McCARTNEY Plays for Children

PAUL McCARTNEY is to follow his triumph atGLASTONBURY with another psychedelic adventure.

But fear not, the

Beatles star"s new single and DVD will be aimed at children. September 20 sees the release of"Tropical Island Hum" - two decades after his last children"s hit,"We All Stand Together".

The tune will be the centrepiece to a new animated film of the same name, and will be sung by

McCartney and a chorus of animals.

Telling the story of one

Wirral the Squirrel, the new film will be collected on a new "DVD family package" entitled"Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection", released September 27.

Also featured on the package will be the original cartoon for

"Rupert and the Frog Song" alongside a new frog-based film, "Tuesday", a surreal adaptation of theDavid Weisner book in which frogs flying on lilypads take twilight flight into a small town somewhere in America.

All three shorts were directed by longtime collaborator

Geoff Dunbar.

McCartney himself said of the project: "I shouldn"t imagine that too many of the bands atGlastonbury would follow performing"Helter Skelter" by releasing a bunch of cartoons and a single for children, but it"s ringing the changes like that which keeps me interested in the possibilities of life.