10 Bands That Were Haunted While Recording

Paul McCartney has always claimed that some of his greatest songs have always come from the other side of consciousness. In his Beatles days, he had always talked about writing Yesterday as a tune he heard in his sleep, or Let It Be being written after his mother gave him that exact message in a dream. He may be a little bit cagey about how he writes songs sometimes, but it looks like that supernatural side of his writing never really failed him over the years either.

Trying to get a new sound on his album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, Paul was in a much more vulnerable place here, losing George Harrison only a couple years before and on the verge of separating from his wife Heather Mills at the time. He did get paid a visit from his old friend in song though, working on the song Friends to Go and noticing that it had shocking similarities to a song that George would have written back in the day.

Rather than just frankenstein it into something that he would have wanted to hear, Paul has said that he actually felt George's spirit guiding him through the rest of the song, practically writing itself for the rest of the session and having the same tropes that you would get from a George Harrison deep cut off of something like Living in the Material World. It had been years removed from the days when the Beatles were together, but that brotherhood bond has the power to be stronger than mortality.