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Pete Townshend revealed that he helped Paul McCartney understand the intricacies of home recording, which lead to his one-man-band solo debut, McCartney.

In the May issue of Uncut, the Who leader recalled how he hipped “Macca” into tracking full-on masters at home: “Do you know the story about Paul’s first solo album? I was working on my first solo album, Who Came First, at Olympic. He was in the studio doing something as well and came in to listen to the whole album. Paul said: ‘How did you do this?’ I said that I recorded it at home. I said, ‘I’ve got a little mixing desk and an eight-track tape machine.’ He went, ‘F***! And you did it yourself?’ I said, ‘Yeah, you should do it.’”

Townshend went on to recall, “We had a couple of phone calls subsequently and then he called up one day, really energized, and said, ‘The guys from Abbey Road have delivered an eight-track tape machine to my house in St. John’s Wood and I’ve started.’ So he made that first album with (McCartney). That’s how Paul started. Now he’s got this big SSL studio in his house in Sussex, he can do whatever the f*** he likes!”

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