"Songs written by Paul McCartney" . . "George Martin" . "false"^^ . . "Paul McCartney" . "Music published by MPL Music Publishing" . "Calico Skies" . "5714dedf25ac0d8aee4d880f" . . . "Calico Skies" . "eng" . "1992-09-03" . "34e156ec-9c5e-49bd-8824-b5ad2e130815" . . . "Paul McCartney" . "-0.312176"^^ . "1997-05-05"^^ . . "Parlophone" . "-9.8"^^ . "false"^^ . "english" . "%22Calico Skies%22 is the sixth song on Paul McCartney's 1997 album, Flaming Pie.McCartney had been staying in Long Island when the category-three storm Hurricane Bob that made landfall had hit in August 1991. This made McCartney sit with an acoustic guitar and write what he describes as %22a gentle love song that becomes a 1960s protest song%22. The song was co-produced by George Martin and McCartney, being started, finished, and mixed within a single session on 3 September 1992 in Sussex, England. It is the earliest recording on Flaming Pie.McCartney says of the song:%22Bob, the hurricane, knocked out all the power; it was all candle-light, cooking on a woodfire. Very primitive, but we like that enforced simplicity. I couldn't play records, so I made up little acoustic pieces. This was one of them - it's a primitive little powercut memory.%22%22Calico Skies%22 was also re-recorded for inclusion on the album Hope which was released in 2003 to aid victims of the Iraq war." . "false"^^ . "Paul McCartney songs" . "19"^^ . . "-0.143782"^^ . "157000.0"^^ . "1446" . "128.0"^^ . . "316818"^^ . . "6"^^ . . "Capitol Records" . "2012-04-24"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Paul McCartney" . "1997 songs" . "Song recordings produced by George Martin" . "GBCCS0201311" . . . . . "18224921" .