di storted and misinterpreted and remarks that both Tito and I made after th e police arrived reflect the state of shock that we were both in." (JMA/W

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Rapper 50 CENT is convinced politicians won’t launch a crackdown on illeg al downloading until Hollywood studios begin to experience losses at the box office.
The hip-hop star fears the music industry needs new laws to regulate co ntent which is available on the internet - because so many artists are lo sing money from illicit file-sharing.
But the In Da Club hitmaker is adamant the situation won’t change until it begins to affect the movie industry - and powerful film chiefs realis e their pictures are being illegally accessed online.
He tells MTV news, "I don’t think the music business is dying. I think we’re just experiencing technology and we just have to pass new laws, eve ntually, to change how music is being distributed. It’s just about redeve loping what the music business is. It’s easier to download a song that’s three minutes long, probably about three or four seconds for you to downl oad it, it’s easier to steal.
"When you got your blockbuster film doing $120 million in a weekend, an d then (another) blockbuster film that they spent $120 million (on) comes out and nobody goes to see (it) but everybody watched it because they co uld pull it off their computer and see it on HD at home on a theatre - th ey’ll change those laws."

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A Paris concert which was set to feature MIKA and CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG ha s reportedly been axed by France’s First Lady CARLA BRUNI.
Organisers were said to have secured the singers, as well as rock bands Phoenix and Vampire Weekend, to play the first open-air gig in the court yard of the city’s famed Louvre art gallery.
But Bruni has cancelled the event, fearing the show would distract from another concert raising money for AIDS charities, which will be held lat er that same month (Jun10) in the French capital, according to the countr y’s Le Canard Enchaine newspaper.
Bruni, who is married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, is an offici al AIDS ambassador for the United Nations.

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A representative for MICKEY ROURKE has dismissed rumours the actor hates working with GWYNETH PALTROW - insisting he holds his IRON MAN 2 co-star in the "highest regard".
The Wrestler actor sent online gossips into a spin after describing one of his work colleagues as "a pain in the a**" on set.
He told MovieHole.net, "I worked with an actress recently who, despite having a reputation as a good actress, s**ts herself when that little red light comes on.
"She’s fooled everyone into thinking she’s a lot better than she is. Wo rking with someone like that is a pain in the a**." Rourke was reported to have aimed his rant at Paltrow after a post on T witter.com, purportedly from the actor, named the Oscar-winner.
But a representative for the star has confirmed the Twitter account in question does not belong to the real Mickey Rourke, who has a lot of resp ect for Paltrow.
The spokesperson tells GossipCop.com, "(Rourke) does not have a Twitter account (and he) holds Gwyneth in the highest regard."

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The TITANIC theme MY HEART WILL GO ON has been named the best film song o f all time, according to a new poll.
Celine Dion’s ballad, which won the Best Original Song Oscar in 1997, s aw off competition from Rule The World by British pop stars Take That, wh ich was was used in 2007 adventure movie Stardust.
Aerosmith’s I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing, featured in 1998’s Armageddon, came third in the survey, decided by listeners of U.K
. radio station Magi c.
Three songs from Dirty Dancing made the list - Bill Medley and Jennife r Warnes’ Time of My Life was at four, while Patrick Swayze’s She’s Like The Wind and Eric Carmen’s Hungry Eyes also landed in the top 40.
The top 10 is as follows:
1. Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On, Titanic
2. Take That - Rule The World, Stardust
3. Aerosmith - I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing, Armageddon
4. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - Time Of My Life, Dirty Dancing
5. Sir Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight, The Lion King
6. Sir Elton John - Circle Of Life, The Lion King
7. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You, The Bodyguard
8. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights, Grease
9. Leona Lewis - I See You, Avatar
10. Faith Hill - There You’ll Be, Pearl Harbor
.

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DAMON ALBARN recorded enough material to make three GORILLAZ albums while working on their latest offering PLASTIC BEACH - and he’s considering tu rning the spare songs into a series of follow-ups.
The former Blur frontman created the cartoon group with his longtime pa l Jamie Hewlett and they recently released their third album, which debut ed at number two on the U.S. Billboard Chart.
And Albarn admits the music on Plastic Beach is only a fraction of what they recorded for the album.
He tells NME.com, "I recorded an awful lot of music for this record, ab out 80 pieces of music in total. So, theoretically there is a part two an d part three of Plastic Beach if we ever felt motivated to spend another few years finishing it."

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NICK JONAS has found a new love interest - he’s romancing his JONAS co-st ar NICOLE ANDERSON according to tabloid reports.
Anderson plays a groupie on the hit U.S. TV series, but in real life sh e’s won the affection of the 17 year old heart-throb, according to U.S. m agazine Us Weekly.
A source says, "It hasn’t really been a secret on set. It’s sweet." Jonas has previously dated fellow Disney stars Miley Cyrus and Selena G omez.

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WYCLEF JEAN has dismissed rumours he plans to run for office in Haiti, in sisting he can do more for his country without taking up the post of pres ident.
The former Fugees star has spearheaded relief efforts in his homeland f ollowing the massive earthquake which devastated the country in January ( 10), leaving an estimated 1.3 million people homeless.
He has continued to provide aid for survivors through his Yele Haiti fo undation, which is currently working to build temporary shelters.
Jean’s dedication and service has prompted many to call for him to step into politics, but he has shrugged off the idea.
He tells the Associated Press, "If I take a job being a president, I ca n’t do as much as I’m doing for my country." Jean insists the nation needs better leadership, but refuses to add to criticism of incumbent President Rene Preval.
He adds, "I can’t criticise President Preval. He did what he could with what he had in his hands. It’s always debatable: Could he have done more ? Said more?" Preval came under fire after he was rarely seen in public in the days a fter the tremor.

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JOHN BONHAM’s son is preparing to take LED ZEPPELIN on the road - the mus ician is launching a concert tour which will tell the story of the iconic band.
The drum legend’s son Jason took his late father’s place when the Rock and Roll hitmakers reformed for a one-off gig in London in 2007, and alth ough rumours of a reunion tour were rife after the concert, the band fail ed to strike a deal to go back on the road.
Now Bonham is heading out on his own to bring the Led Zeppelin story to life - he will perform a multi-media show with a group of other professi onal musicians while video screens show footage of the band’s musical jou rney.
The tour, titled Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience, is set to hit North America later this year (10).

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LADY GAGA has been named the world’s most influential artist in a new pol l by America’s Time magazine.
The singer saw off competition from TV titan Oprah Winfrey and Oscar-wi nning director Kathryn Bigelow to take the top spot in the list of 25 sta rs, which is part of the publication’s 2010 Time 100 compilation.
Gaga’s inclusion features a tribute from fellow pop star Cyndi Lauper, who calls the Poker Face hitmaker’s lyrics "incredibly literary" and "sop histicated", and describes her "admiration" for the 24 year old.
Lauper writes, "When I see someone like Gaga, I sit back in admiration.
… She isn’t a pop act, she is a performance artist. She herself is the a rt." TV funnyman Conan O’Brien is second on the list, followed by Kathryn Bi gelow in third place and Winfrey at four.
Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson makes an appearance at number six and yo ung country star Taylor Swift is at nine, while Glee star Lea Michele is a surprise entry at number 13 - above music mogul Simon Cowell and Sir El ton John.

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MARY MARY star ERICA CAMPBELL is a new mum after giving birth to a baby b oy.
The Grammy-winning singer and her music producer husband Warryn Campbel l welcomed little Warryn Campbell III on Sunday (24Apr10) - born just fou r days before his mum’s birthday.
The proud parents also have a five-year-old daughter named Krista. (PAW

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