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Started May 11, 1995

Recording "If You Wanna"

For Paul McCartney

Last updated on September 6, 2020


Master session

Location

  • Recording studio: Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK

Timeline

Master release

AlbumSome of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Flaming Pie" Official album

Some of the songs from this session also appear on:

In May 2005, Steve Miller spent two weeks with Paul in Hog Hill Mill. “If You Wanna” was one of the songs worked on during those sessions.

Paul McCartney, in Club Sandwich n°82, Summer 1997:

We had a day off in Minneapolis when we were on tour. Linda was going off to do something and I stayed behind in the room and wrote a song on guitar. Recording wise, I used the same process as the other songs I did with Steve Miller: me on drums, Steve on guitar, both playing acoustic guitars, I did the vocals and produced Steve’s guitar stuff. This is the kind of song you might hear when you’re driving across the desert in America, Easy Rider country.


Session activities

  1. If You Wanna

    Written by Paul McCartney

    Recording

    AlbumOfficially released on Flaming Pie


Staff

Production staff


Going further

Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium

We owe a lot to Chip Madinger and Mark Easter for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details!

Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium is the ultimate look at the careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr beyond the Beatles. Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including everything in between. From their early film soundtrack work to the officially released retrospectives, all solo efforts by the four men are exhaustively examined.

As the paperback version is out of print, you can buy a PDF version on the authors' website

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