Draft:Bip Bop

"Bip Bop" is a song by the British-American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings from their debut album Wild Life.

The song was rereleased on the Pure McCartney album and the EP Family

Recording
The song was recorded quickly during the summer of 1971

McCartney on the song
McCartney in The Lyrics: 1956 To The Present: "I can get a bit perfectionist about things and think, ‘This is just not one of my grand pieces,’ and often I’ll get a bit down on them. I remember being very down on a song called ‘Bip Bop’ and thinking, ‘Oh God, how banal can you get?’ But I once said that to a producer named Trevor Horn, who produced Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones and a lot of cool recording artists, and he said, ‘That’s one of my favourites of yours!’ And then I could see what he saw in it, which is what I saw in it when I wrote it and wanted to record it, so he made me feel better about that."

- Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon

McCartney during an interview with Paul Du Nover in Q Magazine: "What’s the worst song you’ve ever written, then? “Bip Bop. The lyrics are fucking awful,” he grins, and then starts singing: “‘Bip bop, bip bip bop, Bip bop, bip bip band, Dig your bottom dollar, put it in your hand…’ But[producer] Trevor Horn told me, ‘That’s one of my favourites’. I can’t hate it that much, can I? There must have been a reason I liked it in the first place.”

Bip Bop (Link)
Side two of the Wild Life album features a version of the song called Bip Bop (Link).

Reception
Sam Jordison said that the song "sounds like an outtake of an outtake of a jam session gone wrong"

Live Performance
The song was performed live on 9th February 1972 during the Wings University tour.

Personnel
The Beatles Bible and The Paul McCartney Project have alternate personnel, personnel is taken from The Paul McCartney Project:

Bip Bop:

Bip Bop (Link):
 * Paul McCartney – bass, electric guitar, vocals
 * Linda McCartney – vocals, tambourine (?)
 * Denny Laine – electric guitar
 * Denny Seiwell – drums, tambourine (?)


 * Paul McCartney – acoustic guitar