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Paul McCartney
Run Devil Run
Capitol
CDP 7243 5 22351 2 4
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1. Blue Jean Bop
(Vincent/Levy)
First released in 1956 by Gene Vincent. “I remember hearing Blue Jean Bop on an album that I think John had; going to a place near Penny Lane for the afternoon, having a ciggy, and just listening to records. Blue Jean Bop was always one of my favourites. The first record I ever bought was Be Bop-A-Lula. We loved Gene.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 5/3/99
Copyright 1956 Ardmore Music Corp., Copyright 1956 Renewed Morley Music Co.

2. She Said Yeah
(Williams)
The Beatles covered three Larry Williams songs: Bad Boy, Slow Down, and Dizzy Miss Lizzie. “Me and John particularly loved Larry Williams…Bony Moronie…John did Slow Down. I was always going to do She Said Yeah.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 5/3/99
Copyright 1959 Venice Music Inc.

3. All Shook Up
(Blackwell/Presley)
This song gave Elvis his first British No. 1, in June 1957 – the week Paul celebrated his 15^th birthday. “Me and a mate used to go around the fairgrounds of Liverpool trying to pick up girls; we got the blues ‘cause we couldn’t even get arrested. We’d go home, depressed, and put on this records and it lifted us, got rid of the blues.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar, backing vocals;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Dave Mattacks: Drums;
Geraint Watkins: Wurlitzer, piano;
Recorded at Abbey Road 4/5/99
Copyright 1957 Shalimar Music Corp.

4. Run Devil Run
(McCartney)
“I saw this herbal medicine shop in Atlanta selling Run Devil Run products. I thought it is a great rock ‘n’ roll title. So I did a story, Chuck Berry style.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar, lap steel guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 3/3/99
Copyright 1999 MPL Communications LTD

5. No Other Baby
(Bishop/Watson)
The most obscure song on the album. It was released as a single in 1958 by a British skiffle group The Vipers. “I’ve no idea how this one got so embedded I my memory…I never had the record, still haven’t.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar, electric guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar, backing vocals;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Hammond organ;
 Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 5/3/99
Copyright 1957 Essex Music Ltd

6. Lonesome Town
(Knight)
A 1958 American hit for Ricky Nelson. “I like Ricky Nelson…Stood Up, Believe What You Say…but I loved Lonesome Town. It’s like Heartbreak Hotel, it’s a place we all know.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar, backing vocals;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Geraint Watkins: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Dave Mattacks: Percussion
Recorded at Abbey Road 3/3/99
Copyright 1958 Matragun Music Inc

7. Try Not To Cry
(McCartney)
“I just wrote a bluesy song that never gets in the way of the snare. It was actually that simple.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar, percussion;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Geraint Watkins: Piano;
Dave Mattacks: Drums, percussion;
Recorded at Abbey Road 5/5/99
Copyright 1999 MPL Communications LTD

8. Movie Magg
(Perkins)
This was the first song Carl Perkins wrote. “I knew Carl, he was a great old country boy who used to pick cotton and he’d have all these stories. This one is about his girlfriend Maggie, who he’d sometimes take to the movies on his mule, old Becky. They had no car so they rode to the movie show. And it’s true.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, acoustic guitar, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Ian Paice: Drums, percussion;
Recorded at Abbey Road 2/3/99
Copyright 1955 (Renewed) Carl Perkins Music Inc. All rights administered by Unichappell Music

9. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
(Berry)
This Chuck Berry original is more familiar from Holly’s posthumous 1963 single. “We wanted to put an accordion on our version, make it slightly Cajun, just to get it away from Buddy’s a bit.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar; percussion, electric guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar (Hi Strung);
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums, percussion;
Chris Hall: Accordion;
Recorded at Abbey Road 5/3/99
Copyright 1958 Arc Music Corp.

10. What It Is
(McCartney)
“I was playing bluesy riffs on the piano and this song started to come out. Linda was there and I enjoyed it just for that, for the little feedback she gave. So I thought I’ll do that as sort of my little tribute to Linda.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar, electric guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar (Hi Strung);
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 4/3/99
Copyright 1999 MPL Communications LTD

11. Coquette
(Green/Kahn/Lombardo)
An obscure Fats Domino B-Side. “It’s just me singing Fats. We tried fixing bits of it because I thought, “God, this is too much like a pub singer”…but we ended up going back to the earliest mix, it just has a feeling.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar, electric guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 1/3/99
Copyright 1928 Leo Feist Inc.

12. I Got Stung
(Schroeder/Hill)
A 1959 No.1 single for Elvis. “It was not my favourite Elvis song, but I kept hearing “Holy smoke landsakes alive, I never though this would happen to me.” That intro kept grabbing me. I though I’ll do it a bit more raucous than Elvis.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 1/3/99
Copyright 1958 Gladys Music Inc./Rachels Own Music

13. Honey Hush
(Turner)
Written by Big Joe Turner. Paul was more familiar with Johnny Burnette’s version. “John and Stuart used to have a flat in Gambier Terrace. I remember waking up, burning eyes job, and one of the guys put on “Come into this house, stop all that yakety yak.” It’s still my favourite on the whole album to sing.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Wurlitzer;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 3/3/99
Copyright 1954 Unichappell Music Inc.

14. Shake A Hand
(Morris)
Paul was always a big Little Richard fan, he can be hard on The Beatles At The BBC letting rip on Lucille and Ooh! My Soul. “I have this image of being in Hamburg; there was one bar that had a pool table and a great jukebox. And that was the only place I ever heard Shake A Hand. Every time we went there, I put it on. I never had the record, but I know I wanted to do it. It always takes me back to that bar.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar, electric guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano, Hammond organ;
Ian Paice: Drums, percussion;
Recorded at Abbey Road 2/3/99
Copyright 1953 (Renewed) Regent Music Corp and Lena Music

15. Party
(Robinson)
First heard in Elvis’s second film, Loving You, in 1957. “Whenever we used to try and get the words, we’d get stuck on the verse… ‘Never kissed a bear, never kissed a goo!’ We could never get it. At the end, that’s me going ‘I’m not giving up man.’ It seemed like a good idea to end the album on that.”

Paul McCartney: Vocal, bass guitar;
David Gilmour: Electric guitar;
Mick Green: Electric Guitar;
Pete Wingfield: Piano;
Ian Paice: Drums;
Recorded at Abbey Road 4/3/99
Copyright 1957 Gladys Music Inc., Copyright Renewed 1985 MPL Communications Inc.

Paul McCartney: Hofner Violin Bass;
Ian Paice: Pearl Drums and Paiste Cymbals;
Dave Mattacks: Yamaha Drums and Zildjian Cymbals;
Pete Wingfield and Geraint Watkins: Piano and Keyboards;
David Gilmour: Fender Esquire;
Mick Green: Fender Stratocaster, serial number S71440;

Credits: Recorded at Abbey Road Studio, London; 1 March – 5 May 1999;
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Produced by Chris Thomas and Paul McCartney;
Engineered by Geoff Emerick and Paul Hicks;
Mastered by Steve Rooks; Mick Green courtesy of BMA Records;

Thanks to: John Hammel, Keith Smith, Eddie Klein, Robby Montgomery, Alan Crowder, Lilian Marshall, Roger Huggett, Norman Hathaway, Aleen Toroyan, Bill Porricelli, Jamie Kirkham.

Cover photo: Dave Fine;
Paul photo: Richard Haughton;
Young Paul photo: Copyright Mike McCartney;
Session photos: John Hammel;
Products photo: Mike Owen;
Instrument photos: Philip Gallard;

Drawings: Copyright Klaus Voorman (www.klaus-voorman.com)  and Aleen Toroyan;
Design: Norman Hathaway;
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Making Run Devil Run:

The sound of Run Devil Run is the rock ‘n’ roll that boomed across every fairground you went to as a kid. The smell is candyfloss and fried onions, toasting out over the teenage night. And the feel is the bright beckoning future that every teenager dreams of. Run Devil Run is the sound of the past and the promise of the future. It is Paul McCartney looking forward by leaning back. This is the music that shaped him as a teenager, that made him pick up a guitar.

Rock ‘n’ roll is edging up to its first half century; nearly 50 years since a young truck driver sauntered into Sun Studios in Memphis and unleashed a revolution. Like millions of other starstruck teenagers, when he first heard Elvis, opportunity rocked for James Paul McCartney of Allerton, Liverpool. The memory of that first seismic shockwave has always stayed with him. Take a moment to flick back through those early Beatle records – and along with the hundreds of familiar Lennon & McCartney compositions, just check those other composer credits: Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Larry Williams, Little Richard… No wonder Bob Dylan honoured The Beatles for reminding Americans of their rock ‘n’ roll heritage, by calling his landmark 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.

So in March 1999 Paul hand-picked a small band and repaired to Studio 2, Abbey Road. In a week, working flat out, Paul McCartney (bass, guitar, vocals) – accompanied by David Gilmour (guitar), Mick Green (guitar), Ian Paice (drums), Pete Wingfield (keyboards), Dave Mattacks (drums) and Geraint Watkins (keyboards) – recreated that golden age of rock ‘n’ roll.

“The week before, Ian asked co-producer Chris Thomas “Any idea what songs we’re going to do, just so I can do a bit of homework?” I said no: “No homework on this project. I really wanted this to be fresh – like it was at the Cavern.” “I had a big manilla envelope with all the lyrics, and I’d flick through them on a Monday morning…Rick Nelson, mmm…Searchin’…and then I’d think that’s it, that’s the spirit I want, and I’d pull it out. I’d say to the guys, “Anybody know She Said Yeah?” They’d say no, because they were slightly obscure choices, I’d say okay, this is how it goes. We’d take five or 10 minutes – and that’s how we did it in The Beatles – because how many times can you go through a song without everyone getting bored?”  “We’d spend 15, 20 minutes top whack, and everyone’d go yeah, got it. Then we’d go to our instruments, I’d go to bass and singing, and we’d just try it. It’s a bit ropey at first: second take it gets better. We’d do a couple of takes and say okay, that’s it. Then we’d leave it, not even listen to it. Yeah, right; next song…and I’d go back to my envelope. “Anyone know No Other Baby?”  No, right, here’s how it goes…and as we were doing it, I thought God, I haven’t done this since I was 14. And I got the same feeling back.”

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