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‘We Got Married’ is the fifth song on Paul McCartney’s eighth solo album Flowers In The Dirt. See more…

Linda and I got married in Marylebone Town Hall in March 1969. I suppose I could have written something like ‘in the hall with the judge, we signed papers’, and just used very literal memories and simple descriptions. But I wrote this song many years after our wedding, and I started to think more universally, imagining every man and every woman getting married. It’s really the story of any marriage, not necessarily mine – though a lot of it could be mine.

‘Going fast/Coming soon/We made love in the afternoon/Found a flat/After that/We got married’. That does sound like a shotgun wedding. John was the first in our group to get married, and it was indeed a shotgun wedding. In those days it was more embarrassing than it is now. Nowadays, people don’t even bother getting married; there’s no particular reason why they should. But John found a flat in London, and he got married to his first wife, Cynthia. I’m pretty sure I was channelling them a bit here too.