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And your turd can sing.
Paul McCartney and his then-wife Linda McCartney reportedly mailed a music critic their baby daughter’s turd following a negative concert review in the early 1970s.
Wings drummer Denny Seiwell, who performed with the “Maybe I’m Amazed” singer after the Beatles broke up in 1970, recalled the surprising incident in McCartney’s newly released book “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run.”
“So, okay, we take [the critic] along to the sound check. We let him backstage,” Seiwell, 82, began in the oral history book, which released Tuesday. “We let him on the bus. We let him see how we live and all that. He didn’t stay for the concert. He flew home.”
But despite not attending the Wings concert, the critic reportedly still wrote up a “full-on review” of the show.
“And he slagged it. Everything about it,” the “Jet” drummer continued. “The way we lived. The way we traveled. The way we sounded, the way we da-dada-dada.”
The McCartneys, meanwhile, decided to send the music reviewer a little gift in the mail, compliments of their then-baby daughter, Stella.
“Stella was a baby at the time,” Seiwell claimed in the new book. “So Paul and Linda took one of those little plastic soap dishes from the hotel we were in, and they got one of Stella’s turds, put it in the soap dish, wrapped it up, and sent it to him.”
“You heard that from me. I don’t care if they want it to be known or not,” he added. “I thought it was the perfect response to a crude British pressman.”
The Post has reached out to McCartney’s reps for comment.
The “And Your Bird Can Sing” bassist and Linda tied the knot in March 1969. They welcomed three kids during their marriage: daughter Mary, 56, daughter Stella, 54, and son James, 48.
McCartney also adopted Linda’s daughter, Heather, 62, from her previous marriage to Joseph Melville See Jr.
Linda, however, tragically passed away from breast cancer on April 17, 1998. She was 56.
The couple had formed Wings in 1971 shortly after McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr went their separate ways following the end of the Beatles.
Originally made up of the “Yesterday” singer, Linda, Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine, the group was active until 1981.
Stella McCartney, now a successful fashion designer, opened up about her famous parents and how they influenced her own career in “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run.”
“I was obsessed with my parents’ influence, and I literally always look at images of them from the archives,” she explained. “All of my degree shows at Central Saint Martins, my work with Chloé and my work today is still influenced by their style.”
“I’m lucky enough to have some of those pieces, and I feel like I’m safeguarding them for the future generations,” Stella added.
Elsewhere in the newly released Wings book, McCartney recalled the final phone call he shared with Lennon before the “Imagine” singer’s murder in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. He was 40.
“That is a nice thing, a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out,” the “Hey Jude” writer shared.
“But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn’t have any kind of blowup,” he continued. “One of the great blessings in my life is that we made up.”
As for the phone call itself, McCartney revealed that he and Lennon had a “very happy conversation” about their respective families.
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