McCARTNEY AIRS NEW SONG 'WRITTEN' WITH HARRISON #1798
Jul 26, 2005 Source: contactmusic.com


SIR PAUL McCARTNEY claims he wrote a song for his new album with the help of GEORGE HARRISON - even though his former BEATLES bandmate died from cancer in 2001.
The 63-year-old felt Harrison's presence with him when he pieced together WAITING FOR YOUR FRIENDS TO GO so strongly, he still doesn't feel like he wrote the track by himself.

McCartney says, "I just got this feeling, this is George. I was like George - writing one of his songs. It just wrote itself very easily because it wasn't even me writing it.

"I thought, OK, the 'waiting on the other side' is also a little bit loaded, it can be crossing the river Jordan or whatever, that sort of thing. There's a little bit of double meaning there.

"It was funny, particularly the second verse - 'I've been sliding down a slippy slope, I've been climbing up a slowly burning rope'. I just thought - it's a George song."

McCartney's new album CHAOS AND CREATION IN THE BACK YARD is scheduled for release this autumn (05). (September 12th)
[Edited 8/15/05 12:13pm]

the question is, does he "credit" george on the album?

Anxiety said:

I believe so.. that would be a trip woudln't it?


but i'm sure that cant be legally possible to document that.. but what the F would I know about that stuff
[Edited 8/15/05 12:20pm]

Sdldawn said:

you can write anything in the liner notes. they're completely meaningless. now, if he's registered as a writer at ASCAP or BMI (or the Library of Congress), that's another matter altogether. and the only place where it means anything.