So apparently Kanye West’s ‘All Day’ wasn’t created entirely during one of his and Paul McCartney’s unlikely recent jamming sessions, but rather it was conceptualised way back in 1999, with the former Beatle unveiling it during an appearance on UK talk show Parkinson.
Speaking to legendary British talk show host Michael Parkinson during one of his late ’90s BBC broadcasts, McCartney explains how he had devised a song that featured chords played using only two fingers. McCartney said he had taken the inspiration for the then-unnamed melody from a Picasso painting he saw in the hospital in which his second child was born, which depicted a man holding a guitar with only two fingers placed along its neck.
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Mimicking the chord the man was holding, McCartney then created a sweet tune from out of it, which as you can hear from the below clip, bears more than a passing resemblance to Kanye’s fiery ‘All Day’.
While the song may have progressed from a soothing acoustic number to a confrontational Earth-shaker, it’s still apparent that this two-fingered song formed the foundations of West’s lead-off track from his upcoming LP, which McCartney helped produce.
Watch the video below:
And here’s ‘All Day’ for comparison:
