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‘House Of Wax’ is the eleventh song on Paul McCartney’s Memory Almost Full album. See more…

When I wrote <em>Blackbird Singing</em> with Adrian Mitchell, I was doing a little tour with him, and I’d said, ‘Why don’t we resurrect that sixties thing where we’ll play a backing track and you recite a poem?’ He liked that idea, so we did it…

‘Lightning hits the house of wax’ – I remember saying these words to Adrian and being quite proud of the phrase. The phrase ‘house of wax’ has various references. It could be either a Madame Tussauds or a place where they make records – wax being records, as in ‘waxing a disc’. I suppose the best-known ‘house of wax’ is the one in the 1953 horror movie by that name, which stars Vincent Price and is as hair-raising as a film can be. I didn’t have a specific house of wax in mind, and I can’t imagine that I was inspired by the gruesome Price murderer – that’s just not my thing – but I did like the idea of a house of wax.