Deep Purple's co-founding drummer Ian Paice looked back at his 1999 stint recording and performing with Paul McCartney. Paice, who had never met “Macca” before the Run Devil Run sessions, had been a longtime close friend of George Harrison.
Run Devil Run, which also featured Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on guitar, consisted primarily of deep-cut 1950's covers with a few new songs thrown into the mix. The sessions marked McCartney's first since the 1998 death of wife Linda McCartney.
Paice recalled being tapped by McCartney for the gig, telling Classic Rock: “I got the call: 'Would you like to do the date at Abbey Road?' What do you say? I went in on the Monday morning knowing full well that if it was crap I wouldn’t be there on Tuesday. And the whole thing was done in five days, like the Beatles did their early stuff — 10 a.m. til 5:30 p.m., one o'clock stop for lunch.”