Album This song officially appears on the Driving Rain Official album.
Timeline This song was officially released in 2001
This song was recorded during the following studio sessions:
Mar 02, 2001
Unreleased song
Getting Better All the Time - The complete interview - live and uncut!
November 2001 • From Reader's Digest
November 2001 • From paulmccartney.com
“Heather” is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2001 album “Driving Rain“.
Some tracks from Paul’s original demo were transferred to 16-track analogue tape then loaded into Logic Audio for overdubs on 2nd March 2001. Paul played Piano and sang the vocal then overdubbed electric, acoustic and bass guitar. Abe overdubbed Paul’s Ludwig drums. Rusty overdubbed backing vocals. Gabe overdubbed backing vocals. David overdubbed sampled strings. Ralph Morrison overdubbed violin.
From the liner notes of the album, and from paulmccartney.com
‘Heather’ – there’s a funny story about this track. It actually came about early one morning. I’d got up and was just jamming on the piano and Heather, who doesn’t know all of The Beatles songs because she’s young, said ‘That’s great – which Beatles song is that?’ I said ‘It’s not, I’m just making it up’. And she’s like ‘What? Now? Making it up now?’ Yeah. Suddenly she’s saying ‘Get it down! You’ve got to get that down, get it on a tape, now!’ I’m saying ‘No, it’s OK, I’m just noodling’, but she’s insisting ‘get it down!’, so we found a little dictaphone and played it into that. And then she said ‘By the way, what’s it called?’ ‘Oh’, I said, ‘It’s called ‘Heather”
Paul McCartney – From “The Driving Rain interview” published on paulmccartney.com, November 2001
I'm gonna fly to the moon
Check in outta space
Find me a suitable plot
Build myself a place
There I will stay
For a year and a day
Until the cares of my life blow away
And I will dance to a runcible tune
With the queen of my heart
Heather
Official album • Released in 2001
3:26 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar, Executive producer, Piano, Vocals Rusty Anderson : Backing vocals Abe Laboriel Jr. : Drums Gabe Dixon : Backing vocals David Kahne : Mixing engineer, Producer, Strings sampling Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Ralph Morrison : Violin Paul Hicks : Recording engineer Mark Dearnley : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jaime Sickora : Assistant engineer Kevin Mills : Second assistant engineer
Session Recording: Mar 02, 2001 • Studio Henson Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Driving Rain... In The New Century
Unofficial album • Released in 2002
0:22 • Other • Short rendition from the GMTV, ITV "breakfast show" with Penny Smith.
Recording : Nov 26, 2001
Driving Rain... In The New Century
Unofficial album • Released in 2002
0:16 • Other • Recorded mid November 2001 for the Dutch "Tros TV Show" with Ivo Niehe, NED2, broadcast 01-12-11.
Recording : Mid-November 2001
Driving Rain - Ultimate Archive Collection
Unofficial album • Released in 2015
3:26 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar, Executive producer, Piano, Vocals Rusty Anderson : Backing vocals Abe Laboriel Jr. : Drums Gabe Dixon : Backing vocals David Kahne : Mixing engineer, Producer, Strings sampling Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Ralph Morrison : Violin Paul Hicks : Recording engineer Mark Dearnley : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jaime Sickora : Assistant engineer Kevin Mills : Second assistant engineer
Session Recording: Mar 02, 2001 • Studio Henson Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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