Sir Paul McCartney reveals what it was really like working with The Rolling Stones

Sir Paul McCartney admitted that he was "well chuffed" to be asked to appear on The Rolling Stones' new album.

The Beatles legend features on his former chart rivals' upcoming record Foreign Tongues, having previously played bass on Bite My Head Off from their 2023 record Hackney Diamonds, but Paul refused to be "blase" about the experience.

The 83-year-old star admitted it was "really exciting" to be involved, particularly because he doesn't normally play "as a session guy."

He told NME, “It was really nice to just show up at a studio with your bass and just say, ‘Right, where do you want me?”

"You start playing, and they show you the song, and I start thinking, ‘I’m playing with the Stones!’” Sir Paul gushed.

“And I’m well chuffed! You could be a bit blasé and go, ‘Yeah, OK, so what?’ But for me, it wasn’t – it went the other way,” he expressed.

The Hey Jude hitmaker further expressed, “It was like, ‘Wow, there’s Mick [Jagger]! Ooh, there’s Keith [Richards]! Woah, there’s Ronnie [Wood]!’ It was exciting. It was really good."

And Sir Paul particularly enjoyed the recording session because there wasn't as much pressure on him as there is for his own records, saying, "A great thing is all I had to do was play bass and not make mistakes, so it was good.”

The Yesterday singer also enjoyed seeing the group working out the structure of the song during the session.

“I could hear Keith as we did various takes, working his lick out that ended up on the album, and Ronnie working his solo out, Mick working the vocal out,” he recalled.

“So yeah, I went home that day, and I’m saying to everyone, ‘I just played with The Stones!’ I was glad I wasn’t blasé about it. It’s really exciting. Not everyone plays with The Stones!” Sir Paul McCartney confessed as he admitted how elated he was to work with The Rolling Stones.