Paul McCartney's entire back catalogue to be reissued by Concord Music Group

The BeatlesBible.com

12.43pm, Wednesday 21 April 2010

 

It has been announced that Sir Paul McCartney's complete solo and Wings back catalogue will be reissued by the Concord Music Group.

 

The reissue programme, announced to coincide with the 40th anniversary of 1970's McCartney album, will encompass both physical and digital distribution of McCartney's recordings, and will also include his recordings as The Fireman, Twin Freaks and Percy 'Thrills' Thrillington.

 

The first album to be reissued will be the classic Band On The Run, seen by many fans as McCartney's finest post-Beatles album. A special multi-disc edition will include bonus material, remastered audio and enhanced packaging.

 

The move marks a formal end to McCartney's business relationship with EMI Group, which until February 2010 had owned the rights to the majority of his music. McCartney's releases since 2007, including Memory Almost Full and Good Evening New York City, were released by the independent company Concord.

 

Here's the full press release:

 

Paul McCartney's MPL and Concord Music Group, one of the world's leading independent music companies today announced an historic agreement to globally market and distribute McCartney's venerated solo and Wings catalog, which encompass 40 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. Indeed, the music legend has sold an astonishing 100 million solo singles and 700 million albums world-wide in his unparalleled career. The announcement coincides with the 40th anniversary of McCartney, his fabled first solo album released April, 1970.

 

This exclusive global arrangement, will cover both physical and digital distribution of McCartney's treasured post Beatles catalog including landmark solo albums such as McCartney, Ram, McCartney II, Tug Of War, Pipes of Peace, Give My Regards To Broad Street, Press To Play, Flowers in the Dirt, Off the Ground, Flaming Pie, Driving Rain, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, Memory Almost Full, and Good Evening New York City. The classic Wings albums include Wildlife, Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus and Mars, Wings At The Speed of Sound, Wings Over America, London Town and Back To The Egg. The catalog also includes the inventive, highly regarded albums recorded under the McCartney pseudonyms Percy "Thrills" Thrillington, The Fireman and Twin Freaks.

 

The indispensible and remarkably enduring collection of songs represented in McCartney's post 1970 collected works include the gems "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Another Day", "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", "My Love", "Live & Let Die", "Band On The Run", "Jet", "Listen To What The Man Said", "Silly Love Songs", "Let 'Em In", "With A Little Luck", "Mull Of Kintyre", "Coming Up", "Ebony and Ivory", "Say Say Say", "No More Lonely Nights", "My Brave Face", "Hope Of Deliverance", "Fine Line", and "Dance Tonight" among many others.

 

McCartney fans can look forward to an ambitious and rewarding reissue program beginning in August of 2010 with Band On The Run; Paul McCartney & Wings' classic #1 album from 1973 that spawned the immortal title song as well as the smash hit "Jet". It will be available in a variety of configurations, including a special collector's multi-disc edition with remastered audio, enhanced packaging and rare bonus content.

 

In 2007 Concord Records and Starbucks partnered to form Hear Music whose inaugural release was Paul McCartney's highly successful, critically acclaimed album Memory Almost Full. The McCartney-Concord relationship has since blossomed to include the 2009 release of McCartney's historic multi-disc live CD/DVD Good Evening New York City and now this landmark multi-year global marketing and distribution partnership.

 

"Since the release of Memory Almost Full in 2007 I have had a good working relationship with Concord and enjoyed our mutual love of music," stated McCartney. "I'm looking forward to continuing this relationship with the new catalog campaign. I'm always looking for new ways and opportunities to get my music to people and Concord share this passion."

 

"Working with Paul McCartney, the MPL team and this tremendous catalog is an unbelievable honor," stated Glen Barros, Concord Music Group President and CEO. "To so many of us here at Concord and to millions of people all over the world, Paul's music has formed a big part of 'life's soundtrack'. So to now be a part of representing this amazing body of work is nothing short of a dream come true."

 

Mmmm, I'm very interested in this. But as I have already own all McCartney/Wings studio albums I'm very curious about the extra tracks?

 

Sounds interesting, I must admit I have hardly any of Paul's albums apart from Band on the run(vinyl), Venus & Mars(vinyl), Wings over America(vinyl), Memory almost full, and a few greatest hits compilations. So I might buy a few to fill in the gaps.

Last June, MaccaBlog informed you that the album of Paul McCartney "Band On The Run" will be remastered in four editions (A standard edition, a special edition, a deluxe edition and a vinyl edition)

 

Now, you can discover in detail the contents of each of these editions. Regarding the release date, (first announced on 28th September), it has been pushed back to November 2nd, unless other changes.

 

We will publish the different visual versions offered as they become available.

 

Paul McCartney’s album "Band on the Run" is widely considered as one of his best albums and has been No. 1 in charts when it was released in England, United States, Norway and Australia.

 

1CD digipack – Standard Edition:

 

1. Band on the Run (2010 Remaster)

2. Jet (2010 Remaster)

3. Bluebird (2010 Remaster)

4. Mrs Vandebilt (2010 Remaster)

5. Let Me Roll It (2010 Remaster)

6. Mamunia (2010 Remaster)

7. No Words (2010 Remaster)

8. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me) (2010 Remaster)

9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (2010 Remaster)

 

 

2CD+1DVD digipack – Special Edition:

 

CD1 ditto Standard Edition

 

CD2

 

1. Helen Wheels (2010 Remaster)

2. Country Dreamer (2010 Remaster)

3. Bluebird [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

4. Jet [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

5. Let Me Roll It [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

6. Band on the Run [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

7. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

8. Country Dreamer [from One Hand Clapping"> (2010 Remaster)

9. Zoo Gang (2010 Remaster)

 

DVD

 

Musical Videos:

1. Band on the Run (05:10)

2. Mamunia (04:52)

3. Album Promo (07:42)

Featuring Band on the Run, Mrs Vandebilt, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five, Bluebird

4. Helen Wheels (03:39)

5. Wings In Lagos (03:01)

Edit of mute black and white footage of a day out in Lagos during the recording sessions with a

soundbed based on an alternative version of Band on the Run

6. Osterley Park (15:20)

Edit of behind the scenes footage at the album cover photoshoot featuring all participants

7. One Hand Clapping (51:49)

 

Documentary programme originally made for TV featuring studio performances

Filmed & recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, August 1974

Directed by David Litchfield

 

7.1. One Hand Clapping Theme

7.2. Jet

7.3. Soily

7.4. C Moon

7.5. Little Woman Love

7.6. Maybe I'm Amazed

7.7. My Love

7.8. Bluebird

7.9. Let's Love

7.10. All Of You

7.11. I'll Give You A Ring

7.12. Band on the Run

7.13. Live and Let Die

7.14. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

7.15. Baby Face

 

3CD+1DVD case – Deluxe Edition:

 

CD1 & CD2 ditto Special Edition

 

CD3 21 tracks remastered from the original documentary produced for the 25th Anniversary Edition.

 

1. Paul McCartney (Intro) /Band on the Run (Nicely Toasted Mix)(2010 Digital Remaster)

2. Band on the Run (Original) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 1)(2010 Digital Remaster)

3. Band on the Run (Barn Rehearsal – 21st July 1989) (2010 Digital Remaster)

4. Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 2) /Mamunia (Original) (Background) /Denny Laine (Dialogue) /Mamunia (Original) (Background) /Linda McCartney (Dialogue) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 3)(2010 Digital Remaster)

5. Bluebird (Live Version – Australia 1975) (2010 Digital Remaster)

6. Bluebird (Original) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 4)(2010 Digital Remaster)

7. Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 5) /No Words (Original) (Background) /Geoff Emerick (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

8. No Words (Original) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 6) /Tony Visconti (Dialogue) /Band on the Run (Original) (Illustration) /Tony Visconti (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

9. Jet (Original from Picasso’s Last Words) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 7) /Jet (Original from Picasso’s Last Words) (Background) /Al Coury (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

10. Jet (Berlin Soundcheck – 3rd September 1993) (2010 Digital Remaster)

11. Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 8) /Clive Arrowsmith (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

12. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (Original) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 9) /James Coburn (Dialogue) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 10) /John Conteh (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

13. Mrs Vandebilt (Original) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 11) /Kenny Lynch (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

14. Let Me Roll It (Cardington Rehearsal – 5th February 1993) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 12)(2010 Digital Remaster)

15. Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 13) /Mrs Vandebilt (Original) (Background) /Michael Parkinson (Dialogue) /Linda McCartney (Band On The Run Photoshoot) (Dialogue) /Michael Parkinson (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

16. Helen Wheels (Crazed) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 14) /Christopher Lee (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

17. Band On The Run (Strum Bit) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 15) /Clement Freud (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

18. Picasso’s Last Words (Original) (Background) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 16) /Dustin Hoffman (Dialogue)(2010 Digital Remaster)

19. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me) (Acoustic Version) (2010 Digital Remaster)

20. Band on the Run (Nicely Toasted Mix) /Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 17) (2010 Digital Remaster)

21. Band on the Run (Northern Comic Version) (2010 Digital Remaster)

 

DVD ditto Special Edition

 

2LP:

Disque 1 : ditto CD1 Standard Edition

Disque 2 : ditto CD2 Special Edition

 

Source: Universal Music France

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