Chart Position: 1

  • #7 bestseller for 1980
  • Recorded live in concert
  • Written and produced by Paul McCartney
  • Guitar: Denny Laine, Lawrence Juber
  • Keyboards: Linda McCartney
  • Backing vocals: Linda McCartney, Denny Laine
  • Saxophone: Thadeus Richard, Howie Casey
  • This was originally the ‘b’ side of a single which had the studio version of Coming Up as the ‘a’ side
  • This is Paul McCartney and Wings’ final U.S. hit single
  • Paul McCartney played ten different parts in this song’s music video
  • Paul and Linda McCartney announced on Tom Snyder’s NBC talk show in 1980 that The Beatles would never reunite; however Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison did end up collaborating on the Beatles Anthology project in the 1990s (John Lennon was murdered in Dec 1980)
  • Later recorded by Silver Beetles (2009) and Michael McDonald (2015)

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