Distractions - Paul McCartney

The oblique "Distractions" was a song that greatly benefited from additional hearings of the track, a characteristic shared by few other tunes on "Flowers in the Dirt." The basic track was recorded at the Mill during the summer of 1988. A potent string arrangement by Clare Fischer was taped later in the year in Los Feliz, California at Chick Corea's Mad Hatter Studios in a 2-5pm session on November 1, 1988. The orchestra consisted consisted of fourteen violins, four violas, two cellos, and an acoustic bass. Also recorded during this session was an arrangement written by Fischer for the Macca/Costello tune "The Lovers That Never Were," but this take went unissued. At one point, "Distractions" was considered as the third single to be pulled from the LP with a tentative release date of September 25, 1989. Instead, "Figure of Eight" took its place. An alternate mix appears here as the soundtrack to the video included in the "Put it There" documentary. The studio clips featuring Paul, Chris, and Hamish appear staged for the videos purpose, and were possibly shot at the same time as the "Put it There" special.

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[PERROMALDO]

Flowers in the dirt is by far Paul´s best post - beatle album. To me this was his top solo artist moment. Amazing.... Put It There, Distractions, We Got Married, Rough Ride, Figure Of Eight, This One.... He did so many good songs in a single album as to fill half of a greatest hits record. Shame it was not so known by people.

[Popoi108]

What a song! What an album!

[YasyaEagle]

Paul should live forever!

[Vera4962]

I'm a Mafia Wars Boss so don't pick on Paul or I'll sick my nearly 4,500 members on your butt!!

[calle68]

@PERROMALDO I agree with you. At that time, was easy to hear some of the tunes at the radio. Now, this amazing lp, the best Paul's album after the Beatles IMO, is almost forgotten ... What a piece of Art. Elvis Costello revealed to be the right counterpart to Macca. It's a shame that this collaboration ended.

[hildaMcCartney]

ke hermoso ... pasan los años y Paulie no cambia... eres Precioso ... Eres definitivamente el mejor!

[moon2008848]

que tipazo...tan romatico....

[shalott43]

Another song of Paul that can make you travel in time, and let you escape from your troubles and boring life. Suddenly it's easy to share his incredible love for music and his capacity to create beautiful songs like this and the world and the story that can be created just listening to him. Love you Paul!

[Mrmofongo624]

@PERROMALDO it was a succes in the uk and worldwide(not huge, but pretty big),but not so much in the U.S. because the singles failed to impact.

[hildaMcCartney]

me encanta me encanta !!!!!!

[nickdudman82]

amazing album and hugely under rated...

[WilburyVision]

I've always thought of this album as being quite similar to Tug of War - very accomplished, very well arranged, another good effort Paul. God - it's so hard to pick a McCartney top ten song list... there are SO many gems!