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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexis Petridis

Paul McCartney’s greatest post-Beatles songs – ranked!

Paul at home in England, 1980
Paul at home in England, 1980. Photograph: © Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney

30. Paul McCartney – Secret Friend (1980)

McCartney’s penchant for the musical avant garde dates back to the mid-60s (before John Lennon’s, as he’s often keen to point out). You didn’t hear much from leftfield Macca in the 70s, but he reappeared on Secret Friend, an outtake from McCartney II that sounds, extraordinarily, like abstract, ageless, Balearic techno 10 years early.

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