Paul McCartney Archive Collection

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As many of you are aware, last year Band on the Run was released in the new Archive format, well this year McCartney, McCartney II, Ram and Venus & Mars are due to be released and news of the Macca and Macca II albums have come through:

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/paul-mccartney-mccartney-mccartney-ii-full-details-and-artwork/

On June 13th, they'll be released in similar editions to the Band on the Run release. :)

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  • adam_fransellaadam_fransella Posts: 1,660
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    Let's hope that later this year, "Ram" and "Venus And Mars" DO get re-released, as suggested -
    or perhaps one of the two could be subsituted by "Red Rose Speedway"!

    And although this is years away, the re-issue of "Tug Of War" had better be worth every penny!!
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    Let's hope that later this year, "Ram" and "Venus And Mars" DO get re-released, as suggested -
    or perhaps one of the two could be subsituted by "Red Rose Speedway"!

    And although this is years away, the re-issue of "Tug Of War" had better be worth every penny!!

    Tug of War's one I'm looking forward to as well, there were a few unused songs too so that'll be interesting.
  • adam_fransellaadam_fransella Posts: 1,660
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    CABLEDUDE wrote: »
    Tug of War is one I am looking forward to as well, there were a few unused songs too so that will be interesting.

    The 1993 remastering and re-issuing of "Tug Of War" should have included at least one bonus track - but bizarrely, it did not. :(

    Had McCartney seen fit to enhance the track-listing of "ToW", what he should have added are the following rare songs:

    "Rainclouds" (B-side of "Ebony And Ivory"),
    "I'll Give You A Ring" (B-side of "Take It Away"),
    "Ode To A Koala Bear" (B-side of "Say Say Say").

    In the mean time, of all these can be found on a bootleg collection of Macca rarities called "B-Sides Himself" -
    good luck to anyone trying to find it on E-Bay, or the like. ;)

    As for the 1993 re-issue of "Pipes Of Peace" (the under-appreciated sequel to "ToW"), that did provide three bonus tracks -
    but one of them was "We All Stand Together", which was (and still is) already included on Macca's compilation "All The Best"! :rolleyes:

    Let's hope the forthcoming repackaging of all Macca's output since 1970 gives fans a massive improvement on the meagre 1993 re-releases!! :)
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