Pretty Boys

Written by: McCartney
Recorded: 2020
Producer: Paul McCartney

Released: 18 December 2020

Available on:
McCartney III

Personnel

Paul McCartney: vocals, all instruments

‘Pretty Boys’ is the third song on McCartney III, Paul McCartney’s solo album written and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Pretty Boys came from a newspaper article about some male models who’d got annoyed at a photographer who’d been too aggressive and a bit abusive #TimsTwitterListeningParty #McCartneyIII

— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 21, 2020

I was walking along the street in New York, I saw a big line of bicycles and I thought ok well that’s a nice idea, ‘a line of bicycles for hire…’ So the idea is about male models being for hire #TimsTwitterListeningParty #McCartneyIII

— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) December 21, 2020

It always starts from the song. That’s kind of how some of this started. When he did ‘Pretty Boys’, he sat down and said ‘I’ve got this really nice little thing I’ve been working on’. It was a riff that he’s had going for ages, I recognised it from way back when he started playing it. He just sat down with an acoustic and knocked out the vocal and the acoustic at the same time. Then it just developed.

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