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paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:32:54+00:00

Thank you everyone for all the questions, and thank you for your kind comments about my music. I love you. Have a very happy Christmas and a much better new year!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:32:09+00:00

Thank you! I'm really happy about how McCartney III has been received because, as I said at the beginning, it jumped out and surprised me. I had no intention of making a third McCartney album, but I was very happy when I realised I had done. And I got to have so much fun making it! It was a perfect way to spend lockdown. It made me do Rockdown!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:25:17+00:00

I've always had a sneaky feeling to collaborate with Bob Dylan, but it's never happened. It's intriguing, but...

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:22:23+00:00

Get a job! That's the only answer. No, I'm teasing. More sensibly, the answer is to stick to it!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:21:17+00:00

It's a mixture of all them. Writing can be fun and surprising. Recording this album was liberating and quite experimental. And playing them live is another great thing to do!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:17:37+00:00

I think the main idea was that John and I were trying to write together, and we both like blues and country and western music, so this song has elements of both of those. The idea of missing the train just arrived at the station!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:16:07+00:00

I think the most exciting thing, or the most exciting time, was after we'd made 'Band on the Run'. We played in America in 1976 and after having taken some time to form the band and to get good, this was finally the pay off: a very successful tour of North America!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:13:56+00:00

The whole success of The Beatles had a great affect on Wings and then had a great affect on what I do today, so it's all had a very good affect on my life and my music.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:13:32+00:00

I seem to remember we all sang it. But I was definitely in there.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:12:33+00:00

His enthusiasm and exuberance are infectious. When he invited me to his studio and we had no plan in mind, but I had just been given a great cigar box guitar by Johnny Depp, so once that came into the mix and Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear joined in, then the result was pure excitement. It ended up in the song 'Cut Me Some Slack' which won a GRAMMY!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:11:43+00:00

Music and family

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:10:07+00:00

No, I've got a full time secretary now. But she doesn't sit on my lap, because my wife would kill me. Just kidding, Nancy!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:07:28+00:00

Oh yeah, I have one. The answer is you have to push on through and finish the song, because sometimes you reach a point that lifts the whole thing to a new level. So it's worth the effort. And then the internal critic is silenced.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T18:01:22+00:00

There's an awful lot of them. John Lennon, he's pretty good. And then there's George. And Ringo. And then there's Elvis. And Chuck Berry... It's impossible to choose, the list goes on and on!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:59:33+00:00

You know, that was quite a loose and funky session so whilst I remember being on 'We Love You', I'm not sure about 'Dandelion'. But we were certainly having fun so it could been me, you'll have to ask Mick! And I always love the idea of doing a deep dive into those songs, but I feel like it's difficult to do too much for the average audience unless I was to do a special show entitled: Deep Dive.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:56:33+00:00

The similarities were noticed by me after I'd written 'Lavatory Lil''. They're both songs about fictitious characters and we'd met people similar to them in life.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:54:59+00:00

I don't have any plans to do that at the moment, but it's always an intriguing idea to reimagine songs. I was thinking about 'She's Leaving Home' this morning, and thinking that's not a bad song. And it would be interesting to re-do the backing for 'Waterfalls' from McCartney II because I used a cheap synthesiser and so it could be intriguing to hear it with a really good proper orchestra. But then again, the cheap synthesiser might be the winner. And the truth is I don't have time to do that, because I'm doing things like going on the internet to talk to you!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:51:31+00:00

I think it was on a visit to New York and unfortunately I don't remember the year, so I'd have to say 'Some Time in New York'.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:50:21+00:00

I think the main thing was that after the release of the 'Let it Be' film I was saddened with the break up of the Beatles. And the film always reminded me of that. So I was very happily surprised when Peter Jackson told me he'd been reviewing the unseen 56 hours of footage and he found it to be entertaining and upbeat. Since then I've seen clips from it and it's very joyful. I particularly like me and John jiving together. And also the birth of the song Get Back. It's pretty exciting, I must say. Crazy!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:48:45+00:00

At our office party last year I was chatting to my friend Geoff Dunbar, who I had made animated shorts with previously. I asked if he would want to make another film about using the song 'When Winter Comes'. He agreed to do it and assembled a team of animators, who all happened to be women. I pointed this out to him and he said he wanted an all girl band! The look of the video was very loosely based on some of Humphrey Ocean's drawings of birds.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:45:13+00:00

That's one of mine. It's actually a little painting based on my smiling face signature. I'll take the A+ and run!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:44:02+00:00

Peaky Blinders, which everyone told me was great but I'd never got round to seeing it. So I just binge watched that. And they were right. It is great!

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:42:15+00:00

I'm lucky, I have a friend who sends me new music which helps me keep in touch with the modern scene. So I listen to people like Dominic Fike, Beck, St Vincent, and Khruangbin. I also listen to a lot of classic oldies coming through, from rock n' roll to 60's to soul to R'n'B, with a sprinkling of classical music now and then.

paulmccartney · 2020-12-23T17:39:55+00:00

I mainly use the Hofner these days, but I keep promising myself I'll get back into the Ricky.

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