Radiohead turn McCartney collaboration down

Did he want to collaborate on a song or album?

wait, then what of modeselektor?

i think this is awesome. the next logical step after duet w/mccartney is dancing with the stars.

“only happy working on his own and Radiohead’s material.”

So what about Thom’s collaborations with PJ Harvey, Modeselektor, Bjork, DJ Shadow…

McCartney… what a cunt.

thom wouldn’t have said no to john

Awesome. I agree with ReCreeper though, if he did collaborate with with McCartney it’d definitely be a step towards selling his soul. Plus, Paul would flip if the music said, “By Yorke and McCartney”

thoms a douche!
live a little thom!
damn

i bet he didnt want to do it just because its paul mccartney

it could have been something great

This is ridiculous Thom..

Paul is the greatest, and even though he has been slipping, this would have been the perfect.

What a shame/

thom is an obsessive beatles fan. it’s not a sign of disrespect. it’s just an honest assessment that everything the man has done in the last 25 years has been embarrassing.

the idea of mixing the beatles and radiohead is amazing, yeah, but paul 2007 is an obnoxious, MOR adult contemporary artist. like phil collins or something. good call, thom.

it doesn’t matter what mccartney was, the duet would take place in the present time, where mccartney is a old tosser and a sullied name.

Of course he didnt want to do it “just because its paul mccartney”. They guy is the devil incarnate.

“macca” sold his soul many years ago. He isnt even my favourite member of Wings.

This doesn’t make any sense. I have a feeling that the Sun is not giving all of the facts, or Paul is not correctly quoting Thom.

yes and what their recent webcast, during which thom played nearly 50% covers?

The head of state has called for me…but I don’t have time for him. I think that Faust Arp sounds kinda beatlesque or more like paul mcartney with wings when i first heard it.

good

word

I heard they tried it, but Paul kept singing the lyrics to “Sexy Sadie” and Thom did “Karma Police” and it was all a big mess.

This collaboration would have worked if Radiohead was around in 1960 something. Paul is Pop royalty, but good move Thom.

Too bad. I love Thom, I love Paul. I think it would have worked perfectly.

Some years ago Macca collaborated with Elvis Costello - and they produced wonterful songs.

i watched the interview with paul on T4 and he was talking about how he can’t play instruments well except for on his song songs and he said thom felt the same he said he didn’t want to colaberate on the song as he could only play radiohead songs, thom didnt say it was because he didnt want to do anythng outside of radiohead

guess it is a better story for the media if he did

Read again, people. This was NOT a Paul McCartney album; it’s an album by one of his kids. It’s a vanity project which I assume she was trying to sell by having her dad perform on it, and Thom was asked to work not on a McCartney song, but McCartney’s daughter’s song. Who know who would have actually written it; it might have been Paul, but the album would still go out under Paul’s daughter’s name. She’s fishing for credibility with having her dad (who can’t really say no) and Thom (who is free to say no) on this record.

Nice one Thom. Anyone of us here would’ve done the same thing. I still maintain my logic that the wrong two Beatles died.

In 66 Lennon languishes at home in a
haze and Mccartney seeks out Stockhausen,
Berio, William Burroughs etc, all much
older than him and working in a different genre,
but food and drink for a young man’s creative needs.
McCartney is a musician first and foremost and
with far wider horizons than Yorke (see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paul-McCartney-Avant-garde/dp/1903111366 if you dont mind challenging your preconceptions?) and a
major figure in British musical history. Cheesy? Yes. But a genius also.
Yorke, of course has an image he has to
to maintain - you can infer that
from some of the comments here. But Bjork and PJ Harvey, over
McCartney? No… I don’t think so.

I can’t believe that everyone is taking a ‘news’ story from The Sun seriously…

…but all I can think of is ‘Ebony & Ivory’…God help us all!

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Thomas said:
“He isnt even my favourite member of Wings.”
LOL a lot, and me too though, I’ve got a much warmer feeling about Denny Laine (the only other member I can identify .. oh no hold on, Sir Pauls late wife, rest in peace, with all due respect).

Trip Fontaine said:
“paul 2007 is an obnoxious, MOR adult contemporary artist. like phil collins or something”

I agree completely. And (though I know I don’t know what the man is really like of course) he has always come across me as a shallow, even dishonest person. And a weak, nay boring personality (though not quite as bad as sir Cliffy (God bop his baloney).