I wanted to make a final update to readers who are awaiting the remastered release of Paul and Linda McCartney’s “Ram.” A couple of items that I did not mention in a previous post are also available with the various “Ram” packages available.

1) Vinyl single: This is a very limited addition item that was released on April 21st (2012) for Record Store Day. It is a reissue of Paul’s first single apart from The Beatles with “Another Day” on the A-side and “Oh Woman, Oh Why” on the B-side.

A listing of participating Record Store Day stores can be found here.

"Record Store Day" Another Day vinyl 7" single re-issue

2) Two digital-only bonus tracks will be available via paulmccartney.com and iTunes:

1. Eat At Home/Smile Away (Live)
2. Uncle Albert Jam

Track 1 was recorded live with Wings on August 19, 1972 at Groningen, Netherlands at Evenementenhal. The Wings line up at the time was Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell.

Other items previously mentioned include the (1) Standard album on CD, (2) Special Edition (with Bonus CD), (3) Deluxe Edition with bonus CD/Mono Album CD/Thrillington CD/bonus DVD, (4) Vinyl 2-LP set and (5) Mono VInyl.

Additional details about these formats (tracklisting, etc.) are available here.

Ram cover art, 1971

Amazon links for “Ram” packages:

1) RAM [Deluxe Book Edition] [4CD+1DVD]

2) RAM [Special Edition] 2-CD set (8-track bonus CD included)

3) RAM [Standard Edition]

4) RAM [Vinyl Edition] 2-LP set with 8 bonus tracks

5) RAM [Limited Edition Mono Vinyl Edition] – very limited mono vinyl LP

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This week BROW looks back at the early days of Paul McCartney & Wings. Paul chose to limit his band’s live performances to his home continent during these years and play smaller venues such as universities and town halls, allowing time to “build up” Wings and make a name for themselves by getting at least a couple hit albums under their belts before attempting anything on a larger scale. He certainly did not want to rely on his clout as a former Beatle to sell Wings to the world and refused to include any Beatles music in any of the concert setlists of 1972-1973. It wasn’t until after the highly successful fourth Wings album Venus And Mars that Wings toured outside of Europe with a short Australian tour that included 7 shows over the first two weeks of November 1975. It wasn’t until 1976 when Wings peppered the setlist with songs from their newest Wings At The Speed Of Sound album and did a full fledged North American/European world tour, which yielded the only live Wings album. This was actually a triple album set titled Wings Over America which gave us a good 2-hour sampling of the live performances from the 1976 shows, however they were somewhat “doctored up” after the fact.

For the period before Wings Over America, the only officially released live Wings performances would be two songs:

(1) a song called “The Mess” which was never released as a studio recording. The live performance was recorded at The Hague in Holland on August 21, 1972 and was issued as the b-side for the Wings single “My Love” in March 1973.

(2) a 1973 live Wings recording of the song “Wild Life” which appears over credits on the DVD set The McCartney Years.

Because of the deficit of commercially accessible early live recordings by Wings, I have occasionally put up something on TheBeatlesRarity to give us a taste of how they sounded back when they were playing the smaller shows and were still a new band (such as this one). This week’s BROW is another of those times. “Soily” is an all out rocker that was first heard on record as the last song on the Wings Over America LP set or the b-side to the “Maybe I’m Amazed” single taken from this set. It was part of Wings’ stage repertoire all the way back in 1972, however the only official account of it from the studio is from an unreleased film by Paul called One Hand Clapping and issued as bonus material on a DVD packaged with Paul’s recent deluxe edition of his Band On The Run album. The recording presented here dates from July 10, 1973, when Wings were performing at City Hall in Newcastle, U.K. Unlike in 1976, when “Soily” was the concluding encore performance, here it was the show opener. The Wings line up at the time included Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell.

Paul McCartney & Wings - Soily

Paul McCartney onstage

Extra info: In 1980 a VHS tape called Rockshow was released officially containing much of the same concert footage covered on the “Wings Over America” triple album. Although, it was never officially released to DVD, a portion of it is included on the DVD set The McCartney Years (Amazon link listed below).

Some Amazon links to read up on or purchase related items to this post:

1) Wings Over America – 2-CD set of Wings live in 1976, includes “Soily.”

2) The McCartney Years – 2007 3-DVD set compiling promo videos and live performances by Paul McCartney, including the years with Wings.

3) Band On The Run (2CD/2DVD) – 2010 Band On The Run 2 CD/2-DVD Archive Collection set. One of the bonus DVDs includes a studio version of “Soily” used in Paul’s unreleased film One Hand Clapping.

4) Amazon links for any of your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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Welcome to The Beatles Rarity Of The Week. There isn’t much to say about this week’s offering other than it is another of many Paul McCartney demos that never saw the light of day. This home recording of “Indeed, I Do” was most likely taped sometime between the Ram album (May 1971) and the first Wings album, Wild Life (Dec. 1971). Paul duets with his wife Linda while strumming an acoustic guitar. Linda announces take 1 at the start of the tape but after a minute and thirteen seconds this breaks down, followed by a second attempt which also falls short due to Paul not having the words to the verses worked out yet. Since they are apparently having a lot of fun with it (judging by the laughter), instead of letting this stop them, they cheerfully continue on for a few more minutes before shutting the recorder off. This is the only known recording of this particular track and it was probably soon forgotten over the years. Admittedly, if you asked me if I thought it might’ve been a hit, I would have to say “no”, but if you ask me if I think it’s interesting enough to spin up for this week’s BROW, I’d say “Indeed, I Do.”

Paul & Linda McCartney - Indeed, I Do

Paul & Linda McCartney

Some Amazon links to read up on or purchase related items to this post:

1) Ram 2012 Remastered Archive Collection Sets – 2012 Remastered versions of original 1971 Ram Lp, with plenty of bonus material – pre-order only until May 22, 2012

2) Ram 1999 CD remaster of original 1971 LP by Paul & Linda McCartney.

3) Wide Prairie – 2002 remastered collection of songs by Linda McCartney released posthumously.

4) Amazon links for any of your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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I’m going slightly off the beaten path for this week’s BROW, back to November 18, 1985, when a 12 inch vinyl single was released containing three considerably differing mixes of Paul McCartney’s theme song “Spies Like Us,” composed and recorded for the motion picture of the same name. The standard 7 inch single was also released on the same date in the U.S., timed to be out just over two weeks before the movie’s box office debut.

Most of us are probably somewhat familiar with the Spies Like Us movie which stars comedians Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, who play two American rookie intelligence agents sent to the Soviet Union, where they accidentally launch a nuclear missile on the United States.

The theme song was recorded in October 1985, during sessions for Paul’s upcoming Press To Play album. Paul not only sings but plays bass, guitar and drums on the track. The keyboards on the record are played by Eddie Rayner, a former player with the band Split Enz. Linda McCartney, Kate Robbins and Ruby James assist with backing vocals.

The 7 inch single featured another out-take as the b-side from the Wings Venus And Mars sessions (1975) called “My Carnival”. During the peak of the movie’s popularity the single reached #7 on the U.S. Billboard charts and to this date is Paul’s most recent top 10 single. “Spies Like Us” did not appear on an album until 1993 when it was included as a bonus track on the Press To Play CD issued as part of a series of CD remasters released that year called The Paul McCartney Collection.

The 12 inch single contains three alternate mixes of the song and even an extended version of “My Carnival”. None of these versions have been officially released since their initial issuance in November 1985. For this week’s BROW, I’m sharing with you one of these mixes labeled as the “party mix” on the record label. It clocks in at about 7 minutes and includes spoken audio segments from the film itself.

Spies Like Us 12 inch single, released in Nov. 1986

Extra info:
1) In the Spies Like Us film, the outro of the single version is heard over the closing credits before the entire song is played. The outro features the backing vocalists singing “spies like us” repeatedly along with the uptempo beat of the song.

2) Although this record has not been re-issued since its initial release over 26 years ago, used copies can be found if you look around at the right places online (I’ve included a possible alternative below – see #3 in list of Amazon links below).

Here are some Amazon links to read more on, or purchase, some music related to this post:

1) Press to Play 1993 remaster of original 1986 album release, contains 7 in. single version of “Spies Like Us” as a bonus track.

2) The McCartney Years 2007 3-DVD box set of Paul McCartney music videos and concert footage. 5.1 surround mixes included. Includes “Spies Like Us” (video edit).

3) Spies like Us (Party Mix) PROMO 12″ singleV-15212 – original 12 inch vinyl single containing the featured ‘party mix’ of “Spies Like Us” (Note: availability varies).

4) More Amazon links for any of your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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At 10pm EST on February 9, 2012 Paul McCartney will perform live to the world selections from his new album Kisses On The Bottom. The performance will take place at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California and be streamed free of charge exclusively on Itunes. This will be the first time any of the selections from this new release will be shared with the public in a live setting. Kisses On The Bottom was released only yesterday and is an interesting collection of standards Paul grew up listening to with his family. In fact, he learned many of them from his father playing them on the family piano. There are also two new McCartney compositions – “My Valentine” and “Only Our Hearts” (which feature guest appearances from both Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder). Both the album and streaming event will have Paul backed by Diana Krall and her band. Diana is a star in her own right with three Grammy Awards, eight Juno Awards, nine gold albums, three platinum albums, and seven multi-platinum albums. The deluxe version of the Kisses On The Bottom CD comes packaged with a download card of the this performance, that can be redeemed after the event. The standard CD contains 14 tracks but no download card. I should also point out that there are two versions of the deluxe CD. The first contains the standard CD plus the download and the second (available exclusively at Target stores in the U.S.) contains a 16-track CD that adds the two bonus tracks “My One And Only Love” and “Baby’s Request” (a new version of the Wing’s track from the 1979 album Back To The Egg). The complete track listing and additional info:

1. I’m Gonna Sit Down And Write Myself A Letter
2. Home (When Shadows Fall)
3. It’s Only A Paper Moon
4. More I Cannot Wish You
5. The Glory Of Love
6. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
7. Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
8. My Valentine
9. Always
10. My Very Good Friend The Milkman
11. Bye Bye Blackbird
12. Get Yourself Another Fool
13. The Inch Worm
14. Only Our Hearts
15. Baby’s Request (on some deluxe editions)
16. My One And Only Love (on some deluxe editions)

Paul McCartney – all lead vocals, acoustic guitar on tracks 12 & 13
Diana Krall band – all tracks
Stevie Wonder – harmonica on track 14
Eric Clapton – guitar on tracks 8 & 12
London Symphony Orchestra – tracks 2, 8, 9, 11 & 12
Tracks 8, 14 & 15 written by Paul McCartney

Cover art for Kisses On The Bottom, 2012

Amazon links related to this post:

1) Kisses on the Bottom (Deluxe) – Deluxe edition w/download card described above (but no bonus tracks – for bonus tracks version order from paulmccartney.com or buy from Target stores).

2) Amazon links for any of your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, The Beatles & Bournemouth" by Nick Churchill

I spent a little while chatting with Nick Churchill, formerly of the Daily Echo in Bournemouth, U.K., about his new book, about which I wrote a short article last month (viewable here). The book is titled Yeah Yeah Yeah – The Beatles & Bournemouth, and it came out last September (2011).

Bournemouth, as I’m sure many reading already know, is a resort town on the southern coast of England, and Nick’s book gives us a plethora of details about many historical events that link The Beatles to this beautiful British settlement.

In the previous article, I point out some of the interesting ties listed on the book’s back cover of Beatles happenings in Bournemouth. These include:

1) The Beatles played more theater shows at the Bournemouth Gaumont (16 in all) than any other concert venue in the U.K. outside of London, and a taping of one of their shows there is the earliest known recording of a theater performance by the group.

2) A gig at Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens Theater on November 16, 1963, was the source of footage used by all three U.S. television networks covering the new “Beatlemania” craze in Europe. The resulting Nov. 21st telecast predated the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show appearance by two and a half months.

3) The famous cover art photo used on the With The Beatles album was taken in Bournemouth by Robert Freeman in 1963.

4) George Harrison’s first Beatles song, “Don’t Bother Me,” was written while staying in Bournemouth.

5) The story told in the 1969 Beatles single “The Ballad of John and Yoko” began while John was traveling to Mimi’s house where he ended up “standing in the dock at Southampton.” John actually purchased this home for Mimi, near Bournemouth.

Yeah Yeah Yeah also has around 200 previously unpublished Beatles photos (many by the late Harry Taylor of the Bournemouth Times). The book’s forward is written by Howie Casey, a long time Liverpudlian friend of The Beatles who was in Howie & The Seniors in the sixties and toured with Paul McCartney and Wings in the seventies.

For more about Nick and his book, check out what he himself has to say, right here:

From the book: The Beatles at the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth in August, 1963

More about Nick’s book can be found on the blog
http://beatlesbournemouth.blogspot.com.

And the book can be ordered from the publisher’s website at
www.beatlesandbournemouth.com.

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I hope everyone celebrating had a great holiday weekend, and I thought what better way to begin the last week of the year than with another installment of the BROW? “BROW” stands for Beatles Rarity Of The Week, and my name is Happy Nat. Each week on Mondays, I try to serve up a rare Beatles-related track for you to listen to and read about, and if you happen to have stumbled upon this post on some other day of the year, well that’s fine too. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope it goes down well.

In the early days of Paul McCartney and Wings, right around December of 1971, the band convened for some sessions just after the release of their first album, Wild Life. The testy little instrumental that’s the subject of this week’s post was recorded at this time, and at one point was to be a b-side to the next (and first) Wings single, which turned out to be the BBC-banned protest track “Give Ireland Back To The Irish.” Plans changed, however, and the b-side to “Irish” became an instrumental version of the a-side, leaving this week’s BROW shelved in the vaults. I’m using the name “Rooster” for the track, though I am aware of two other names for it: “The Great Cock and Seagull Race” and “Breakfast Blues.”

The original line up of Wings was still intact at this point and included:

Paul McCartney – Vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards
Linda McCartney – Vocals, keyboards
Denny Laine – Guitar, vocals, bass
Denny Seiwell – Drums, percussion

So now you know that Alice In Chains are not the only band with a song called “Rooster.” For a track that never made it to final production, it came together well, and I love Paul’s Jerry Lee Lewis style banging on the keys. Enjoy…

Wings, 1971 (very possibly first group photo)

Here are some Amazon links to read more on, or purchase, some music related to this post:

1) Wild Life 1993 CD remaster of original 1971 album, includes “Give Ireland Back To The Irish” as one of three bonus tracks

2) The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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For your holiday VOW this year, I’ve dug up Paul McCartney’s 1979 promo video for “Wonderful Christmastime.” Many of you have probably been hearing it lately, playing over the PA in all of the department stores, while getting your holiday shopping done, and so I thought I’d post up the visuals to go with it.

Although it has a Christmas theme, it was recorded most likely in the summer of 1979, during Paul’s sessions for his McCartney II album. Like the other songs from these sessions, Paul plays all the instruments, although his band Wings are present in the video. While the McCartney II album was not released in final form until May of 1980, a double album test pressing version, prepared in extremely limited quantities, was out in late 1979. However, “Wonderful Christmastime” was not on it, or on the final version of the album. It was only issued as a single on November 16, 1979. Years later, in 1993, it appeared on the U.K. remaster CD of the Wings album Back To The Egg as a bonus cut. More recently two different edits of it appeared on the June 2011-issued deluxe edition of McCartney II (along with a DVD that contains this featured video). The video was filmed at the Fountain Inn, located in Ashurst, West Sussex, U.K.

Paul was the third of the solo Beatles to release a festive song for the holidays. John Lennon had released his “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” single in 1971, and George Harrison’s “Ding Dong, Ding Dong” was released in 1974. Ringo Starr released an entire album of Christmas songs on CD in 1999 titled I Wanna Be Santa Claus.

Whatever happens to be playing on your stereo or video player this week, I wish you all happy holidays, and plenty of peace and love going into the new year.

Click the image above to play the video.

Beatles music makes great gifts over the holidays. Here are some Amazon links to read more on, or purchase, some music related to this post, for your favorite Beatlemaniac:

1) McCartney II (Archive Collection) a beautiful set of three CDs and a DVD. All of the 2011-remastered tracks from original 1980 McCartney II album plus extras that appeared only on the rare test pressing double album, blus two edits of “Wonderful Christmastime”. The DVD contains the video seen here plus much more music. Click for details.

2) Back to the Egg 1993 remaster of original 1979 Wings album. Features two holiday bonus tracks: “Wonderful Christmastime” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae”.

3) Power To The People: The Hits 2010 CD hits collection of John Lennon’s best, including “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”.

4) Dark Horse 1992 CD remaster of original 1974 Dark Horse album featuring George Harrison’s Happy New Year song “Ding Dong, Ding Dong”.

5) Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters 2003 CD remaster of Ringo Starr’s 1999 I Wanna Be Santa Claus CD with lots of good and “cheery” Christmas music.

6) More Amazon links for any of your favorite Beatles-related music: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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Thirty one years ago yesterday, John Lennon was taken from us by a disturbed individual’s violence – the very same violence that John himself had spent much of the later years of his life opposing. Today’s video feature is a slideshow of various video clips and photographs of John’s life that were compiled into a promo of George Harrison’s tribute song to John, “All Those Years Ago,” released on a single in May of 1981, a few months after his murder.

George originally wrote “All Those Years Ago” with different lyrics, for Ringo Starr to record. Ringo made a recording of it, but felt that the vocal requirement was too high for his range. He was also not too keen on the original words. Since Ringo was not happy with the song or his recording of it, George took it back, and after John’s death, he wrote the lyrics for the version containing all of the heartfelt references to John that we know now.

George retained the original backing track, with himself on lead guitar and Ringo on drums, and superimposed his new vocal with the revised lyrics onto it. He also recruited Paul and Linda McCartney and their Wings bandmate, Denny Laine, to provide backing vocals. This makes the song one of the few that feature three members of The Beatles after the official breakup of the band. Additionally, Al Kooper plays keyboards on the record. Appropriately, long time Beatles producer George Martin co-produced the song with George Harrison. The sessions for “All Those Years Ago,” as well as the rest of the tracks on the associated album, Somewhere In England, were held in George Harrison’s private studio located at his Friar Park home in South Oxfordshire, U.K.

Today we can hear the song, not only in remembrance to John, but to its composer as well. Two veterans of music’s past, whose spirits remain strong in our music and memories of today. Thanks for stopping by…

Click the image above to play the video.

Beatles music makes great gifts over the holidays. Here are some Amazon links to read more on, or purchase, some music related to this post, for your favorite Beatlemaniac:

1) Somewhere in England – 2004 CD remaster of original 1981 album, including “All Those Years Ago”.

2) Let It Roll: Songs by George Harrison – 2009 remastered CD collection of George Harrison’s biggest hits, including “All Those Years Ago”.

3) Live in Japan (Hybr) – 1992 CD set of George Harrison live in concert with the Eric Clapton band. Includes hybrid CD that has separate surround sound mixes, and features a live performance of “All Those Years Ago”.

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"Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, The Beatles & Bournemouth" by Nick Churchill

If you happen to be looking for a unique holiday gift for any avid Beatlemaniacs in your life, then allow me a suggestion. Back in June (2011) I made a brief post about Nick Churchill’s upcoming book Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, The Beatles & Bournemouth, which was released back in September (2011). Now, after having a chance to actually read through the book, it comes across not only as a great holiday gift idea, but an entertaining read for any occasion.

Bournemouth, as I’m sure many reading already know, is a resort town on the southern coast of England. But did you also know that there are so many historical events that link The Beatles to this beautiful settlement in the British county of Dorset?

As pointed out on the back cover of the book, The Beatles played more theater shows at the Bournemouth Gaumont (16, in all) than any other concert venue in the U.K. outside of London, and a taping of one of their shows there is the earliest known recording of a theater performance by the group. A gig at Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens Theater on November 16, 1963 was the source of footage used by all three U.S. television networks covering the new “Beatlemania” craze in Europe. The resulting Nov. 21st telecast predated the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show appearance by two and a half months. The famous cover art photo used on the With The Beatles album was taken in Bournemouth by Robert Freeman in 1963. George Harrison’s first Beatles song, “Don’t Bother Me” was written while staying in Bournemouth. And, believe it or not, the story told in the 1969 Beatles single “The Ballad of John and Yoko” began while John was traveling to Mimi’s house where he ended up “standing in the dock at Southampton”.

From the book: The Beatles at the Palace Court Hotel in Bournemouth in August, 1963

John Lennon, was a regular visitor to Bournemouth after buying his Aunt Mimi a home in the area. Nick has shared with me that he has had very positive feedback about the wonderful photo in his book of John, with baby Julian and Aunt Mimi. It was shot by the ferry, near Mimi’s Bournemouth home in 1967. Additionally, there are around 200 previously unpublished photographs of The Beatles during their visits to Bournemouth, John’s gold discs displayed from inside Mimi’s house, and other rare images (such as this one to the right).

The book also features a foreword written by Howie Casey (of Howie & the Seniors). Howie, originally from Liverpool and a long-time friend of Paul McCartney’s, played with Paul’s band Wings in the 1970′s and has lived in Bournemouth since coming off the ill-fated 1980 Wings tour. He shares his memories of seeing the Silver Beetles in Liverpool and how they had improved by the time they arrived in Hamburg a few months later.

More about Nick’s book can be found on the blog
http://beatlesbournemouth.blogspot.com.

And the book can be ordered from the publisher’s website at
www.beatlesandbournemouth.com.

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