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:
Feb 16, 2001
November 2001 • From paulmccartney.com
“About You” is a track from Paul McCartney’s 2001 album “Driving Rain“.
Recorded 16th February 2001 onto 16-track analogue tape then loaded into Logic Audio for overdubs Paul played a Pignose electric guitar and sang the vocal then overdubbed more vocals. Abe played Paul’s Ludwig drum kit then overdubbed a tambourine. Rusty played Vox bass guitar then overdubbed Gibson 12 string electric guitar. Gabe played Wurlitzer then overdubbed Hammond organ.
From the liner notes of the album, and from paulmccartney.com
‘About You’ was written in India, in Goa. We had such a relaxing start to an Indian holiday which was at the beginning of 2001. It was exciting, I hadn’t been back to India since the Mararishi days, which was 25 years or so ago. It was great to look around a bit more; I’d only seen Rishikesh, north of Delhi, before. We started off in Goa, relaxed beach time, and one afternoon I wrote ‘About You’ on a little travel guitar I’ve got which has it’s own amp in it. I picked some words out for the song after seeing a copy of The India Times which was lying around.
Paul McCartney – From “The Driving Rain interview” published on paulmccartney.com, November 2001
You give me power to get out of bed
When in the morning I'm feeling dead
Living and loving there's a lot to be said it's true
Gonna say it about you
Gonna say it about you
Out of the darkness and into the light
Straight to the centre of everything right
Darling don't worry the sky will be bright and blue
When I say it about you
Gonna say it about you
I'll say it about you
When did you teach me to fly thru the air
Sooner or later we all will be there
I read the headlines and now I can swear it's true
And they said it about you
Gonna say it about you
Gonna say it about you
Gonna say it about you
Gonna say it about you
Official album • Released in 2001
2:54 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Electric guitar, Executive producer, Vocals Rusty Anderson : 12-string electric guitar, Bass Abe Laboriel Jr. : Drums, Tambourine Gabe Dixon : Electric piano, Hammond organ David Kahne : Mixing engineer, Producer Mark Dearnley : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jaime Sickora : Assistant engineer Kevin Mills : Second assistant engineer
Session Recording: Feb 16, 2001 • Studio Henson Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Driving Rain - Ultimate Archive Collection
Unofficial album • Released in 2015
2:54 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Electric guitar, Executive producer, Vocals Rusty Anderson : 12-string electric guitar, Bass Abe Laboriel Jr. : Drums, Tambourine Gabe Dixon : Electric piano, Hammond organ David Kahne : Mixing engineer, Producer Mark Dearnley : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jaime Sickora : Assistant engineer Kevin Mills : Second assistant engineer
Session Recording: Feb 16, 2001 • Studio Henson Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Give Us That Knowing Wink - Official Rarities - Ultimate Archive Collection
Unofficial album • Released in 2016
0:44 • Studio version • [snippet]
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.
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