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found out. The release suggested to me that my name didn't need to be on things - but then, it wasn't as big a hit as some of their other singles so it sort of proved a point. I quite like the song, actually. People say to me now, "Is that song really yours?" because it doesn't sound like one of mine.

            In America the credit was B Webb-A Smith.
            I don't know why that is - it may have been a contractual thing, or John might have caught onto the joke and taken a pseudonym too.

            Were you CLINT HARRIGAN, who wrote the sleevenote for Wings Wild Life?
            Yes. I like sleevenotes, especially Derek Taylor's sleevenotes - I like something to read when I'm listening. You see, I come from the time when you used to buy a record and then have a half-hour bus journey home, and so it was always very important to have a note. The Sgt Pepper sleeve was packed with stuff for that very reason. Every album had sleevenotes once, and then suddenly everyone stopped having them, especially in the early 1970s. So I decided to re-invent them: for Wings Wild Life I drew that little cartoon and wrote some words.

            Like "Can you dig it?"
            Yes, even "Can you dig it?"! Then I thought, I can't just sign it Paul McCartney, having written about how great the group is, so I made up the name Clint Harrigan. It was the easiest way of doing it, to put someone else's name there, do a little cartoon and put it out.

            And then Clint re-surfaced some years later writing an MPL press release.
            That's right. You can always tell it something is mine because it's badly written! I've got a definite schoolboy writing style. I remember when I was in hospital once, aged 11, I did this pretty good essay about something and then totally blew it at the end by saying "So if you're ever there, remember to go along and pay a visit!" - it suddenly became a travelogue. I always think back to that, even now, when I've got to write anything. There's something incomplete about the way I write prose. I always stick in some terrible little line that's a dead giveaway, but I'm working on it.















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