The two got on Instagram Live for a half-hour conversation Thursday afternoon that touched on everything from how many hours St. Vincent listened to McCartney’s original version of “Women and Wives” before she finished her version of it (about a hundred) to the upcoming Beatles film, “Get Back,” that McCartney is currently in Los Angeles to take a look at. (Excerpt from Variety, to read the full interview click here)
After proclaiming the “III Imagined” album full of “crazy stuff” and simply “great,” McCartney added, “I can be modest, because I didn’t do it!”
He allowed that one other reason he was in L.A., besides attending a screening of some “Get Back” footage with Ringo Starr tonight, was to finish up some work with producer-writer Andrew Watt.
“I just started doing a little bit of work,” he said, suggesting he’s making a return to collaborative recording after the one-man opus that was “III.” “I met the producer Andrew Watt. Have you heard of Andrew?” he asked. (She had.) “I just met him. My manager said you might like to go say hello and meet him, so I went around for a cup of tea, and of course we ended up making a track.”
“When you’re watching the Beatles’ footage,” St. Vincent asked, “what do you feel when you see that stuff?”
“It’s funny… I knew Peter was a great director; he’d done ‘Lord of the Rings’ and all this. But what he was given was 56 hours of footage. So I said to him, ‘Ehhh — It was a little bit of a difficult period for me, so I’m not sure I’m going to like it.’ So he said, ‘Well, let me look at it. And he looked at it and got back to me and said, ‘It’s great. It’s friends — you’re just making the music.’ And he said, ‘The rapport is great; it’s just a little band working.’ And so he showed me some stuff, and I love it. It’s no bad vibes.
“And as you say, your question of what do I think looking back at it: It’s so nice, because I just see me goofing off with John, George and Ringo. We’re just goofing with each other, but at the same time we happen to be making this pretty cool album. I like looking back, because it’s my history. To me it always reminds me of a family snapshot album… It’s good for me.”
