Follow Me

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“Follow Me” is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2005 album “Chaos And Creation In The Backyard“. From an interview of Paul McCartney by Gary Crowley:

Follow Me was one of those songs that kind of almost wrote itself.  You know, sometimes you’re feeling great about your life, not always but you’ve been lucky.  You’re feeling great (plays) and, erm, I actually had done something where I had sung Let It Be and I was thinking, ‘It’s kind of nice having a song like that because it’s kind of quasi-religious but it’s very uplifting, you know’.  ‘There will be an answer, let it be,’ and stuff, you know.  (Plays) It’s in C, a very sort of open key.  (Sings) ‘When I find myself, in times of trouble,’ so I was sort of messing around in that region and thinking of the same sort of thing, you know.  What is it?  It’s just somebody very important in your life or is it spirits of goodness or whatever it is, something kind of great so it was just like, (sings) ‘You lift up  my spirits, you shine on my song, whenever I’m empty, you make me feel whole, I can rely on you to guide me through any  situation, hold up the sign that reads, Follow Me.’  Come on, boys, everybody in.  It was one of those that just kind of wrote itself once you got there.  It was like you do this, you’re great, you just give me direction, it just inspired.

Paul McCartney – 2005 UK promotional-only interview CD, recorded July 2005 at Air Studios in London; full interview available on Chronicles in the Backyard Disc 1

Last updated on January 12, 2021

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