Sir Paul McCartney feared his new album would ruin his career. The Beatles
legend has just completed work on "Electric Arguments," an ambient record with
his side project "The Fireman, " which he says was recorded from entirely
improvised sessions.
He said: "I had to make a disclaimer to the engineers. I said this could be
the most embarrassing moment of my life. It was thrilling, but it could have
been a terrible mistake. I could ruin my whole career."
The 66-year-old musician also revealed his hatred of working alone. Paul -
who composed most of the early Beatles hits with the late John Lennon - says it
gets too lonely if you don't have other musicians to discuss ideas with.
He added: "I like having a collaborator. Otherwise I get the feeling of being
an absentminded professor alone in his laboratory all day. "I did the first solo
McCartney record all on my own. It seemed a bit lonely.
There's a track on there that's about 10 minutes long. Try playing maracas
for 10 minutes in a row on your own. I was standing in the room thinking,
'That's it - I've really lost the plot.' "
