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   CLUB SANDWICH 68

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SUE’S LETTER

            This holiday issue of Club Sandwich wraps up a year positively bursting with activity and major events for Paul, Linda and the Band. As I write, they're in Japan on the final leg of the New World Tour and are about to head off to Latin America. They return home just in time for Christmas.
            It's hard to believe that it all began as far back as February, with the public rehearsal show in London for which the Fun Club gave away the prized tickets. So, in an effort to summarise these packed 12 months, we've put together THEY CAME YOUR WAY IN '93 (parodying the piece "Coming Your Way In '93" in the Christmas '92 Club Sandwich). As you'll see, it's really been some year!
            Featuring a selection of photos from the European leg in the autumn, this issue continues to celebrate the New World Tour - although not quite to its conclusion. (Deadlines are such that we must save that for the Spring '94 Club Sandwich.) In his inimitable style, Geoff Baker summarises what it's all meant to him in THE BOY DONE GREAT.
            For those fortunate enough to have caught a show on the New World Tour, and for the unfortunate ones who didn't, there is now the opportunity to re-live the event through the fabulous PAUL IS LIVE album, issued worldwide in November. It features seventy-seven minutes of great music, the tracks personally chosen by Paul so as not to duplicate unnecessarily the songs on Tripping The Live Fantastic. Play them back-to-back and you'll have 215 minutes of fabulous music from the World and New World Tours right in your own living room.
            As we've already covered the live music pretty thoroughly over the past few issues our focus for the Paul Is Live album is its attention-grabbing cover. Even if you haven't yet seen the album you can't have missed the front-page of this Sandwich, showing Paul in a 1993 re-creation of the famous Abbey Road sleeve. Or does it? In the mysteriously titled 1969 + 24 - 4 + 1 + A DOG = 1993 we reveal all.
            Linda continues to amaze us with the range of her talents. THAT'S A WRAP, EVERYONE tells the story of how Linda has extended the use of her photography to the fashion world through the launch, this autumn, of her unique and beautiful Natural Perpectives collection of scarves and wraps for Timney-Fowler. One of the techniques involved in producing some of the scarves - devore - creates a particularly dramatic effect. Although, at this initial stage, the range is limited to a few stores, early indications point to an expansion in the Spring...and who knows where it will go from there?
            We also turn our attention to the latest edition of an annual institution -the Linda McCartney Calendar. Proceeds from sales of the 1994 edition, in common with so many before it, will go to a specific charity -this year it's the British Dyslexia Association.
            We round off the issue with a look at an exciting range of alternative footwear for the Eco-conscious in AND IN THE GREEN CORNER (truly, no shortage of gift ideas this year!) and dip into the film and video archive once again for a look back at the promos produced for 'Mull Of Kintyre' 16 years ago.
            Our latest sighting of Paul, back on home ground before his and the Band's departure for Japan, was at the annual BMI Awards dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in London on 4 November, where he received recognition for some utterly mind-boggling achievements (see below). Before this issue will have reached you he'll doubtless have been breaking yet more records down in South America...but until we return with news of what they might be it's time to sign off for another year.
            It only remains for me to bid you happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at Club Sandwich, and may your 1994 be a happy and healthy one.

'til next time
Sue


It looks as though it's here to stay

            Even for a man used to breaking records, to have written America's Most Performed Song is quite an achievement. Along with Linda, Paul was on hand at the recent BMI Awards dinner in London to accept a medal marking the fact that 'Yesterday' has been broadcast more than six million times on US radio and TV, 212,000 of them in 1992 alone. If you add in the Canadian figure the North American total becomes equivalent to non-stop broadcasting of the song for all of the 28 years since it was first released. Paul also collected certifications for two million US broadcasts of 'A Hard Day's Night' and one million of 'I Saw Her Standing There'.

Club Sandwich 68