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   CLUB SANDWICH 72

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THE PAUL MCCARTNEY INTERVIEW

This is your chance to interview Paul McCartney, we said. Send in your questions, we said. And you did, by the ton. In what is probably the greatest reader response in Club Sandwich’s glorious 18 year history, our office has been deluged with your postcards and envelopes. Sandwich editor Hark Lewisohn took along the questions to Paul, who generously set aside considerable time to answer them fully. And, as you'll read below, he was more than happy to discuss the topics that you won't read in any other McCartney interview. So thank you, one and all, for your marvellous response. We hope you enjoy the result. Club Sandwich 72

            Which solo album have you most enjoyed recording?
            from Stephen Lashe, Doncaster, England

            Probably the first one, McCartney, which was recorded on a four-track machine and was done in the living-room at home. Linda and I were newly-weds, and we had a baby, so we had that golden glow that you get in the first years of marriage. We still have it now, of course, but those first years are always special. Also, I felt a certain relief at not being tied into the Apple situation, because along with a regret about the break-up of the Beatles there was also a good side to it, which was the feeling of a new start... even if it was a little bit terrifying.
            So, putting McCartney together was probably the most fun. It was so intimate, it was just me, and, listening to it now, I think that I did stuff that I wouldn't normally have done. Some of the instrumentals I like a lot. They may not mean much - 'Momma Miss America' doesn't really add up to much - but I like them.
            The second most enjoyable album to make "was Band On The Run, but that was more traumatic because there were all sorts of problems in Lagos. But I still enjoyed the recording.

            You once mentioned having a blast recording 'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)'. Which other Beatles songs were especially fun to record, and why?
            from Lisa Photos, Madison, WI, USA

            A lot of them were fun - 'Hey Bulldog', most of Sgt Pepper, especially 'A Day In The Life', 'Hey Jude' and quite a few others.
            'Birthday' was very good because it was done in one evening. It was very spontaneous - John and I told everyone that we didn't know what we were going to record but we sat down in a corner, wrote some words, got some ideas and riffs and it all came together.

            In terms of atmosphere in the studio and relations within the band, what were the happiest and least happiest Beatles albums to record?
            from Andre Cesarro, Ottawa, Canada

            It's a good question but also a difficult one because time is a great healer, and looking back on the Beatles I tend to think that it was all great fun. And that's not whitewash, it's just the way that memory goes. You can have a terrible holiday, it might rain all the time, but years later if someone asks "Did you ever go to the south of France?" you would say "Oh yes, I had a great time...".
            So, relatively speaking, they were all great to record, and I wouldn't take one degree off any of them.
            But, to answer the question, Revolver and Rubber Soul were especially nice. It was still early days and we were coming good as an album band, so they felt very fresh. On the other hand, the "White Album" and Let It Be had to be the most difficult because the group was starting to break-up.
            I suppose what I'm saying is that the earliest were the best and the later ones weren't. But, as I say, I wouldn't take anything away from any of them, not even the "White Album" or Let It Be - I think they're great albums, it's just that they were just done during a tense time. But, who knows, that may make them better, because it's difficult to say what works in creativity.

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            Which post-Beatles song has taken the longest to record, and why?
            from Colin Hurst, Cheadle, England

            There hasn't been a real epic, but I suppose you could say that 'Ebony And Ivory' stretched over quite a long period. We started it off in Montserrat, with Stevie Wonder, and then had various sessions in England, without Stevie, to finish it off, including one at Strawberry Studios South, in Dorking. We spent a lot of time fixing and polishing the recording but it was worth it, not only because it was a good track but because it became Stevie s first number one single in Britain.

            Were the Beatles really singing "tit tit tit" in the song 'Cirl'?
            from Robin Warman, London, England

            In a word, yes!