19th June 1978 Paul and company attended aRolling Stones show at The Palladium, New York City.
Backstage was, as usual, a zoo. In some places, there were so many friends, it was difficult to get away and actually play. In New York, Paul and Linda McCartney came backstage and later joined me at my hotel. We sat around listening to music and chatted. The conversation got around to the fact that I carried a video recorder with me on tour to tape things off the TV. I played videos of early Beatles’ shows from the mid-1960s, which Paul himself had never seen.
(Bill Wyman – From “Rolling With The Stones“, 2003)
The Stones concert also prompted a subconscious creative outburst. “I woke up,” Paul recalled, “and I could remember dreaming that the Rolling Stones were onstage doing this amazing number called ‘No Values.’ It was a song I pictured them doing and it suited them down to the ground. And then I woke up and thought, ‘What’s that one?’ and they had never recorded it.” After discovering that ‘No Values’ was not a Jagger-Richards original, but rather something he had dreamt up, Paul noted the chord progression for a later date.
(The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974-1980 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair, 2024)
There are not many incidents in the film that I have actually dreamed myself, but this song I really did dream about. I was on holiday and just as I was waking up I was in a dream and I was watching the Rolling Stones. They were all there, Bill, Charlie, Keith and all the lads; and Mick was up there singing, “No values, seems to me that you’ve still got no values…” I couldn’t quite hear all the lyrics but I heard all the chorus and I woke up and thought I really like that song that they do. Then I thought, Hey, wait a minute – there is no song called “No Values”. They don’t do that song. My brain had just created it, or however it happens. So I thought well, there it is, I’ve got this new song called “No Values”, and I checked that the Stones really hadn’t done it, and just set about writing it. I haven’t told Mick Jagger – he’d probably claim the copyright!
(Paul McCartney – From the “Give My Regards To Broad Street” book, Pavilion Books, 1984)
On the darkest of nights we were two of a kind We went through it all before the tide went out And left us stranded on the shore How was I to know How was I to know Well you ain't got no values You know you think you're hot, no values
