“Lovely Linda”

“When the Studer 4-track was installed at home, this was the first song I recorded, to test the machine. On the first track was vocal and guitar, second track another acoustic guitar, then I overdubbed hand slaps on a book and finally bass. Written in Scotland, the song is a trailer to the full song which will be recorded in the future.” -McCartney 1970

“That was when Linda and I first got together. The record is me playing around the house. You hear her walking through the living room doorway out to the garden and the door squeaks at the end of the tape. That’s one of the songs from my personal experience, with “the flowers in her hair.” She often used to wear flowers in her hair, so it’s a direct diary. I was always going to finish it and I had another bit that went into a Spanish song, almost mariachi but it just appeared as a fragment and was quite nice for that reason. It opened the McCartney album, so it’s evocative of it now.” -McCartney 2001

“That Would Be Something” ao vivo no Unplugged da MTV (1991)

“That Would Be Something”

“This song was written in Scotland in 1969 and recorded at home in London – mixed later at EMI(No.2). I only had one mike, as the mixer and V.U. meters hadn’t arrived (still haven’t).” -McCartney 1970

“Recorded at home. Made up as I went along – acoustic guitar first, then drums (maybe drums were first). Anyway – electric guitar and bass were added and the track is all instrumental. Mixed at EMI. This one and Momma Miss America were ad-libbed with more concern for testing the machine than anything else.” -McCartney 1970

“Rock’n’roll Springtime – Take one!”

“An instrumental recorded completely at home. Made up as I went along – first a sequence of chords, then a melody on top. Piano, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar. Originally it was two pieces but they ran into each other by accident and became one.” -McCartney 1970

“Every Night” é demais.

“This came from the first two lines which I’ve had for a few years. They were added to in 1969 in Greece (Benitses) on holiday. This was recorded at EMI with” -McCartney 1970
1 vocal and
2 acoustic guitar
3 drums
4 bass
5 lead guitar (acoustic)
6 harmony to the lead guitar
7 double tracked vocal in parts
8 ? electric guitar (not used)

“A song written in about 1958 or 9 or maybe earlier when it was one of those songs that you play now and then. The middle was added in Morgan Studio where the track was recorded recently.” -McCartney 1970
1 acoustic guitar
2 electric guitar
3 drums
4 rhythm guitar
5 organ
6 maracas
7 bass
8 bongos

A faixa também foi gravada pelos Beatles, em tom jocoso, no meio das sessões do Let it Be.

Instrumental, “Hot as Sun” ainda foi usada nos anos 80 como música-tema do programa The All-New Popeye Hour, safra de desenhos do Popeye feita naquela década. Detalhe: a versão para TV era tocada em 45 RPM – e soava assim:

No finzinho, “Hot as Sun” virava a experimental “Glasses”:

“Wine glasses played at random and overdubbed on top of each other – the end is a section of a song called Suicide – not yet completed.” -McCartney 1970

E, no final, surgia um trecho minúsculo de uma canção que Paul fez aos 14 anos, chamada “Suicide” (já já falo mais dela).