Macca possessed by George

He claims Harrison wrote song through him

26 Jul 05 - Paul McCartney has made the sensational claim that George Harrison wrote one of the songs on his new album, over three years after his death.

He says he was possessed by his old friend while writing the track Waiting For Your Friends To Go.

He told 6 Music:

"The funny thing about it was I felt as if I was almost George Harrison during the writing of that song.

"I just got this feeling, this is George. So it was like I was writing - I was like George - writing one of his songs.

"So I just wrote it, it just wrote itself very easily 'cause it wasn't even me writing it."

He went on to say he still wasn't sure what the song was about:

"I was like George - writing one of his songs."
Paul McCartney

"I thought, OK, the 'waiting on the other side' is also a little bit loaded, it can be crossing the river Jordan or whatever, y'know, that sort of thing. There's a little bit of double meaning there.

"It was funny particularly the second verse: 'I've been sliding down a slippy slope, I've been climbing up a slowly burning rope.' I just thought - it's a George song."

McCartney says the track is one of his favourites on new album Chaos and Creation In The Back Yard, which is out in September.

Lucy O'Doherty