Get Out Of My Way

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“Get Out Of My Way” is a track from 1993 album “Off The Ground“. From Club Sandwich 65:

That was really an attempt at writing a straightforward rock and roll song. A lot of people will tell you that they’re often the hardest songs to write, even though they sound very simple. To get them to sound authentic is difficult. So I just put the character in a car and he’s basically talking to the blues – saying “get out of my way, don’t tell me what to do, I know what’s happening, I’m going to see my woman tonight”. So it’s a kind of rock and roll love song. 

Paul McCartney

From the “New World Tour” tour book:

PAUL: That’s a trucking song, I’m gonna see my girl, get outta my way.

ROBBIE McINTOSH: The big thing about the album for me was that nearly everything I did was done live on the backing track — and the band wouldn’t let me change it! On Get Out Of My Way I did a guitar solo when we were bashing through it which I thought was only all right, so I had another couple of cracks at it and they all said, Naah, leave it. So it’s the original on the record.

PAUL WIX WICKENS: “I was locked in the box for that one, playing rock’n’roll on the Magic Piano, the painted one, beside the toilet. They built an acoustic box round me to stop sound spill. Good fun.

Last updated on June 10, 2019

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