Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ

whatever you know, it's always nice, let it be, Hi Jude, so I hope this is a good message. I especially like that and sometimes, sometimes you're writing

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, I'll think there are people out there. that they were going through some issues and hopefully people will listen to it and think, oh yeah, it's not just me going through this. You know, this is something and also something I can fix. It was another song of my dreams. In fact, he had been exaggerating. You know it's him. 60's and we were going crazy and stuff

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of the time so I went to bed and I didn't feel very good inside myself and in the dream my mother came into me and died maybe 10 years before. and then when someone you've lost comes back to you in a dream, it's a miraculous moment, you know it because you're with them and your mind isn't telling you wait a minute, you shouldn't be here, just with them, etc.

It was really nice, you know, because my mom was really excited and she seemed to realize that all this was going on in my mind, of course, but you know, forget that she seemed to realize that I was going through difficulties and she said everything will be fine. good. everything is really going to be okay, she said just let it be. I would feel great and I woke up to her. I remember the dreams of what she said, let it be, and then I sat at the piano and wrote the song that she had. a lot of emotion because of who said it and my situation, so that translated into the album and I think that's why a lot of people like it, they feel in some way that that kind of magic comes out. sometimes you just sit at the piano and sometimes there's no piano so you play the guitar, it's not like a formula it's just whatever you feel like at that moment and that particular song there was a piano in my room so I just I wrote on the piano and it's still a piano song when I play it live.

It's a piano song. Those times after 60 were pretty high and you know a lot of people were doing drugs, so to me it's like a fantasy song. Hi girl. Come on, let's get high now. I have to admit it might be a little embarrassing because I have grandkids and he's gone. Yes, so when in life will we do it? Somehow, we're going to get high on life. Disclaimer, you know, but at that point. it was just about the period and a multicolored band and it's a period piece but it fits well and one of my lads called me up and said hey you know this we've got a problem oh the BBC just banned hi , Hello.

They don't put it, why not? Well, it's drug related and they're pretty strict. You know, one of my two band albums. You know, I can see why and if I say that I read it after John died, there had been a lot of talk about who did what and who liked who argued with the Beatles and I was al

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accepting the idea that John and I was fighting all the time, but I remembered that it wasn't true, so I wrote this song about you know, if you were here, you could say this or that, but I know better, I know, I remember well some of the things we did, really It was for me, thinking about John and just thinking, you know what we had, we had a great relationship. and like in any family, there are always arguments, there are always disputes, but in the end you know that we love each other and I wanted to do it.

I wanted to do a song where I said "I love you too", John, and that was that song again, it's quite emotional. you know, because it came from a real feeling for him and I wanted to correct the record in my mind as much as anyone else's mind and there are some photos from that period that are really beautiful and it's just me and him working and you. I can see that we love each other, so, but you know, when she wants, all these rumors are about you, almost playing with them anyway, so that song, can I help set the record straight?

I was in Excel writing moved and I was in Scotland. I thought he was fine, I just had to go somewhere and try to write a song and it turns out we had a little pony called Jet on the farm. I was on a farm in Scotland and I actually took my guitar and walked up this big hill. to find myself a place there that's in the middle of nature and be a satyr and I just started making up a song, you know, it's not one of those

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that even when I sing it now I don't know what all the words were in I know from where jet came from and I like the name the words I cut probably about me and my father in law you know the first few days of getting married and when your father in law is kind of a pain in the ass and Hey, then he's probably the main one but you know it's just a song , so you work, you figure things out.

That one was written halfway up a mountain in Scotland and then recorded in Nigeria. Yeah, I was wondering where to record. and I wanted to get out of England, so I asked my record label which one would give me a list of all the studios they had around the world. I knew they had many and one was in China and the other in Rio de Janeiro. I was in Lagos, Nigeria, so our yes, later, because I really like African music, I love the rhythms of African music, so I chose that not realizing that it would be a really basic little studio and we built half of it. from the study they did.

You don't have a vocal booth, you're going to go into the booth to isolate your voice, they didn't have one so we had to explain to them, you take some Ward and you do this, you take a glass and you put it like this. so we built the vocal booth, but it was pretty nice. I like the primitive look and being in Africa was quite an interesting experience if you put in three hours. I don't know, it's the one that opens the album and it's much more. more distraught again, you know, you sit down to write a song and you think, oh, I'm not going to write anything that's too sad or desperate, people are going to think I'm desperate, but you know people like that I like it.

So, I'm going to write something. You can often take a moment to remember where you had, let's say, an argument and you think about that situation and you resolve it in the song, so just by saying the first few lines. I've got crows at my window, dogs at my door, I don't think I can take it anymore, it makes you feel better and suddenly, oh, it's a song and you're turning it into a vehicle that somehow puts all those thoughts in there or all your problems and woes, so you work, you fix your things and the songs, one of the best things about writing songs, it's almost like therapy, you can come in a little angry or sad and you put all that in the song and somehow It makes it better because there are real feelings in it and when you finish the song you feel so much better.