The Beatles legend, Sir Paul McCartney, has slammed his former record company EMI, calling it “boring”. McCartney ended his 45-year-old relationship with the label in June and signed on with Starbucks’ label Hear Music, reports ananova.com.

Explaining his reasons for not renewing the EMI contract, he said, “Everybody at EMI had become part of the furniture. I’d be a couch, Coldplay are an armchair. Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was.”

The Memory Almost Full singer claims EMI had become “mind-numbingly predictable”.He explained, “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 should go to Cologne’, which is what they always say.

“This idea became symbolic of the treadmill. It’s mind-numbing. So I started saying, ‘God, we’ve got to do something else.’” Paul, who became the first act to sign to coffee chain Starbuck’s new record label, claims tearful Starbucks record
executives won him over.
He said, “One of my new songs You tell Me came on and one of the team started crying. It was weird. I thought, Oh this is real feedback.’”