CLUB SANDWICH 68

THEY CAME YOUR WAY IN '93

Has there ever been a year as busy as this for Paul McCartney? Never a person one could accuse of being work-shy, he's just completing an annus mirabilis of exceptional activity. Just take a look at this lot...

            MUSIC ISSUED IN 1993...
            ALL MY LOVING on Paul Is Live
            BIG BOYS BICKERING on the Hope Of Deliverance single
            BIKER LIKE AN ICON studio version on Off The Ground also a single [not all territories] live version on Paul Is Live
            C'MON PEOPLE studio version on Off The Ground studio version also a single (DJs given a 'Radio Edit' version too) live version on Paul Is Live
            COSMICALLY CONSCIOUS shorter version on Off The Ground longer version on the single Off The Ground [not all territories]
            DELIVERANCE a "club" twelve-incher, then (in edited form) a proper release, then on the C'mon People single
            DELIVERANCE (DUB MIX) a "club" twelve-incher, then (in edited form) a proper release, then on the C'mon People single
            DOWN TO THE RIVER on the C'mon People single
            DRIVE MY CAR on Paul Is Live
            A FINE DAY on Paul Is Live
            GET OUT OF MY WAY on Off The Ground
            GOLDEN EARTH GIRL on Off The Ground
            GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT on Paul Is Live
            HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE on Paul Is Live
            HOPE OF DELIVERANCE studio version on Off The Ground studio version also a single live version on Paul Is Live
            HOTEL IN BENIDORM on Paul Is Live
            I CANT IMAGINE on the C'mon People single
            I OWE IT ALL TO YOU on Off The Ground
            I WANNA BE YOUR MAN on Paul Is Live
            KANSAS CITY on Paul Is Live
            KEEP COMING BACK TO LOVE on the C'mon People single
            KICKED AROUND NO MORE on the Hope Of Deliverance single
            LADY MADONNA on Paul Is Live
            LET ME ROLL IT on Paul Is Live
            LIVE AND LET DIE on Paul Is Live
            LONG LEATHER COAT on the Hope Of Deliverance single
            LOOKING FOR CHANGES studio version on Off The Ground live version on Paul Is Live
            THE LOVERS THAT NEVER WERE on Off The Ground
            MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR on Paul Is Live
            MEAN WOMAN BLUES
            from Unplugged TV special, 1991, issued for the first time with the Biker Like An Icon single [not all territories]
            MICHELLE on Paul Is Live
            MIDNIGHT SPECIAL from Unplugged TV special, 1991, issued for the first time with the Biker Like An Icon single [not all territories]
            MISTRESS AND MAID on Off The Ground
            MY LOVE on Paul Is Live
            OFF THE GROUND on Off The Ground also a single [not all territories; also, DJs given 'radio remixes' by Keith Cohen/Larry Walsh and Bob Clearmountain]
            PAPERBACK WRITER on Paul Is Live
            PEACE IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD studio version on Off The Ground live version on Paul Is Live
            PENNY LANE on Paul Is Live
            ROBBIE'S BIT on Paul Is Live
            SOGGY NOODLE on the single Off The Ground [not all territories]
            STYLE STYLE on the single Off The Ground [not all territories]
            SWEET SWEET MEMORIES on the single Off The Ground [not all territories]
            THINGS WE SAID TODAY from Unplugged TV special, 1991, issued for the first time with the Biker Like An Icon single [not all territories]
            WE CAN WORK IT OUT on Paul Is Live
            WELCOME TO SOUNDCHECK on Paul Is Live
            WINEDARKOPEN SEA on Off The Ground

            and there was...

            The New World Sampler (a 17 track compilation, 1970-1993, for US DJs) The Paul McCartney Collection Sampler (an 18 track compilation, 1970-1989, for UK DJs)

            The 16 remastered back-catalogue albums (228 tracks on the CDs/cassettes of McCartney, Ram, Wings Wild Life, Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, Wings At The Speed Of Sound, London Town, Wings Greatest, Back To The Egg, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes Of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play and Flowers In The Dirt)

            "Gold" DCC compact discs issued in the USA of McCartney, Ram and Band On The Run

            ...and, still, this may not have been everything...

            PLUS THE TV SPECIALS...
            Up Close
            Movin' On (also issued on video in some territories)
            The Making Of C'mon People
            The concert from Charlotte, North Carolina
            Paul McCartney Live

            PLUS THE PROMO VIDEOS...
            Hope Of Deliverance (two similar versions)
            Deliverance - The Remix
            Off The Ground
            C'mon People
            Get Out Of My Way
            Biker Like An Icon (four versions)

            and the pre-concert triple-screen film
            and the press conferences and the photo shoots and the radio and television appearances and the LI PA planning meetings and the year's batch of new compositions not yet recorded and the latest writing sessions with Carl Davis

            and the "little" matter of some 79 concerts in 19 countries in 9 months.

            ALL OF WHICH...

            makes the following extract from a new book entitled An A to Z Of British Life (Oxford University Press) seem absurd, inept, ludicrous, preposterous, wildly inaccurate and, moreover, wrong -

            "McCartney, Paul... he has now semi-retired from the world of pop music...".

            Oh, really?