Temporary Secretary
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Temporary Secretary
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It’s like a disposable secretary, and it struck me as being funny. The song is written from the point of view of a fellow who just wants a disposable secretary, and he’s writing to a bureau to try and get one. I just like the idea. I just thought it was funny, you know, asking for a temporary secretary rather than a secretary. That sound on the track, which is like a space typewriter, is a sequence machine. I used that to give me a tempo and, again, I just made the song up as I went along. It was a little influenced by Ian Dury. – [x]
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Published: 26 March 2011 | Last updated: 14 July 2021
I actually know because I just tried to find out recently… I thought that I had one but it turns out I rented it. It’s an ARP sequencer, but we’ve just found one. Wix, my keyboard guy, has just found one so we might have one soon. We looked at the modern versions but the old one is better, and also I kind of know my way around it.
I did have temporary secretaries. After I left Apple I still had business stuff coming up, so in trying to figure out how I could cope with that there were a couple of times I just grabbed someone to just put my letters in order and help. But that track isn’t about a specific person. What it’s about is, there was a guy called Alfred Marks, he had the Alfred Marks Bureau – he had the same name as a comedian on the radio when I was growing up. So it was just the funny paradox of seeing adverts for the Alfred Marks Bureau, the idea of some comedian having a bureau was just funny. It said ‘Temporary Secretary’, and I thought, that’s a kind of funky thought. Then there was the secretary thing: take a letter Miss Smith, sit on my lap… all that kind of stuff.
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Written by: McCartney Recorded: June-July 1979 Producer: Paul McCartney
Released: 16 May 1980 (UK), 26 May 1980 (US)
Paul McCartney : vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums
The second track on Paul McCartney ’s second solo album, ‘Temporary Secretary’ was recorded in the summer of 1979. Its largely atonal vocals and repetitive chorus divided audiences, but encapsulated the experimental nature of McCartney II .
‘Temporary Secretary’ was written from the point of view of a girl from a temping agency, a theme inspired by the typewriter-like rhythmic effects of synthesizer, guitar and drums. McCartney later described the sound as resembling a “space typewriter”. The middle section, meanwhile, was reportedly influenced by Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
That sound on the track, which is like a space typewriter, is a sequence machine. I used that to give me a tempo and, again, I just made the song up as I went along. It was a little influenced by Ian Dury.
McCartney used an analogue ARP sequencer on the track.
The Mr Marks of the lyrics referred to the founder of the Alfred Marks Agency, a UK recruitment company which provided office staff for businesses. The agency subsequently applied to use the song in an advertising campaign, but the idea was rejected by McCartney.
‘Temporary Secretary’ was issued as a 12″ single in the UK, along with the 10-minute b-side ‘Secret Friend’. Limited to 25,000 copies, the single was released as Parlophone 12 R 6039 on 15 September 1980, and sold out in just 16 hours.
The front cover featured a drawing by Jeff Cummins of Hipgnosis, and depicted a secretary sitting on McCartney’s lap. On the other side was a photograph of the singer taken by David Thorpe.
Let me be the first to say that this is one of my very least liked songs in the McCartney collection as well as the one of the least liked songs of all time. It scrapes like fingernails on a chalkboard. Paul admits with an ‘aw-shucks’ posturing, ‘I just made it up as I went along’. I agree. It sounds like it. The problem I’ve always had with Paul is that he has the talent and prolific gift to keep putting out the tunes – and he does without much of a care and expects us to buy it? Yeah, I know – I could also NOT buy it. Since I have been around since the very beginning it has always been my disappointment that John’s and Paul’s solo careers would frequently convey a lack of respect for the audience. In Paul’s case, to stay on point here, this song. Terrible lyrics – not the worst ever for him – but ultimately lame. ‘She can be a diplomat but I don’t need a girl like that’ etc. Ugh!
Let me be the next to say that I love this freaky song. Partially because it pisses off Beatles ‘purists,’ and screw those guys. I love the Beatles just as much when they’re goofing off. They can goof with the best of them. He was probably high as hell and having a lot of fun. The whole McCartney II album is like that, which is why its one of my fave Macca solo releases. It’s like you went back to some guy’s dorm room in college, and he played you some of his home recordings. Except the guy is Paul McCartney. It’s pretty ballsy for the guy that wrote “Yesterday” to unleash such a strange beast as McCartney II on the world. It’s a kind of private sketch book, but since he’s, you know, who he is, it got as much attention as any other record he ever put out. Actually, I think Ween got their entire career from this one album.
You don’t have to be a “purist” to dislike this track. But I don’t say “screw you” to you because you like this LP. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I used to think this song was so weird.. after listening to it for like 2 times, it is actually catchy, and gets stuck in my head
this track/album will always set paul apart as the beatle who really fully experimented beyond the rest. i can imagine most people on this website wont realise this but the Mccartney 2 LP pretty much predicted a shit load of incredible music in the next few decades, people like arthur russell, ariel pink and just about anyone else recording weird pop music in their bedrooms. long live paul!
I absolutely love this song!! Not for beatles fans
So much of Paul McCartney’s non-Wings solo output predicts 80s & 90s twee and indie rock. I can see why someone born in the 1940s might not love this song, but it’s way ahead of his time and very creative. I love it. I love that Paul didn’t want to spend his whole life pretending like 1969 never ended. I like McCartney, McCartney II, and Ram better than several Beatles albums.
I think McCartney’s second solo album was RAM.
That was credited to Paul and Linda McCartney.
And here is just everywhere else. People only talk about it as a music. They don’t care about the lyrics and the meaning of it. It is the song the really made me sad to see this chauvinist side of Paul. I know he had already showed it before but not so openly. The disrespect to the secretaries regarded only as dolls to please the guy sexually ( that i s what this song means) is shameful. To make it worse we can see Paul in the cover with a stupid girl on his lap. I love Paul so much. He doesn’t have to be perfect for me to love him. But there are some imperfections that are simply too much. As a woman I can’t accept it. Too bad I have never read anybody saying anything against it for this reason. I imagine Paul realized after a time his fans were not only girls. He does have lots of male fans. Some very chauvinists. So he decided to compose it to please this public. He loves to please everybody. But…the mud covered him too.
I am in my late 40s and did not see it that way, i think he was being ironic. And he was very much aware of how chauvinistic it sounded. It is not a straight up anthem to feminism, and it does not need to be what it does do though is seperate those who take everything in straight up value and those that listen for irony and humour at a kind of gross male attitude. I like this song way way bettert han the Beatles You better run for your life if you can little girl, that song creeps me out.
lyrics are lame? c’mon! she can be a neurosurgeon if she’s doin’ nothing’ urgent – isn’t it a cool line? i adore this song and everything paul did on mccartney 2. this is why i love him so much, he’s never afraid to experiment! he’s free and he’s just having fun
Ive always loved the Beatles but never listened to their solo output. My brother in law put this on a mixtape for me and I loved it but was certain it was a remix / cover, and was astonished to find it wasn´t. I love the song writing, the production and the lyrics which as others have said, feels so ahead of its time. Its dark, hypnotic and tells a story from a characters point of view (obviously; i never understand how people can miss that) but also so melodic. For me its not goofy or throw away at all as some have said, its up there with the best and more so in some ways because it was so original. Its this kind of instinct that put the Beatles ahead of their audiences and made them so influential and with such longevity, other great bands from their era – from The Hollies to the Stones – were great, but their evolution was far less expansive, and more short lived. The only other band of that era that I can think of that took so many risks and were so driven to evolve were The Kinks. I would love to hear of any suggestions though of songs or albums I may have missed where artists of that era tried to push the envelope and didnt get the recognition they should have at that time
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