Related sessions
This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions
"McCartney" session at Abbey Road Studios
February–March 1970
"James Paul McCartney" sessions
February - March 1973
Recording "One Hand Clapping" - Day 1
Aug 26, 1974
Sep 29, 1974
April 1980
"Working Classical" session for string quartet pieces
February 21-25th, 1999
Some other songs dedicated to Linda
Officially appears on McCartney
Officially appears on Red Rose Speedway
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May 05, 2001 • From TV Guide
Paul McCartney On His Not-So-Silly Love Songs
Mar 16, 2001 • From Billboard
Winter 1994 • From Club Sandwich
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Song facts
I wrote Maybe I’m Amazed in my early days with Linda. I was sitting in London, playing my piano, and the song kind of wrote itself – reflecting my feelings towards her. It’s remained a favourite of mine.
Paul McCartney, Wingspan, 2002
“Maybe I’m Amazed” is a track from Paul McCartney’s debut solo album, “McCartney“, released in April 1970. From Wikipedia:
McCartney wrote the song in 1969, just before the Beatles’ break-up. He credited his wife Linda with helping him get through the difficult time. Although most of his debut solo album was recorded at his home in London, McCartney recorded “Maybe I’m Amazed” entirely in EMI’s Number Two studio in Abbey Road, on the same day as he recorded “Every Night“. He played all the instruments: guitars, bass, piano, organ and drums. Although McCartney declined to release the song as a single in 1970, it nonetheless received a great deal of radio airplay worldwide. A promotional film was made, comprising still photographs of McCartney, his wife Linda, stepdaughter Heather, and daughter Mary, which first aired in the UK on 19 April 1970 on ITV in its own slot, and as a part of an episode of CBS Television’s The Ed Sullivan Show.
The original studio version of the song finished with a fade instead of a full ending, but McCartney later composed an ending that can be heard on the live versions of the song. He first performed this live with Wings, in Châteauvallon, France, on 9 July 1972.
Regarded as one of McCartney’s finest love songs, it achieved the number 347 position in the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004, and is the only solo McCartney song to make the list. In a late 2009 Q&A with journalists held in London to promote his live album Good Evening New York City, McCartney said “Maybe I’m Amazed” was “the song he would like to be remembered for in the future“.
In a review for the McCartney album on release, Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone described “Maybe I’m Amazed“, as “a very powerful song“, that states “one of the main sub-themes of the record, that the terrible burden of loneliness can be dispelled by love.” Winner continued to describe the track as “the only song on the album that even comes close to McCartney’s best efforts of the past. It succeeds marvelously.” In a retrospective review for McCartney, Record Collector has highlighted “Maybe I’m Amazed“, along with “Every Night” and “Junk“, as songs that “still sound absolutely effortless and demonstrate the man’s natural genius with a melody“. Joe Tangari of Pitchfork similarly evaluated “Maybe I’m Amazed“, along with “Junk” and “Singalong Junk“, as the “peaks” of McCartney.
Live version
A live recording from the 1976 album Wings over America was released as a single by McCartney’s band Wings on 4 February 1977 and reached number 10 in the US on the Billboard pop charts, and number 28 in the UK. Versions of the song can be heard on several other live McCartney albums including Back in the U.S. and Back in the World. “Maybe I’m Amazed” has become a centrepiece of McCartney’s concerts, along with “Band on the Run” and “Live and Let Die“. Live versions of the song are available on the 2011 reissue of McCartney.
From the press release of “McCartney”, April 1970
Written in London, at the piano, with the second verse added slightly later, as if you cared.
Recorded at EMI, No. 2 Studio. First
1 piano.
2 vocal.
3 drums.
4 bass.
5 and vocal backing.
6 and vocal backing.
7 solo guitar.
8 backing guitars.Linda and I are the vocal backing group. Mixed at EMI. A movie was made, using Linda’s slides and edited to this track.
Paul McCartney
‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ taken from the concert film ‘Rockshow’:
Last updated on June 8, 2020
Lyrics
Baby I'm amazed at the way you love me
all the time.
and maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me
out of time, and hung me on a line, and maybe
I'm amazed at the way I really need you.
Middle
Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man
whose in the middle of something
That he doesn't really understand
Baby I'm a man maybe you're the only woman
who could ever help me,
Baby, won't you help me to understand.
Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me
all the time,
and maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you,
maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me
sing my song,
right me when I'm wrong,
and maybe I'm amazed at the way I really
need you.
Middle
Baby I'm a man, (REPEAT)…
Officially appears on
Official album • Released in 1970
3:54 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Organ, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013) on Amazon
Official live • Released in 1976
5:20 • Live • L1
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
12" Single • Released in 1976
3:53 • Live • L1.2 • Mono • Short version
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
12" Single • Released in 1976
5:22 • Live • L1.3 • Mono • Album version
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
12" Single • Released in 1976
3:53 • Live • L1.1 • Stereo • Short version
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
12" Single • Released in 1976
5:22 • Live • L1 • Stereo • Album version
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
7" Single • Released in 1977
5:11 • Live • L1
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Keyboard, Vocals
- Denny Laine :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Bass guitar, Vocals
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Electric guitar, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Joe English :
- Drums, Vocals
- Mark Vigars :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Overdubs recording
- Jack Maxson :
- Recording engineer
- Tom Walsh :
- Assistant recording engineer
Concert From the concert in Kansas City, USA on May 29, 1976
Official live • Released in 1990
4:42 • Live • L2
- Performed by :
- Paul McCartney • Linda McCartney • Robbie McIntosh • Hamish Stuart • Paul Wickens • Chris Whitten
- Paul McCartney :
- Producer
- Eddie Klein :
- Assistant engineer
- Matt Butler :
- Assistant engineer
- Peter Henderson :
- Producer
- Bob Clearmountain :
- Mixing engineer, Producer
- Jeff Cohen :
- Recording engineer
- Geoff Foster :
- Assistant engineer
- Scott Hull :
- Assistant engineer
- George Cowan :
- Assistant engineer
- Paul Rushbrook :
- Assistant engineer
Concert From the concert in Rotterdam, Netherlands on Nov 08, 1989
McCartney (by DCC Compact Classics)
Official album • Released in 1992
3:54 • Studio version • A1992 • 1992 remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Organ, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Steve Hoffman :
- Remastering
- Session Recording:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013) on Amazon
Official album • Released in 1993
3:54 • Studio version • A1993 • 1993 remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Organ, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Linda McCartney :
- Backing vocals
- Phil McDonald :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 22, 1970
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013) on Amazon
Bootlegs
Live in Leeds University 73/5/19
Unofficial live
3:55 • Live
Concert From the concert in Leeds, United Kingdom on May 19, 1973
Films
1970 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Charlie Jenkins
1977 •
Live performances
“Maybe I'm Amazed” has been played in 531 concerts and 3 soundchecks.
Latest concerts where Maybe I'm Amazed has been played
Los Angeles • Dodgers Stadium • USA
Jul 13, 2019 • Part of Freshen Up Tour
Jul 10, 2019 • Part of Freshen Up Tour
Jul 06, 2019 • Part of Freshen Up Tour
Las Vegas • T Mobile Arena • USA
Jun 29, 2019 • Part of Freshen Up Tour
Las Vegas • T Mobile Arena • USA
Jun 28, 2019 • Part of Freshen Up Tour
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I think Maybe I'm Amazed is one of the best songs ever written expressing feeling toward someone. I have a question on though. In the live version toward the end it sounds like he is says Hey Mone or mon ami before he says maybe .... What is he saying? I can't find it anywhere but you can definitely hear it in the song.