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‘Heather’ is the eleventh song on Paul McCartney’s 2001 album Driving Rain.
It was named after McCartney’s second wife, Heather Mills, whom he married on 11 June 2002. They separated in May 2006 and divorced acrimoniously two years later. See more…
There’s a funny story about this track. It actually came about early one morning. I’d got up and was just jamming on the piano and Heather, who doesn’t know all of The Beatles songs because she’s young, said ‘That’s great – which Beatles song is that?’ I said ‘It’s not, I’m just making it up’. And she’s like ‘What? Now? Making it up now?’ Yeah. Suddenly she’s saying ‘Get it down! You’ve got to get that down, get it on a tape, now!’ I’m saying ‘No, it’s OK, I’m just noodling’, but she’s insisting ‘get it down!’, so we found a little dictaphone and played it into that. And then she said ‘By the way, what’s it called?’ ‘Oh’, I said, ‘It’s called ‘Heather”.
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Offline I can listen to this son on repeat for hours. I find it very inspired – what do you say, @Sea Belt?
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I can listen to this son on repeat for hours. I find it very inspired – what do you say, @Sea Belt?
I can see listening to this repeatedly. It’s pleasant & catchy, but to me it lacks that “spark” of McCartney’s inspired songs.
Now today I find, you have changed your mind
