Great start to the day. My dear friend Robert is down from Glasgow and he comes over to the house for breakfast. Fantastic to see him. He is funnily enough one of those filthy swans you were asking about.
Get in to the studio and Emery is treating the strings on "song to self" in an interesting way. Very nice.
Then to make a great morning even greater, Paul McCartney pays us a surprise visit with his son James.
Bizarre that he should come in on our second last day when it was the Sgt Pepper/Lovely Rita experience that started all this off. He says he thinks he recognises the tape machine from abbey road.
Very nice to see him and James. We play them J.Smith and they seem to like it Paul says "it sounds pretty different for you guys" which i think is meant as a good thing.
I can't help noticing,however, that he is a bit distracted by a long list of single syllable profanities which is sitting on the desk (don't ask). He and James head off and we crack on.
Andy, Franny and I play three acoustics round one mic for a cool little bit in the middle section of "song to self" and then F goes about the vocal. Sounding great.
Me and him go in to put some high oohs and aahs over the chorus. mmm ethereal. Dinner time seems to roll round ever quicker as we run out of time. But i think we are still on course.
After a very tasty dinner of sea bream on puy lentils we move on to "get up". Franny re sings it and Andy and I go into put some thuggish backing vox on.I put on some very high (for me) bvs which take few goes to get.
We then bring up "before you were young" and add some bits of vocal. I know it sounds like we are all over the place but this is how it is as you get closer to the finish line. And we are very close.
Time has rolled and i believe delirium is setting in so we head off home around 2 am.
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