Coming Up (song)

Coming Up (song)

"Coming Up" is a song written and performed by Paul McCartney. It is the opening track on his second solo album McCartney II, released in 1980. Like the rest of the album, the song had a minimalist synthesized feel to it. It featured vocals sped up by using vari-speed tape machine. McCartney played all the instruments and shared harmonies with his wife Linda McCartney.

In Rolling Stone McCartney said the song started out with just a drum track "and just built on it bit by bit". He said he did not have any idea of what the song was going to end up like. He added guitars, then bass, then increased the backing track. He then wondered what he was going to do for the vocals. It was here he used the vari-speed machine plus vocals through an echo machine.

John Lennon liked the song, crediting it for driving him out of retirement to resume recording.