10 Great Paul McCartney Solo Songs You Need To Listen To Right Now
8. Temporary Secretary (McCartney - 1980)
Three songs in and three totally different styles and genres. This is why we love Paul.
'Temporary Secretary' is, and you are about to read this correct, a synth-heavy, four-on-the-floor electropop song about a man looking for, well, a temporary secretary. Paul is mad and it's brilliant.
Taken from the Liverpudlian’s third solo album (he’d been releasing music with his band, Wings, throughout the 70s), which is confusingly called McCartney II, 'Temporary Secretary' was written by Paul as an “experiment” and because he found the idea of the whole thing “funny”. God bless him.
The song is another example of Paul making a fun song for fun’s sake and he nails it. It’s also the perfect example of Paul’s incredible talent for taking seemingly-mundane topics and transforming them into the excitement through music.
It definitely divides opinion amongst fans and critics – some detest this song, whilst Rolling Stone magazine named it Paul’s best post-Beatles tune.
Regardless of what other people say, this song definitely deserves your attention. Just be prepared to give it a few listens to really get to grips with it, it’s a lot to take in in one go.