Calico Skies

"Calico Skies" is the sixth song on English musician Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

"Calico Skies"
Song by Paul McCartney
from the album Flaming Pie
Released5 May 1997
Recorded3 September 1992
StudioHog Hill, Sussex
GenreRock, folk rock
Length2:29
LabelParlophone (UK)
Capitol (US)
Songwriter(s)Paul McCartney
Producer(s)Paul McCartney, George Martin
Flaming Pie track listing
14 tracks
  1. "The Song We Were Singing"
  2. "The World Tonight"
  3. "If You Wanna"
  4. "Somedays"
  5. "Young Boy"
  6. "Calico Skies"
  7. "Flaming Pie"
  8. "Heaven on a Sunday"
  9. "Used to Be Bad"
  10. "Souvenir"
  11. "Little Willow"
  12. "Really Love You"
  13. "Beautiful Night"
  14. "Great Day"

McCartney had been staying on Long Island when the category-three storm Hurricane Bob that made landfall had hit in August 1991. This made McCartney sit with an acoustic guitar and write what he describes as "a gentle love song that becomes a 1960s protest song". The song was co-produced by George Martin and McCartney, being started, finished, and mixed within a single session on 3 September 1992 in Sussex, England. It is the earliest recording on Flaming Pie.

McCartney says of the song: "Bob” the hurricane, knocked out all the power; it was all candle-light, cooking on a woodfire. Very primitive, but we like that enforced simplicity. I couldn't play records, so I made up little acoustic pieces. This was one of them—it's a primitive little powercut memory."

"Calico Skies" was arranged for string quartet; this version was included on McCartney's 1999 album Working Classical. The song was also re-recorded for inclusion on the album Hope which was released in 2003 to aid victims of the Iraq War.

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