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‘Flaming Pie’ is the title track of Paul McCartney’s tenth solo album.

Flaming Pie was McCartney’s first solo project after working on The Beatles’ Anthology, and he attempted to revive the playful spirit and swift working practices of his former band. See more…

We had some funny moments during the making of the Anthology, when we remembered things differently. The biggest was ‘who thought of the name Beatles?’. George and I both remember it the same way: John and Stu had come out of their flat in Gambier Terrace, Liverpool, and we were walking towards the Dingle, chatting, when they told us of their new name for the band. But, what with one thing and another, we didn’t exactly say this in the TV and video series.

I was working with Jeff Lynne on ‘Souvenir’ when we decided that we wanted to add some raw, heavy-ish guitars. We had the amps belting in the studio, playing the guitars in the control room with long leads, and while the engineers were getting the sound we started vamping and found a few chords and some funky riffs. I started shouting a little bit of a melody and so I asked the engineer to stick on a DAT tape. We just jammed, but then I suggested we turn it into a song. The words came to me a few days later when I was out horse riding with Linda, going through some birch woods. I was musing and dreaming about the lyrics, looking for a rhyme for ‘sky’, going through the alphabet, when I got to ‘pie’. The words ‘flaming pie’ fitted and I got quite excited about it. ‘Making love underneath the moon’ became ‘Making love underneath the bed’ – it was great fun to write.