![]() Pumer, who calls the series McCartney's "best-kept secret," says the singer has been working on Oobu Joobu for 20 years, often putting it on the back burner to tour or record another album. Pumer was then working as a producer at London's Capital Radio. Then it evolved into this," says Pumer, who was hired for the project in 1981 after Joe Reddington, McCartney's independent promotion man at the time, ran the idea past him. "Paul explained to me that he wanted to do a tiny, little late-night show. The title was inspired by a production of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Cocu on BBC Radio in London almost 30 years ago. On Oobu Joobu, you hear it as he was making it." "People never hear the makings of a final product, only the final product. "It's like being a fly on the wall in the private life of Paul McCartney," Pumer says. The series slightly resembles Westwood One's famed The Lost Lennon Tapes, but with the addition of the artist himself talking about the music. ![]()
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