Glasses

Song facts

“Glasses” is a fragment of a 3-parts instrumental on the 1970 “McCartney” album – the two other parts being “Hot As Sun” and a very few seconds of “Suicide“.

From PopMatters:

The first part, “Hot As Sun”, written in 1959, is one of the first instrumental songs McCartney wrote. A happy-sounding guitar-based melody, it uses an organ to make the carnival-sounding middle part. It then abruptly cuts into “Glasses”, which is mostly composed by the sound of electronic waves traveling through the rims of drinking glasses. This is a technique that McCartney seems to be fond of; in the PBS TV special Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road (available on The McCartney Years DVD set), he shows how it can be done. […]

Phil McDonald was engineer on the “McCartney” album and mentioned in the liner notes of McCartney 2011 edition:

The title ‘Glasses’ was fun as we ended up with a huge amount of glasses all filled with water on a big table in [Abbey Road Studio?] Number 3. All glasses were meticulously filled with water to the desired pitch of the song.

Last updated on January 21, 2015