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INSPIRATION

Seeking out the spark behind the song

The origin of 'Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)' on Band On The Run

Club Sandwich 73
from Time, 23 April 1973. © Time Inc


WRITE AWAY
Your chance to get questions answered

            Q
            I recently saw a video of Paul singing 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' and 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy', and playing a short instrumental jam on stage with an unknown band. (Unknown to me, at least.) The announcer spoke in Italian. Could you please tell me what this TV programme was and when it was recorded?
            Andrea Barany, Hungary
Club Sandwich 73

            This would be Paul's appearance on The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross, broadcast live, as it happened, on Channel 4 in the UK on 27 November 1987. (Incidentally, from the same studio where Paul had made the 'Coming Up' video seven years earlier, as featured in this issue's Video Archive piece.) Paul went on the show to promote All The Best! and its single 'Once Upon A Long Ago' but opted to perform the two old rock numbers which could be found on the B-sides of the 'OUALA' twelve-inch singles. Paul was backed by Ross's "house band", led by Steve Nieve, keyboard player with Elvis Costello's Attractions. We're at a loss to explain the Italian connection (although Jonathan Ross's English can sometimes be open to interpretation!) but suspect that the show was sold to Italian TV by C4.

            Q
            There is a lot of blank tape at the end of my copy of Off The Ground. I'm wondering if this is where 'Big Boys Bickering' would have gone and, if so, why certain copies of the cassette are missing that song. I've never had a chance to hear it.
            Mary Little, Washington, USA

            While there is indeed a good deal of empty tape at the end of the Off The Ground cassette this is not because a song was left out at the last moment. Quite simply, it was decided to put eight of the album's 12 songs on side A of the tape, leaving only the remaining four for side B, whereas on the vinyl album the songs were divided six a side. It had long been decided that 'Big Boys Bickering' would not form a part of Off The Ground but would instead be issued on the 'Hope Of Deliverance' single.

            Qx2 Club Sandwich 73
            Where was the lovely shot of Paul on back cover of the Summer 1994 Club Sandwich taken?
            Jim Trawicki, Texas, USA

            I guess the picture on the back cover of CS70 was taken in Italy. If I am right, where?
            Daniel Ingusci, Italy

            Quite right, Daniel - you can clearly spot a buena vista when you see one. Funnily enough, we're not certain ourselves precisely where it was taken but we think it was either Rome or Milan in October 1989, when the World Tour visited Italy.

            Q
            I've read a couple of books which mention that Paul hosted a BBC show on 26 December 1973 called Disney Time. I would like to know more about it, and if fans will ever be able to view it.
            Denise Cohn, New Jersey, USA

            For our overseas readers we should explain that Disney Time is something of an institution on British television, with an edition broadcast every national holiday for four decades, the compilation of favourite moments from Walt's classic films ensuring a sizeable viewing audience, children and adults alike (and often together). So it was quite an honour for Paul and Linda to be invited to host the Boxing Day 1973 edition. The programmes are not repeated, so the McCartneys' contribution has not been seen for more than 21 years now, and while it might be foolish to say "never" it seems highly unlikely that the programme would ever be commercially issued on video.

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SPRING CROSSWORD

Club Sandwich 73 ACROSS
1. Faithful sort of piano? (7)
5. Orsino's food of love (5)
8. Antic, jape (5)
9. Regularly occuring melody (7)
10. Tortilla left in broken-down hacienda? (9)
12. Flightless bird (3)
13. Nursery for very young children (6)
14. English county and a horse-drawn four wheeled carriage (6)
17. Section of a curve (3)
18. Shakespeare's dream-time? (9)
20. 16th President of the USA (7)
21. Background actor (5)
23. Songs, music etc for a film or stage-show (5)
24. Painted backcloths in a theatre (7)
DOWN
1. Pawnbroker? (5)
2. Style of rock music with a strong beat and words recited rather than sung (3)
3. Food decoration (7)
4. Scottish plaid pattern to denote clan (6)
5. Sicilian secret organisation (5)
6. Percussion instrument fitted with wires that produce rattling sound (5-4)
7. Period of 100 years (7)
11. In music, a gradual increase in loudness (9)
13. Ray _____, blind American singer and pianist (7)
15. Stringed instrument which, in Hawaiian, means jumping flea (7)
16. Handsome youth loved by Aphrodite (6)
18. North American elk (5)
19. With preparations complete (5)
22. Terminal projection of foot (3)


SOLUTION TO THE CHRISTMAS MACCAGRAM

Club Sandwich 73

Hidden words: SILENT NIGHT