![]() “I wrote it all out and stuck it all together like a scroll that went from here to the end of the room. “We’d been in Jamaica before we went to New Orleans and for the first time ever, I’d got all the songs together,” he went on. ![]() I’d written most of the stuff before we got there, and Jimmy had written one of the tracks with a mate of his. “And then we found out Mardi Gras was on while we were there. “We went down to New Orleans in search of a musical town and the weather,” explained McCartney to Melody Maker as the album was released. Venus and Mars was a record with something for everyone, from the rocking riffs of “Venus and Mars/Rock Show” and “Call Me Back Again,” via the spoof 1920s-style love song “You Gave Me The Answer” to the McCulloch/Colin Allen composition “Medicine Jar.” There was even a brief, closing instrumental version of the theme from the long-running British TV soap opera Crossroads, which was featured on the show for a while.
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