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WRITE AWAY
Your chance to get questions answered

            Q
            Two years ago, in the 72nd issue of Club Sandwich, Paul announced that he would be having an exhibition of his paintings in Germany in 1996. I've not seen anything about this since then. Did the event happen, or has it been cancelled?
            Christine Jones, London, England

            It hasn't happened yet, Christine, but it certainly hasn't been cancelled either. These things often take longer to tange than anticipated, and when Paul revealed to CS his plans for mounting the exhibition - his first -1996 was indeed the provisional year. Now it looks like being 1997, so expect further announcements before too long.

            Q
            I was browsing through the credits on Anthology 2 recently and it started me wondering how Paul feels about his name coming after John's on some of the songs he wrote by himself, like 'Yesterday'. Do you think this is something which bothers him?
            Carol Matthews, London, England

            It's interesting that you should mention this, Carol, because we had been wondering ourselves about this same thing - and especially about 'Yesterday' because it is so well known that Paul wrote the song alone, even though he not only has to share the credit but has his name listed second. The matter has cropped up recently, in fact, and we believe there are moves afoot for the situation to be remedied and for Paul to be given his proper credit.

            Q
            How did the MPL "juggler" come into being?
            Clive Buckland, Reading, England

            The "juggler" was conceived by London-based design consultants, commissioned by Paul to come up with a fresh logo for his company early in the 1980s, one that would symbolise the multi-faceted aspect of the company - music, films and more - and replace the one he himself had designed some years earlier. Paul then wrote and recorded the short piece of instrumental music that accompanies the animated version, as seen in films and video tapes.

            Q
            In the song 'Reception', at the start of the Back To The Egg album, there are a lot of spoken voices in different languages. As I am Norwegian I became surprised to hear Norwegian voices all over it, especially the words that fade out with the song, beginning "og la oss" and ending "Nye Testamentet", which translates as something like "Let us
now try, for a moment, to see this in the light of the New Testament". Were these words and voices just selected at random, and who selected them?
            Angelo Cannaro, Erdal, Norway

            They were pretty much random recordings, Angelo, fitting in with the concept of reproducing the miscellaneous sounds ones hears when tuning a radio across the frequencies in England, picking up a mish-mash of British and European stations and extraneous bleeps and buzzes along the way. Back To The Egg was jointly produced by Paul and Chris Thomas, and engineered by Phil McDonald and Mark Vigars, and this was the team that assembled the sounds in the studio.

            Q
            Years ago, someone sent me a mysterious tape with a song entitled 'Monkey Business'. I now know [because of your explanations in the last Write Away column] that this was the B-side of Jungle Juice's cover of Paul's theme tune 'Zoo Gang'. But I must say, it certainly sounds like the same musicians who recorded 'Lunch Box/Odd Sox' -the piano and synth players especially - a year later. Any comment?
            Tom L Jones, Louisville, Colorado, USA

            Who would have thought that 'Zoo Gang', one brief piece of instrumental music, could engender such widespread interest? Certainly not us, but the letters do keep on coming. To close the subject (once and for all?) we can only say that 'Lunch Box/Odd Sox', an instrumental recorded in 1975 and issued on the B-side of the single 'Coming Up' in 1980, features Paul McCartney with other members of Wings. We promise you, there wasn't a Jungle Juicer in sight!

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AUTUMN CROSSWORD
Clues ACROSS lead to names of popular songs, with the artist's name given in brackets. Clues DOWN are normal.

Club Sandwich 79 ACROSS
1. Lunar shape (1,4) (Paul McCartney)
4. Shackles (6) (The Beatles)
9. Port on Lake Michigan (7) (Frank Sinatra)
10. "Au ___ de la Lune" (5) (Gilbert O'Sullivan)
11. Untruths (4) (Status Quo)
12. Style in clothes, behaviour etc. (7) (David Bowie)
13. For what reason? (3) (Donny Osmond)
14. Shorter form of Elizabeth (4) (Various Artists)
16. At what time? (4) (Showaddywaddy)
18. Distress call (3) (Abba)
20. Anxious, on edge (7) (Stcvie Wonder)
21. Downpour, shower (4) (The Beatles)
24. "_____Celeste" (5) (The Bachelors)
25. Dropping down (7) (Roy Orbison)
26. Lubricant (6) (Frankie Valli)
DOWN
1. Squawk like a hen (6)
2. Oil-producing evergreen tree (5)
3. Close to (4)
5. Hand-tools for cutting metal (8)
6. Form a mental image of (7)
7. Muscular, robust (6)
8. Disney's daffy dog (5)
13. People who use devious methods to achieve something
15. American house-doctor (7)
17. Hard aromatic seed used as spice (6)
18. Rigid (5)
19. Warmly and cosily (6)
22. A being from another world (5)
23. Slender (4)


SOLUTION TO THE SUMMER CROSSWORD IN CS 78

Club Sandwich 79


INSPIRATION

Seeking out the spark behind the song Club Sandwich 79

            The traditional nursery rhyme 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' was worked into a new song by Paul and Linda in 1972, and issued as the second single by their new band, Wings, hitting the Top 10 soon afterwards.

            Mary had a little lamb,
            Its fleece was white as snow;
            And everywhere that Mary went
            The lamb was sure to go.

            It followed her to school one day,
            That was against the rule;
            It made the children laugh and play
            To see a lamb at school.