On the weird side of things, from Paul McCartney Latest News 1996 – June 1997 (): The Beatles: Off The Record 2 – The Dream is Over: Dream Is Over Vol 2 In fact, I still haven’t done the guitar as much as she wanted. Don’t just get someone in to play it.’ It’s a little naive my guitar style it’s not amazingly technical. So when it came to this album, Linda said, ‘Really play guitar. When Linda and I first met, she’d say, ‘I didn’t know you played heavy guitar like that, I love that.’ But I’ve always done quite a bit of that for myself. There’s a bit more of my heavier guitar on this album. It’s got a bit of a tougher guitar riff on it. Of the 14 songs on Flaming Pie, only the title track, ‘Somedays’ and ‘Great Day’ were composed in England.Ĭlub Sandwich No 82 Summer 1997 Shop on Amazon ‘The World Tonight’ was written by Paul while on holiday in America in 1995. (Again, showing every indication of ardent support, Paul and Linda drove for six hours to see Young’s performance at the Phoenix Festival near Stratford-upon-Avon on 19 July 1996.) For the record, now that it’s done, Linda still believes her husband “could have wound up a couple more solos on this album”. Linda McCartney encouraged Paul to work his edgier, tougher, lead guitar work into Flaming Pie, an attribute he has tended to fight shy from over the years, but which remains a potent force, inspired by Jimi Hendrix – whom, like a fan, Paul followed, awe-struck, around the London clubs in the American’s startling spring of 1967 – and also by Neil Young. Mark Lewisohn, in Club Sandwich n☈2, Summer 1997: My studio manager, Eddie, usually expects me to bring home a couple of cassettes from a holiday. I don’t “go to work” to write songs, they just come when the mood strikes me and that’s usually when I’m on holiday, perhaps after a sail or a swim, when I’m chilling out and relaxing with a piano or a guitar. This one was written on an acoustic guitar when I was on holiday, so it started out folk-y. Paul McCartney, in Club Sandwich n☈2, Summer 1997: Paul McCartney, from the “Flaming Pie” EPK It’s just a stream-of-consciousness thing. I just had an idea for the opening verse, which just said “I saw you sitting at the center of the circle”. “The World Tonight” was one of those songs you just start with no particular inspiration. Paul McCartney, from the liner notes of “Flaming Pie” Like ‘I go back so far, I’m in front of me’- I don’t know where that came from, but if I’d been writing with John he would have gone ‘OK, leave that one in we don’t know what it means but we do know what it means’. ‘ The World Tonight’ was written while on vacation in America in 1995 – of the 14 songs on Flaming Pie only the title track, ‘ Somedays’ and ‘ Great Day’ were composed in England, for the muse tends to strike Paul most often while he’s on holiday. The second song from Paul’s initial session (there were four in all) with Jeff Lynne took what had been an acoustic, folk-tinged demo and imbued it with a progressively heavier treatment. “ The World Tonight” is the second track of the 1997 album “ Flaming Pie“.
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