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PAUL DESCRIBED A RECENT RECORDING SESSION AS 'NERVE-WRACKING' AND 'NAIL-BITING' DAN HAYGARTH Liverpool Daily Post Editor and Regeneration Reporter 11:40, 22 May 2025 Paul
McCartney has worked with some of the biggest stars in music history. Over the years, he has recorded duets with Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Johnny Cash, as well as appearing on
stage with icons like Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Brian Wilson. With Stevie, Paul released the 1982 single 'Ebony and Ivory', which was the lead single from his third solo
album 'Tug of War'. The same year he worked on 'The Girl Is Mine' with Michael Jackson, featuring on the album 'Thriller'. They also worked on two other songs
together - 'Say Say Say' and 'The Man' for Paul's album 'Pipes of Peace'. He can now add another big name to that list. Paul has joined Barbra Streisand on
a new version of his song 'My Valentine', which he wrote for his wife Nancy McCartney and was originally released as a single in December 2011. The new version with Barbra was
released on Friday and will feature on the album 'The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2', which will hit shelves next month. In a brief question and answer session on his website,
Paul was asked about working on the song in LA. Asked what it was like recording with Barbra, Paul said: "Nerve-wracking. Nail-biting! I did the session with her in LA and I was pretty
terrified. I think the session was about three hours, you know, a normal kind of session, and it was produced by my friend Peter Asher. "But it started off with a big 40-piece
orchestra on the Sony lot, which is one of the old Hollywood film studios; it’s very impressive. And we were on ‘The Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage’, so no pressure there! Article continues
below "I thought, ‘Well, this will be easy because it’s my song, it’s 'My Valentine'. What can go wrong?’ But what I’d forgotten was that they'd arranged it so that it
had to go in Barbra's key and then in my key. "So, to get from Barbra's key into mine was kind of difficult, and I had to launch in not knowing what key I was in. Mine was
lower, hers was higher. It wasn’t easy at all!" It is not the first time Paul has worked on a new version of the song. In 2022, he produced Michael Buble's cover of 'My
Valentine', which featured on his album 'Higher'. The Walton-born 82-year-old said he was inspired by the idea working on another version of the song. He was full of praise
for Barbra's creative process. Paul added: "I thought if Barbra is going to do my song, I’ve got to encourage that. Article continues below "And she was great. I didn’t
realise how rounded she is, creatively. They were filming the session and as soon as we went in, she said, ‘Who put that camera there? That shouldn’t be there, bring it over here. And what
about those lights?’ "I thought, ‘Wow, you’re directing it!’ But then I suddenly remembered she’s directed three big movies. She’s a smart cookie."