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‘Young Boy’ was the lead single released from Paul McCartney’s tenth solo album Flaming Pie. See more…

‘Young Boy’ was another of these ‘set yourself an arbitrary deadline’ goal. In fact, it started to be just a ‘Poor Boy’. ‘Just a poor boy looking for a way to find love’. The ‘Poor Boy’ reminded me like an old Elvis song and ‘Poor Boy’ just had too many connotations. So ‘Young Boy’ was better, I liked the word better, ‘Young Boy’.

And I started making up this song, you know, just thinking about all the young people I know who are in that position, who are just starting off on a romance or starting to find their partner or whatever. And I just became a subject, you know, I remember it well enough myself. ‘Looking for a way to find love’… I mean I remember this whole process of finding out somebody who’s for me. But how am I ever going to meet her? Just 300,000,000 of them. It’s very perplexing at that age – fingers crossed – that’s all you can do.