David Spinozza on working on Ram with Paul:

Linda didn’t have much to do in the stu­dio, she just took care of the kids. The kids were there all the time, ev­ery day. They brought the whole fam­ily ev­ery day to the stu­dio and they stayed no mat­ter how long Paul stayed. If he was there at four o’clock in the morn­ing, ev­ery­body stayed. I thought to a cer­tain de­gree, it was dis­tract­ing. It was a nice, loose at­mos­phere, but dis­tract­ing. I re­ally don’t know what Linda did in the stu­dio aside from just sit there and make her com­ments on what she thought was good and what she thought was bad. She sang all right. I heard some of the things she sang on the al­bum and she sings fine, like any girl that worked in a High School glee club. She can hold a note and sing back­ground. Paul gives her a note and says, ‘Here Linda, you sing this and I’m go­ing to sing this,’ and she does… There’s one track, which is a cute thing, a blues tune, which I think has a pretty unique sound and I had fun do­ing ‘3 Legs’. Paul likes to dou­ble track a lot of things. We both played acous­tic on some tracks and then tripled. Some­times Paul played pi­ano but he never played bass while we were there. He over­dubbed the bass. It was a lit­tle weird, be­cause bass, drums and gui­tar would have been more com­fort­able, but that’s the way he works … Work­ing with Paul was fun, in as much as it was good to see how he works and where he’s com­ing from. But as a mu­si­cian, it wasn’t fun, be­cause it wasn’t chal­leng­ing or any­thing like that. But it was very good. Paul is def­i­nitely a song­writer, not a mu­si­cian, but he writes beau­ti­ful songs. In the stu­dio he’s in­cred­i­bly prompt and busi­nesslike. No smok­ing pot, no drinks, or car­ry­ing on, noth­ing. Just straight-ahead. He came in at nine in the morn­ing. We were all there and we would lis­ten to what we had done be­fore so that it would get us psyched ready to do the day’s work, then we went into the stu­dio and it was eight hours of just play­ing. He’s not a very loose cat, not ec­cen­tric in any way at all. Very much of a fam­ily man. He just wants to make good mu­sic.

[—from The Bea­t­les: Off the Record 2 - The Dream is Over, Keith Badman]