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Paul slams 'boring' record label
15/12/2007 21:25 - (SA)
London - Sir Paul McCartney has branded EMI Records "really very boring".
The Beatles legend left the label after 45 years earlier this year because he found EMI so uninspiring.
Paul said: "Everybody at EMI had become a part of the furniture. I'd be a couch, Coldplay are an armchair. And Robbie Williams, I dread to think what he was.
"But the most important thing was, I'd felt they had become really boring. And I dreaded going to see them."
The Memory Almost Full singer claims EMI had become "mind-numbingly predictable".
He explained: "I could guess what they were going to say, 'Love your record, Paul' and I'd say, 'Well, what should we do with it?' Then they'd go, 'Well we think you should go to Cologne', which is what they always say.
"This idea became symbolic of the treadmill. It's mind-numbing. So I started saying, 'God, we've got to do something else.' "
Paul, who became the first act to sign to coffee chain Starbucks's new record label, claims tearful Starbucks record executives won him over.
He said: "One of my new songs You tell Me came on and one of the team started crying. It was weird. I thought, Oh this is real feedback.' "
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