“Sunday Rain” is the Foo Fighters song featuring Paul McCartney on drums. It appears on Concrete and Gold, the band’s ninth studio album, released in 2017.
The track is unusual within the Foo Fighters catalog because McCartney, best known as the Beatles’ bassist and singer-songwriter, contributed the drum performance rather than vocals or bass. Dave Grohl reportedly presented the song to McCartney acoustically, and McCartney recorded drum parts after hearing that stripped-down version. His contribution became one of the album’s most notable guest appearances.
“Sunday Rain” is also distinctive because Taylor Hawkins sings lead vocals on the studio recording. Grohl plays guitar, while the rest of the band contributes alongside McCartney, with Greg Kurstin handling production and keyboard-related parts. The song’s classic-rock feel makes the McCartney connection especially fitting, but the guest appearance is specifically on drums.
A frequent mix-up is confusing McCartney’s role here with his appearance on “Cut Me Some Slack,” another Foo Fighters-related collaboration. For this question, the canonical answer is “Sunday Rain.”