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Monday, September 25, 2006

Interview for Associated Press

Interview of Paul McCartney

Last updated on June 18, 2025


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London, 25th September 2006
12 mins approx

  1. CU man looking through programme
  2. CU pages from programme
  3. MS press
  4. CU cameraman
  5. CU programme for ‘Ecce Cor Meum’
  6. CU notebook, Paul McCartney’s voice in background
  7. VS spectators
  8. B-roll Paul McCartney entering press conference
  9. SOT Costa Pilavachi (President EMI Classics) introducing Paul McCartney (MS Paul McCartney)
  10. WS Costa Pilavachi and Paul McCartney
    11.MS Paul McCartney
  11. SOT Paul McCartney, includes SOUNDBITES:
    “I’m very proud of it, I do like it. It was started when Linda was alive and we originally went up to Magdalen together so it has a lot of my feelings for her in it. When she died it stalled me and it took a year or so before I could get back into it. The interlude in the middle, the particularly sad melody is what got me going again. So her spirit is very much in this, it would have been her birthday yesterday so it’s very appropriate.”

(on how he sustains his writing)
“I love what I do. I love writing music. If I didn’t do it for a living I would do it for a hobby. That is really how I sustain it, I just actually love going in each day and trying to write a bit of music. The process took that long but every step of it was a thrill.”

(on his well-being and music)
“I’m doing fine thank you. It’s okay, I’m enjoying music as I said in the last question, it is something I love to do, it is something that sustains me. I am enjoying it and I am enjoying finishing this project up and I am on to the next one.”

(Reporter: “How do you feel about the story in the Daily Mirror?”)
SOT Paul McCartney: “You are a little renegade coming out the corner there… You didn’t put your hand up. I haven’t read the Daily Mirror today.”
(Reporter: “It’s about you being very sad and you can’t cope with the split.”)
SOT Paul McCartney: “Have we someone breaking away from the script? Yes we have. Thank you very much.”

  1. VS Paul McCartney leaving press conference

Paul McCartney writing

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