Not Saying Anything To Paul McCartney

ES-Say #33 Paul is Uncut. Pipes Of Peace is Cut.

                 I get it "Coming Up"! Is that also on Tug Of War?

 The new October issue of Uncut Magazine feature story is an 11-page spread on...well I thought the focus was the remasters but it's more about a mishmash of the impact surrounding John Lennon's death. It's very true the making of McCartney's first " proper" solo album(as he himself defines it), was heavily shaped by the passing of his band and childhood mate. It was expected that the interview would revisit this early-80s period of McCartney's career. How could it not?

The interviewer got a very candid interview in this 2015 Uncut article. All the right questions were asked concerning the period of time with one major oversite: the creations of Pipes Of Peace and to some extent, Tug Of War. It's great hearing about Carl Perkins and George Martin being huge influences on McCartney's work in general, but let me stop here. I'm now distracted from the "Joe La Taxi" song coming from the cable network "Vintage TV". But, is this really important for me to mention to you? Well, that's how the Uncut article started, mentioning random things about the interviewer doing his interview. Instead of being interesting about the interview taking place at Macca's Hog Mill Hill Studios, we get to hear a soulless description of facts about the place. At the very least, when the journalist of the recent Esquire magazine expressed the enormity of actually interviewing McCartney there was something poinent explained. I'm not sure I need to know the exact detailing in Uncut, ranging from archieval McCartney clutter to fridge magnets. But, oh yeah, McCartney has a current Lennon calendar, so this should be mentioned.

What does this article actually have to do with "Tug Of War" and "Pipes Of Peace"? In my mind, not that much. These topics were clearly danced around a lot, but at times it felt more like an article about all the post-Beatles period of collaborations for each other Beatles solo efforts. Nice to know that Paul also worked on Ringo's albums. Can you explain how Ringo fit in with " Tug Of War"? "Yeah, OK" said Ringo, in response to joining in with the  Tug sessions...and that was all to be explain about his appearance recording in 1981. Stevie Wonder is name dropped but he also is not questioned about working on the LP. Wanna hear about Stevie and Paul recording "Ebony and Ivory"? Look to a different magazine. It's probably in there. Along with Michael Jackson who get no mention...da da da DA! SaySaySay...I digress. My main point here is the Uncut article was conducted to accompany the '82 and '83 LP re-releases in October. You can't talk about the making of two albums and forget about how Paul appeared on Michael Jackson's colossal "Thriller" LP (and even Jackson cover of the Wings song, Girlfriend for his "Off The Wall" LP) which led to the collaborations on McCartney "Pipes Of Peace"(ie. Say Say Say, US#1 six weeks, or The Man, one of the albums highlights.). Luckily, it was not forgotten in Uncut that Wonder's duet of "Ebony and Ivory" was #1 in 9 countries from "Tug Of War". But, how was it recorded? Uncut sidesteps all these relevant stories yet deems it necessary to say that Paul offered his interviewer a piece of fruit to end the article. Try to remember that this feature article, while showing what the LP cover of "Peace" looks like, fails to identify that "Average Person" and "So Bad" are from "Peace" and not "Tug" as the reader has to assume its the latter album because the making of "Pipes Of Peace" is not discussed at all. I didn't even want to hear another explanation of Paul's notorious "It's a Drag" comment to reporters when bombarded by the Press for a reaction to Lennon's death. Move on to Paul's 1980s album period. I'm going to move on to the "Press To Play"(1986) LP, basically 'cause I mentioned "the Press" in this blog.

Apples and Oranges...Apples and Oranges...