Glasses (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the McCartney Official album.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1970

Sessions This song has been recorded during the following sessions

"McCartney" session at Abbey Road Studios (February–March 1970)

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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