Famous Groupies
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- Album This song officially appears on the London Town Official album.
Lyrics
All stand back, let the people see
Take a snap of the famous groupies for me
Behold the famous groupies
They are alike as two peas
And where the other goes, the other goes
But though the famous groupies
Are only paid in rupees
Nobody knows what the famous groupies know
And nobody goes where the famous groupies go
There was a bongo player
Who kept an extra layer
Of Dunlopillo mattress in his van
But when the famous groupies
Arrived with their twin snoopies
Nobody saw which way the poor boy ran
Nobody does it like a famous groupie can
All stand back, let the people see
Take a snap of the famous groupies for me
There was a lead guitarist
Who lived in Epping Forest
And all he ever wanted was to blow
When the girls were with him
He never lost his rhythm
And nobody knows what the famous groupies know
Nobody goes where the famous groupies go
There was the classic story
Of a roadie nicknamed Rory
Who used to practice voodoo on the side
When the famous twosome
Suggested something gruesome
All that they found was a crater two miles wide
Which left the music business absolutely horrified
Ladies and gentlemen, those magnificent examples of
female pulchritude and luminosity, direct from their
global perambulations to the very boards of this
supremely magnificent proscenium arch –ladies and
gentlemen; I give you FAMOUS GROUPIES!
Officially appears on
Official album • Released in 1978
3:36 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Bass, Electric guitar (?), Mellotron, Percussion, Producer, Slide guitar (?), Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Electric guitar (?)
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Slide guitar (?)
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant engineer
- Pete Henderson :
- Assistant engineer
- Steve Churchyard :
- Assistant engineer
- Session Recording:
- May 13, 1977
- Studio :
- Record Plant Mobile Studio, Fair Carol Yacht, US Virgin Islands
- Session Overdubs:
- November 1977
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Official album • Released in 1993
3:36 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Bass, Electric guitar (?), Mellotron, Percussion, Producer, Slide guitar (?), Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Electric guitar (?)
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Slide guitar (?)
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant engineer
- Pete Henderson :
- Assistant engineer
- Steve Churchyard :
- Assistant engineer
- Session Recording:
- May 13, 1977
- Studio :
- Record Plant Mobile Studio, Fair Carol Yacht, US Virgin Islands
- Session Overdubs:
- November 1977
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Bootlegs
Unofficial album • Released in 1999
3:44 • Rough mix • From Stereo 1978 Test Pressing Acetate - With Rough Different Mix
Latest concerts where Famous Groupies has been played
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.