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‘I Do’ is the fifth song on Paul McCartney’s 2001 album Driving Rain. See more…

This album is not necessarily what you expect from me, because it’s not what I was I was expecting. But by going into the recording freely, not dictating, things just evolved. For instance the song ‘I Do’ was originally written down low, me singing it like a little low soul thing. But during the session I thought I’ll try sing it higher, and it makes for one of best bits in the song; it’s like I’m trying to catch my breath, because I’m having to go up the octave into this big vocal change. By doing that, this exciting little thing happened to the song. So this process of doing it the Rubber Soul way was making me sing a bit differently and making me think differently. I was letting David come up with his ideas and he was almost DJ-ing some of the mixes. We’d work until early evening, six or seven, and then we’d leave him to play around with it all. Most of the time I loved what he did. So that also took it in little exciting directions that none of us expected.