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The solo thing, I just think there's just a lot of things I wouldn't have done a lot of raw edges, a lot of silly sounds that I did for my own amusement, that normally I might think, 'Well, y'know, that's just a bit of a goof.'” And we were working with an engineer and he listened - we'd been working on mixing the live one, workin' on it for half-an-hour or so, and then I said, 'Wait a minute, I'll just play you this other one.' And he got a totally different feeling off the solo one. McCartney recalled the difference between the live version of “Coming Up” to the solo one-man-band version on McCartney II: “The live version of 'Coming Up' - and the solo one is off this. And I wanted to just go in for, like, about two weeks and just have a mess around and definitely not do anything for a new album, and definitely not try to do anything properly, and definitely experiment with anything.” I wanted to just hire a machine - which I did, I hired a 16-track machine and put a microphone into the back, so it's a very primitive way of doing it, and you bypass the mixing console.
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'Cause I was fed up of formally making records, y'know, going in and doing it all properly. Paul McCartney recalled how the offbeat, yet groundbreaking, McCartney II project happened almost by accident: “What happened was, originally I just went into the studio to have a mess around. In America, nobody wanted to play the McCartney II version.” But the fact that there was this conflict, this dichotomy between Paul as 'Paul' and Paul as 'Wings,' as the band, it was most epitomized by 'Coming Up.' Because in England, the studio. Wings lead guitarist Lawrence Juber recalled that with Wings still together - but with McCartney also pursuing a solo career - it was a strange time to be scoring a Number One hit: “The shame of it was, that if we had continued - he would've been touring the States with a Number One record, 'cause 'Coming Up' was Number One. Incidentally, shortly before his death, McCartney's former partner John Lennon went on record saying how much he loved McCartney's originally studio version of “Coming Up.”īy the time of “Coming Up's” release, McCartney's proposed world tour had been sidelined by the former Beatle's infamous pot bust the previous January, which landed McCartney in a Tokyo jail for 10 days. His final two Number One's were duets with Stevie Wonder (“Ebony And Ivory” – 1982) and Michael Jackson (“Say Say Say” – 1983).
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Despite Wings receiving co-billing, “Coming Up” also marks the final time McCartney topped the charts as a “solo” act. disc jockeys flipped the single over for the normal voiced-live McCartney version - which resulted in Wings' sixth and final chart topper and McCartney's first Number One single of the 1980's. The live version was actually only intended as the B-Side of the studio version of “Coming Up” - which was the lead single and opening cut from McCartney's 1980 solo set McCartney II.Īlthough the modern-sounding gimmicky studio version was a smash overseas, U.S. The song was recorded live by McCartney and Wings during their final tour on December 17th, 1979 at the Apollo in Glasgow, Scotland. It was 41 years ago today (June 28th, 1980) that Paul McCartney's “Coming Up (Live At Glasgow)” began its three-week run on top of the charts.