COMING UP (1980)
It is astonishing to think that the same man wrote this song and Mull Of Kintyre, and only a couple of years apart. Coming Up found McCartney starting the Eighties in modernist fashion, making a record attuned to the synth-futurist leanings of a generation reared on The Beatles but eager to displace them. He cut the song on his farm in Scotland, beginning with a drum track then adding guitars and bass, and he let his inner nutty professor assume control. “You get so into yourself it’s weird, crazy,” he said of the process. “But I liked it.”
