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Bet that Paul McCartney Can Be a Total Oddball?

Bet that Paul McCartney Can Be a Total Oddball?

Paul McCartney Temporary Secretary (1980)

All of the Beatles went solo at one point in their careers. Paul McCartney did it for the first time in 1970. It took him a decade to do it again, and among some McCartney-ish pieces on McCartney II, his sophomore album also featured “Temporary Secretary”, a wonky synth pop oddball that the British music magazine NME would describe as sounding not “so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether.” The usual instrumentation—guitar, drums, and, obviously, McCartney’s voice—was supplemented with a quirky sequencer. Not odd enough yet? The song is, as McCartney claimed at one point, about “a fellow who just wants a disposable secretary, and he's writing to a bureau to try and get one. I just like the idea. I just thought it was funny, you know, asking for a temporary secretary rather than a secretary.” Still not sure? Convince yourself:

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