Sunday Rain

“Sunday Rain” is a song by the American rock band Foo Fighters, appearing on “Concrete and Gold”, their ninth studio album released in 2017. Paul McCartney contributed to this song, by playing drums.

There’s one [special guest on the new album] who is probably the biggest pop star in the world. He or she sings backup on one of the heaviest songs on the record. And we’re not telling anybody who it is.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl – From BBC Radio 1 interview, June 20, 2017

Paul McCartney plays drums on one of our songs. He’s a pal. We’ve known him for a long. He’s great. He’s the most wonderful person in the world. He’s a great guy

Dave Grohl – From ET Canada, July 31, 2017

He hadn’t even heard of the song. He comes in and Dave picked up an acoustic and showed him real quick. He sat on his special drum set that his tech set up for him. I sat there with a drumstick conducting. He did two takes

An unspecified member of the band (drummer Taylor Hawkins?) – From ET Canada, July 31, 2017

You don’t generally think of him as a drummer. But he laid that track so fucking effortlessly. He never even heard the song – Dave kind of explained it to him with an acoustic guitar. And he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah. I think I know what you’re doing.’ 

Taylor Hawkins – From Rolling Stone, September 6, 2017

We have a song on our record called “Sunday Rain” that Taylor sings, and on the record, Paul McCartney plays the drums. I had written it and demo’d it by myself, and we jammed it as a band. And, I love it when Taylor sings because he’s got such a great voice. I was going to play drums on this song, because Taylor was gonna sing it. And he said “you know what? You should get Paul McCartney to come in and play drums”. And not a lot of people know that Paul McCartney has played drums on a lot of songs that you’ve heard – Beatles songs too. And I was like “Hey man, you want to play drums on a new song on our record?”. And he texted back, he was like “You’ve always got crazy ideas!”. He came into the studio, had his drum set set up, and just immediately started doing that thing that he recognized. He’s got a real swing to it! But the greatest part was watching him do it, because he’d got this huge smile on his face. And he was so into it when he was playing! And so Taylor sat on his stool and like conducted like “Chorus!”, “Pre-chorus!” as we were tracking. I think our version of the song was maybe five minutes long. But Paul’s version was like twelve minutes. He just didn’t want to stop! He was having so much fun! So we did one, we’re like ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing’, and we had it. We went in and listened and we were like “Wow that was easy, man!” He is amazing.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl – From How Paul McCartney Wound Up Playing Drums on “Sunday Rain” | Great Performances (ket.org), November 10, 2017

Lyrics

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Live performances

Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.