I like it better than original by far! Rick Linville

I bought a copy of the second issue of the English album just to get this version of the tune. other than boots this is the only place I know to get it. For more info on this see: http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcsd103.html.

Press has a really special place in my heart. It was the first Beatle related release to come out after I had become a mega-fan. I can vaguely remember enjoying Watching the Wheels when I was 6, I loved the Milk and Honey singles as well, but just as a little boy, casual music listener. Likewise, I went to see Give my Regards to Broadstreet in the theater and recall hearing No More Lonely Nights on KISS FM (LA's stalwart Pop radio station) - which means I was still listening to pop radio. The Spies Like Us video is forever ingrained in my memory too, but more due to Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd than Paul. But by the time we get to Press to Play I was a Beatle maniac. I can remember the announcement that MTV was soon to air a new McCartney video. I was basically counting down the hours. I was utterly psyched. I loved just being alive at the same time that McCartney was.

Ultimately I felt that Press was probably a poor single. I loved Press to Play and played the album out (Move Over Busker, in my mind's ear, is absolutely incomplete without the scratch in the 3rd verse where my stylus would hiccup) but there were way better songs on it than Press. It was a lot of fun to listen to this track again, I'm quite glad they rejected that strange Edge-like delayed guitar bit. PTP is overly maligned by Paul's fans. It is a solid album, granted that it has way too many 80's sounds and sensibilities to make it a stand alone classic album. Dylan did that too with a couple releases. It is always a lazy daydream of mine that some days these guys will have a go at those 80's tapes. Imagine what a great drummer and a B3 organist(to replace all of those creepy Yamaha DX7 pads) would do to these records. Why not? It would be a relatively easy and cheap project.