Simple As That (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Pipes Of Peace - Archive Collection Official album.

Timeline This song has been written (or started being written) in 1980 (Paul McCartney was 38 years old)

Simon's Wigwam

Simple Song

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

Home recordings

August 1980

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Song facts

“Simple As That” is a demo recorded in August 1980 – not to be confused with the eponym 1986 song.

The book "The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present", published in 2021, covers Paul McCartney's early Liverpool days, the Beatles, Wings, and solo careers, by pairing the lyrics of 154 of his songs with first-person commentaries of the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now.

"Simple As That" is one of the 154 songs covered.