"Flaming Pie" sessions with Jeff Lynne at Hog Hill Mill #2
February 1996 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flaming Pie
Recording studio: Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Article February 1996 • Promo campaign to celebrate Buddy Holly's 60th anniversary
Session February 1996 • "Flaming Pie" sessions with Jeff Lynne at Hog Hill Mill #2
Session Started Feb 19, 1996 • Recording "Souvenir"
Session Feb 27, 1996 • Recording "Flaming Pie"
EP Mar 04, 1996 • "Real Love" by The Beatles released in the UK
Some of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Flaming Pie" Official album.
“Souvenir” was recorded in February 2016 during the second round of sessions with Jeff Lynne.
During the work on “Souvenir“, another song emerged – what would become “Flaming Pie” – which would be the second song recorded during those sessions. Paul McCartney, in Club Sandwich n°82, Summer 1997:
I was working with Jeff Lynne on ‘Souvenir’ when we decided that we wanted to add some raw, heavy-ish guitars. We had the amps belting in the studio, playing the guitars in the control room with long leads, and while the engineers were getting the sound we started vamping and found a few chords and some funky riffs. I started shouting a little bit of a melody and so I asked the engineer to stick on a DAT tape. We just jammed, but then I suggested we turn it into a song. The words came to me a few days later when I was out horse riding with Linda, going through some birch woods. I was musing and dreaming about the lyrics, looking for a rhyme for “sky”, going through the alphabet, when I got to “pie”. The words “flaming pie” fitted and I got quite excited about it. “Making love underneath the moon” became “Making love underneath the bed” – it was great fun to write.
Paul McCartney
Written by Paul McCartney
Recording
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