MCCARTNEY ADOPTS FEMALE ALTER EGO FOR ALBUM RECORDING

Last updated: Saturday, November 22, 2008

MCCARTNEY ADOPTS FEMALE ALTER EGO FOR ALBUM RECORDING

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY adopted a bizarre new persona to record his latest album ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS - renaming himself GLADYS JENKINS to avoid the pressure of living up to his icon status.

Paul McCartney at Paris Fashion Week - Spring/Summer 2009 - Stella McCartney - at the Carreau du Temple - Backstage. Paris, France - 02.10.08

The former Beatle confesses he has an odd way of conquering his nerves and overcoming his inhibitions when making a new LP - but insists it's a tried and tested method that has produced masterpieces in the past.

He says, "We decided to go undercover, to do whatever we wanted.

"That way, when you go to the microphone, I don't think of it as going as Paul McCartney and it frees you up. I'd say, 'Right, you're going to become Gladys Jenkins.'

"It was quite thrilling, that's how we approached (classic 1967 Beatles record) Sgt. Pepper's. It's like you're playing instead of working."

Source: WENN

| Saturday, November 22, 2008

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