Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles. Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?

My name is Jason Carty. My name is Stephen Cotcroft. And we are live on tape from Dublin. This is the second part of our podcast on Beatle songs about the Beatles

songs that they wrote about each other. And in the first part, if you haven't listened to it

already, we've talked about how they kind of ended up using songs after they're split to have a go

at each other. And we kind of left the story towards the end of 71, start of 72, when things

start to take a bit of a change.

So we're going to delve right back in.

I think maybe Stephen, the first kind song that comes along,

the first nice song that tries to make amends,

comes in late 71 on the Wings Wildlife album,

which is Paul's dear friend.

Yes.

So this is, again, this is a very explicit song to John.

It came out after How Do You Sleep on Imagine, which was probably John's most vicious

attack on Paul.

So at the time it was perceived as an answer to that, sort of Paul reaching out

to John in response to how do you sleep. But actually, it had been recorded before that song.

So that just happened to be the way, the sequence in which they were released. But it came

out during the 1971 RAM sessions. And it's very clearly an attempt at reconciliation

with John. One can only imagine having recorded that knowing it was sitting there,

then he hears how do you sleep. And he wonders. Should I put this out? Should I not put this out?

But it's one of those rare examples I think think, from McCartney, where he's, he's, it's a very naked lyric.

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