Bogey Music
| "Bogey Music" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Paul McCartney | |
| from the album McCartney II | |
| Released | May 16, 1980 |
| Recorded | June—July 1979 |
| Studio | Hogg Hill Mill, Sussex Campbeltown, Scotland |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 3:28 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Songwriter(s) | Paul McCartney |
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney |
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"Bogey Music" is a song by the English musician and former Beatles bassist and vocalist Paul McCartney.
The song got a unofficial sequel that saw a release on the McCartney II Archive Collection.[1]
Background
The song was made for a film adaptation of Fungus the Bogeyman, but the film was never released.[2]
Style
According to author Vincent P. Benitez Jr. McCartney's vocal sounds very similar to Elvis Presley in it's overall style.[3]
Inspiration
According to McCartney in the book The Dream is Over: Off The Record 2, he wrote the song for a book called Fungus The Bogeyman, for kids and grown-ups, too, which was sent to him by a guy who wanted to make it into a film and wanted McCartney to write songs for it. As McCartney summarized the story: "The story is a bit strange, and the basic idea is that the bogeymen are people who make bumps in the night. They live beneath the ground and come out at night and frighten people and they like everything that is opposite to what we like. If we like warm dry clothes, they like wet slimy ones."[4]
Recording
Ted Montgomery stated that the song has "Nice galloping drums and bass part propels this silly little exercise, with lots of echo-y vocals"[5] Steve Hamelman said that it may seem "banal at best, idiotic at worst, but the album was written, engineered, and performed with what Paul McCartney had at his disposal in 1980."[6]
Reception
Ian Peel commented that it "sounded any different from a Wings demo reel by ploughing the entire vocal track through a reverb"[7]
References
- ↑ Quietus, The (2011-04-27). "Paul McCartney McCartney II Reissue Due In June!". The Quietus. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
- ↑ Staff, MAGNET (2012-04-05). "Hidden Gems: Paul McCartney's "McCartney II," Part 2". Magnet Magazine. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
- ↑ Jr, Vincent P. Benitez (2010-03-23). The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-313-34970-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Badman, Keith (2009-12-15). The Beatles: Off The Record 2 - The Dream is Over: Off the Record. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-102-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Montgomery, Ted (2020-01-31). The Paul McCartney Catalog: A Complete Annotated Discography of Solo Works, 1967-2019. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-3801-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Hamelman, Steve (2016-05-19). All by Myself: Essays on the Single-Artist Rock Album. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-4724-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Peel, Ian (2013-04-02). The Unknown Paul McCartney. Titan Books (US, CA). ISBN 978-1-78116-275-0. Search this book on
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