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A collaboration between Sir Paul McCartney and Kanye West might have seemed unlikely, but their single FourFiveSeconds, which also featured Rihanna, became a major hit.

The song reached Number Four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts in the UK, Australia, France, and several other countries.

Reflecting on the 2014 recording session, McCartney said: “I was tootling around on guitar, and Kanye spent a lot of time just looking at pictures of Kim [Kardashian] on his computer. I’m thinking, ‘Are we ever gonna get around to writing?!’ But it turns out he was writing. That’s his muse.

“He was listening to this riff I was doing and obviously he knew in his mind that he could use that, so he took it, sped it up and then somehow he got Rihanna to sing on it. She’s a big favourite of mine anyway, so that just came without me lifting a finger.”