Biker Like An Icon | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

‘Biker Like An Icon’ was the fourth single released from Off The Ground, Paul McCartney’s ninth solo studio album. See more…

‘Biker Like An Icon’ is a first take and there are a couple of others too… It’s such a simple little song that you can ruin it if you go over it 50 times. Everyone understood how it went, and Robbie must have had some idea what he was going to do on slide guitar because he just delivered a solo – I didn’t tell him when to do it, he just felt it.

This, I think, is the secret of the album. With Flowers In The Dirt I experimented with computers, and working with producers who take a long time over everything. There are some interesting aspects to working like that but not enough to excite me. That’s what happened with something like ‘Biker’ – we just did it and got lucky. And the more you listen to the album the more you get to feel that we were enjoying ourselves.