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31 March 2008
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‘What’s That You’re Doing?’ is the fourth song on Tug Of War, Paul McCartney’s third solo album.
It emerged from a jam between McCartney and Stevie Wonder after the recording of ‘Ebony And Ivory’, and was recorded at AIR Studios on Montserrat in early March 1981. See more…
‘What’s That You’re Doing?’ is me and Stevie collaborating. He’s doing the sort of funky riff, and I’m putting the song together. My memory of that is, because he’d only just come up with the lyrics, and he was still writing them as we were recording, he couldn’t remember all the words easily. He had his manager. Stephanie – who I think is still his manager, I run into her when I see Stevie, so she still looks after him – help out. She had a copy of the lyrics. This was a great idea: she would be in an adjoining booth and would prompt him in his headphones. With each line, she would say it through to him, just before he sang.
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26 January 2017
Offline One of the best of his 80s output. Love putting this on in the car for friends who respect the Beatles but consider them to be tame compared to the funky jams they like to listen to. They never guess its a Paul McCartney song. Man he and Stevie are absolutely laying it down on this one. Love it so much.
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