NME recently talked to Paul McCartney about modern day artists he would like to collaborate with. Among those he named was Thom Yorke. He revealed in the interview that he would be nervous to call up the Radiohead/Atoms for Peace frontman. Yes, former Beatle, the Macca, is afraid to be rejected by Yorke.
"My daughter Stella is very keen. She's got a project, she keeps saying to me, 'Ring Thom and just go into the studio and just see what you come out with.'" McCartney told them. "I'm a bit sort of paranoid to just ring him up. 'Hey Thom, it's Paul here. What do you fancy, what are you doing? Do you fancy writing something?' Just in case he says, 'Er, actually I'm busy'."
Apparently, Yorke has said no to him before. According to Consequence of Sound, McCartney wanted Yorke to play piano for the track "Mr. Bellamy" on Memory Almost Full. Although Yorke did have a good - humble, really - reason for declining.
"Uhh, 'cause I can't play piano," he told the Observer. "Not like that... I really liked the song, but the piano playing involved two hands doing things separately. I don't have that skill available. I said to him, 'I strum piano, that's it.'"
We hope for the sake of humanity that these two do some day collaborate. At the very least, he needs to pursue the idea to work with Bob Dylan, which he had mention during his #AskMacca Twitter Q&A.
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