Additional overdubbing occurred in March/April 1971. Most of the overdubbing, including adding brass instruments to the beginning of the song, occurred in January 1971. "Too Many People" was initially recorded on 10 November 1970 in Columbia Studios in New York City. In this version a stereo phaser was used to produce a sound that music journalist Ian Peel describes as coming from a "psychedelic echo chamber." Recording McCartney also recorded an instrumental version of "Too Many People" that was released on his Thrillington album. According to Vincent Perez Benitez, this strategy "enhance the coherence of the song," in a manner consistent with McCartney's earlier song " Maybe I'm Amazed." "Too Many People" incorporates guitar solos in both the middle and at the end of the song. This allows McCartney to go from the bridge to a repetition of the introduction music as a means of moving the music back to the verses. The introduction to the song as well as the bridge alternate the tonic chord of G major with its minor subdominant chord of C minor. Rolling Stone stated that "Too Many People"'s "incredibly sweet melody is proof that McCartney could use his charm as a weapon when he wanted to." Despite this revision, Gallucci interprets the line as a "dig at Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono." The line "You took your lucky break and broke it in two" was originally "Yoko took your lucky break and broke it in two" but McCartney revised it before recording the song. So that one got to be a thing about them. It was just a bit the wagging finger, and I was pissed off with it. The whole tenor of the Beatles thing had been, like, to each his own. And I felt we didn't need to be told what to do.
I felt John and Yoko were telling everyone what to do. But the first line is about "too many people preaching practices". Like, a piece of cake becomes piss off cake, And it's nothing, it's so harmless really, just little digs. The song begins with the line "piece of cake" (similar in sound to "piss off, cake") later revealed to be a veiled jibe at Lennon: Oh, there was "You took your lucky break and broke it in two". There wasn't anything else on it that was about them. I mean, that was a little dig at John and Yoko. In one song, I wrote, "Too many people preaching practices", I think is the line. He'd been doing a lot of preaching, and it got up my nose a little bit. I was looking at my second solo album, Ram, the other day and I remember there was one tiny little reference to John in the whole thing. According to Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci, it is "McCartney's bitchiest kissoff to his ex-bandmates." As McCartney himself recalled in an interview with Playboy in 1984: Mixing Engineer: Eirik the Norwegian Paul and Linda recording 'RAM' at CBS Studios, New York, 1971."Too Many People" contains digs at McCartney's former bandmate and songwriting partner John Lennon, as well as his wife Yoko Ono. Sound Engineers: Tim, Ted, Phil, Dixon, Armin & Jim Tracks 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 composed by Paul & Linda McCartneyġ993 reissue: Tracks 13 (‘Another Day’) & 14 (Oh Woman, Oh Why’) produced by Paul McCartney Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 12 composed by Paul McCartney Performed by Paul & Linda McCartney with Denny Seiwell, Dave Spinozza & Hugh McCracken
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In 2012, RAM was reissued in remastered form with many extra elements, as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. It was very much the two of us against the world at that point.” Despite an initially lukewarm Rolling Stone review, it was later hailed by them as one of his best solo albums. Elton John later said somewhere that he thought it was the best harmonies he’d heard in a long while. “I gave her a hard time, I must say, but we were pleased with the results. As well as Paul’s lead vocals there are harmonies from Linda. Then we went in, worked with him, Hugh McCracken, Dave Spinozza, a couple of New York session men, and did RAM.” To avoid arousing too much interest, the auditions were held under the guise of a session for a commercial jingle. We got someone to throw a lot of drummers at us, out of which we picked Denny Seiwell who’s one of the best, and his personality fitted. We went to New York, found a really grotty little basement somewhere and auditioned a bunch of people.
As Paul recalls, “We were thinking of forming a group at that time, Wings. Recording after he’d left The Beatles and before the formation of Wings, Paul initially flew with Linda to New York to record the songs they'd written but arrived without a band. The only album credited to both Paul and Linda McCartney, RAM reached Number 1 in the UK and stayed in the US Top 10 for five months.
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