Maybe I'm Amazed

"Maybe I'm Amazed" is a song written by Paul McCartney that was first released on his McCartney album on April 17, 1970. Although the studio version from the album McCartney was never released as a single, it still remains one of McCartney's most treasured songs. Originally, McCartney dedicated the song to his wife, Linda, who had helped him during the break-up of the Beatles.

1 History
2 Sample
3 Covers
4 Cultural references
5 References

[edit] History

McCartney wrote the song in 1969, just after The Beatles' breakup. He credited his wife Linda with helping him get through the difficult time. This is one of the four songs that he wrote for her, the other three being "I Will", "The Lovely Linda" and "My Love".

The original studio version of the song ended with a fade instead of a full ending, but McCartney later composed an ending that can be heard on the live versions of the song. A live recording from the 1976 album Wings over America was released as a single by McCartney's band Wings on February 4, 1977 and became a top 10 hit in the United States, peaking at #10 on the singles chart. Versions of the song can be heard on several other live McCartney albums including Back in the U.S. and Back in the World. "Maybe I'm Amazed" has become a centrepiece of McCartney's concerts, along with "Band on the Run" and "Live and Let Die".

Regarded as one of McCartney's finest love songs, it achieved the #338 position in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004, and is the only solo McCartney song to make the list.^[1]

[edit] Sample

"Maybe I'm Amazed"
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[edit] Covers

"Maybe I'm Amazed" has been covered by:

The Faces on their 1971 album Long Player.
Petula Clark on her 1971 album Warm and Tender.
Tom Scott on his 1982 album Desire.
Elkie Brooks on her 1993 album Inspiration.
Black Oak Arkansas on their Live on the King Biscuit Flower Hour 1976 album released in 1998.
Carleen Anderson on her Blessed Burden album released in 1998.
Cyndi Lauper and Heart live in 2000 during the Women Rock! Girls & Guitars concert showed on Lifetime Television.
Jem on the B-side of single They (Part 1) in 2004.
Joe Cocker on his 2004 album Heart and Soul.
Gov't Mule in 2005 ^[2].
Morse, Portnoy & George on their 2006 album Cover to Cover.
A.J. Croce on his 2006 album Cantos.
Sandi Shaw (1971), single, B Side of "Rose Garden"

[edit] Cultural references

The song was featured in an episode of the The Simpsons entitled "Lisa the Vegetarian", in which Paul and Linda McCartney were both guest stars. In the episode, Paul helps Lisa become a vegetarian and tells her that playing "Maybe I'm Amazed" backwards will reveal a secret recipe for lentil soup. The song then plays over the closing credits of that episode, and by listening carefully, listeners can hear the backwards message. The backmasking on the track was accomplished by the staff of the show for this particular episode and does not appear in the original song.