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Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)
Officially appears on Band On The Run (UK version)
Officially appears on Back To The Egg
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Paul McCartney and Jane Asher on holiday in Switzerland
March 6 - March 20, 1966
A French road trip for Paul McCartney
November 06-12, 1966
Paul McCartney meets Mal Evans in Bordeaux and travels to Spain
November 12-14, 1966
Paul McCartney on holiday in Kenya
November 14-19, 1966
Paul McCartney and Mal Evans fly to San Francisco
April 03-04, 1967
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher’s Denver vacation
April 06-08, 1967
Paul McCartney and Mal Evans spend some time in Los Angeles
April 10-11, 1967
Paul McCartney and Mal Evans travel from Los Angeles to London
April 11-12, 1967
John Lennon and Paul McCartney travel to Greece
Jul 22, 1967
Paul McCartney spends time with Linda Eastman in Scotland
November 5 - Mid-November?
Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman on holiday in Portugal
December 11 - End of December, 1968
Paul and Linda McCartney spend three weeks in New York (and in Bahamas)
March 16 to early April, 1969
Paul and Linda McCartney on holiday in Provence and Corfu
May 15 - June 17, 1969
Paul and Linda McCartney on holiday in Antigua
Mid-December 1969
Paul and Linda McCartney on holiday in Jamaica
Early December 1971
Spanish holidays for the McCartney family, and Wings
Mid-June to June 25, 1972
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THERE’S still a chance that the Beatles will play together again, Paul McCartney said yesterday. ” Providing everything was all right and planned properly, I can’t think of any reason why they shouldn’t,” he said. Paul, who split with the rest of the group three years ago, was talking at London’s Heathrow Airport before flying with his family to the West Indies for a holiday. He’s pictured with his wife Linda, her daughter Heather, 10, by a previous marriage, and their daughters, one-year-old Stella, and Mary, 3.


“Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)“, released on the 1973 album “Band On The Run“, was written during those days in Jamaica.
On one of our Jamaican holidays we had heard that Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen were around, shooting the film Papillon. We were invited to visit the set and Dustin asked us back to his house for dinner. He was asking me how I write songs; I explained that I just make them up. He said, Can you make up a song about anything?’ I wasn’t sure, but he pulled out a copy of Time, pointed to an article and said, ‘Could you write a song about this? It was a quote from Picasso, from the last night of his life. Apparently, he had said to his friends, ‘Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink anymore,’ and then gone to bed and died in his sleep. So I picked up a guitar, started to strum and sing ‘Drink to me, drink to my health…’, and Dustin was shouting to his wife, ‘He’s doing it! He’s doing it! Come and listen!’ It’s something that comes naturally to me but he was blown away by it. And that song became Picasso’s Last Words.

Last updated on September 20, 2023
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