-29.10.2001

From a Lover to a Friend

“From A Lover To A Friend” Single artwork as featured in 'The 7" Singles Box'

-29.10.2001
“From A Lover To A Friend” Single artwork as featured in 'The 7" Singles Box'

PAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a FriendPAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a FriendPAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a FriendPAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a FriendPAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a Friend
PAUL McCARTNEY - From a Lover to a Friend
Release date - 29 October 2001
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Tracklisting

  1. AFrom a Lover to a Friend
  2. BRiding into Jaipur

Single Notes

'From a Lover to a Friend' featured on Paul's 2001 album Driving Rain. It was released as a single and spent two weeks on the UK Singles Chart.

Recorded on 20th February 2001 onto 16-track analogue tape then loaded into Logic Audio for overdubs. Paul played piano then overdubbed Höfner bass and the vocal. Abe played drums. Rusty played 12-string electric guitar with a capo on the 1st fret. Gabe played piano.

‘From A Lover To A Friend’ was a patchwork of a couple of bits I’d had, which I liked but I didn’t think I’d finished up the songs. That turned out to be a good thing because I got together with my man Eddie at my studio in England and we were going through these demos; I’d liked this bit and liked that bit and we just stitched together a couple of bits that weren’t meant to go together but they just felt like they would go together. Interestingly for me, just to make one or two cuts work for the edit and not chop into the vocal, I had to add a strange extra bar in, so the collage had some odd bars – instead of it all being 4:4, it was like 5:4 in places or 2:4, which was something I like. And when I played the demo to the guys everyone was all very keen on faithfully following all those little 5:4 bars, just to give it a different musical structure. The other thing about the demo was that part of it was a rather, shall we say tired late-night demo, a bit out-of-it demo, but it had a very intimate quality in the voice and so I tried to keep that and not clean up the record so much that I’d lose that lazy late-nightness.
Paul