All the Best!
Occupation
- Paul McCartney: vocals, guitar, bass, keyboard
- Linda McCartney: Keyboard
- Denny Laine: background vocals, piano, guitar, bass
- As well as various musicians
All the Best! is the eighth solo album by Paul McCartney. At the same time it is the eighteenth album Paul McCartney after the breakup of the Beatles and his second compilation album including the Wings albums. It was published on 2 November 1987 in the UK and December 1, 1987 in the U.S..
Formation
After the commercial failure of the album Press to Play Paul McCartney took with Phil Ramone as producer in February / March 1987 on several songs; but a LP release was not made. Two songs of these recording sessions have been published in 1987, Once Upon A Long Ago was for the compilation album All the Best! and used as a single A - side, the second song Back On My Feet was the B-side.
On 20 and July 21, 1987 Paul McCartney took on sixteen rock-' n' -roll title; four of these songs, Midnight Special, Do not Get Around Much More, Lawdy Miss Clawdy and Kansas City, have been used as a B-side tracks for two maxi singles of Once Upon A Long Ago, which appeared in November 1987.
Since the recorded songs were not used for a new studio album in 1987, another compilation album was released nine years after the release of Wings Greatest. Although All the Best! (European LP edition ) contains eleven songs from the Wings, was given as the sole artist Paul McCartney.
Originally, the title Waterspout, an unpublished song of the London Town sessions will be posted on the compilation album, this project but was rejected in favor of Once Upon A Long Ago.
The European LP version of All the Best! contains nineteen top- ten hits, including three number one hits from the UK. The Top Ten Hits from the UK Mary Had a Little Lamb, Wonderful Christmastime and Waterfalls are not included on the album. Maybe I'm Amazed (studio version ) was not a single in the UK.
The U.S. LP version of All the Best! contains seventeen top ten hits, including nine number-one hits, from the USA. The Top Ten Hits from the USA Helen Wheels, Mabe I'm Amazed (Live Version), Take It Away and Spies Like Us are not included on the album.
The duet with Michael Jackson The Girl is Mine, also a top ten hit in the UK and the U.S., is a composition by Michael Jackson and was released at a different sound carrier company, so this song for legal reasons on All the Best! is included.
The album was commercially very successful in the UK and it sold over 900,000 times in the United States more than two million copies were sold. To promote the album and the single in Germany, Paul McCartney joined Wetten, dass on 20 December 1987 in the German entertainment show. ? and brought with full playback the song Once Upon A Long Ago dar.
The cover
The designer of the cover is Michael Ross, the cover images were photographed by Tim O'Sullivan.
Title list
European version
The European LP version contains 20 songs, the CD version of 17 songs.
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
U.S. version
Here is the LP version as the CD version, the following 17 songs:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Single releases
On November 16, 1987 appeared in Europe, the single Once Upon A Long Ago / Back On My Feet, the United States has waived the release of the single, so that both songs in the United States were not available as Once Upon A Long Ago and not on the U.S. edition of All The Best! is included. The blending of the single is not the same as the CD version.
In addition, two 12 " vinyl maxi-single was released with the following songs that first appeared also on 16 November 1987: Once Upon a Long Ago ( Long Version ) / Back on My Feet / Midnight Special / Do not Get Around Much More.
The second maxi single was released on November 23, 1987: Once Upon a Long Ago (Extended Version) / Back on My Feet / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Kansas City.
The blending of the Long version was by George Martin, during the extended version of Paul McCartney and Peter Henderson has been mixed.
First published by Paul McCartney also a single in CD format: Once Upon a Long Ago (Single Version) / Back on My Feet / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Kansas City, the publication also took place on 16 November 1987.
Once Upon a Long Ago was the last time single under the name Paul McCartney, which reached the top ten in the UK.
For the single and a video was made .
Chart positions
Video and promotional publications
In Europe, a VHS videotape was released titled Once upon a video ... that contains only the following four music videos: Once upon a Long Ago / Stranglehold / Pretty Little Head / We All Stand Together (Video version ), the song Stranglehold and Pretty Little Head is not on the album All the Best! are included.
For promotional purposes 750 single boxes ( catalog number: PM Box 1 ) were produced in the UK, these include the following nine singles with individual catalog numbers:
My Love / Another Day (PM Box 11) - Jet / Band on the Run (PM Box 12) - Ebony and Ivory / Say Say Say (PM Box 13) - Listen To What The Man Said / Live and Let Die (PM Box 14) - Let 'Em In / Goodnight Tonight (PM box 15 ) - With a Little Luck / Coming Up (PM box 16) - Silly Love songs / C Moon (PM box 17 ) - No More Lonely Nights / Pipes of Peace ( PM box 18) - Mull of Kintyre / We All stand Together ( PM box 19).
Reissues
- The album has been remastered not new.
Chart positions of the singles included on the album
Chart positions of singles