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Your chance to get questions answered

            Q
            In the Winter 1996 issue of Club Sandwich (number 80) the contributor to the 'Mmmm...' column listed a song, 'Twice In A Lifetime', that I have not heard about. Please tell me where and when it was released.
            Stewart Nagle, King's Lynn, England

            Twice In A Lifetime
is not only the name of the song, it's also the title of an American movie, issued there in 1985 (but not in Britain until 1987), written by the Englishman Colin Welland and starring Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan and Ann-Margret. Paul was invited to write the title song, which he did: it plays over the closing credits. Apart from the movie's availability on home-video, the song remained unreleased until it was included in the overhaul of Paul's CD back-catalogue in 1993, when it was added as a bonus track to the Pipes Of Peace album - still available in all good record stores.

            Q
            I read in a Bulgarian magazine that Paul and Linda are at work on a new project, called by them a Photofilm. It is said to be about the Beatles and made through 4000 unseen Linda's photos, operated by a computer. If it's not just gossip, I'd like to know when it will be ready.
            Alexandra Stojanova Gaidova, Sofia, Bulgaria

            The article you've seen is basically true, Alexandra, although some of the details are inaccurate. You may have seen - in Club Sandwich #75 as well as elsewhere - that Paul has directed a nine-minute production, Grateful Dead - A Photofilm, which transferred to the moving image a succession of stills of that famous band taken by Linda in the late 1960s. Since its release in 1995 the film has won critical applause and awards, prompting Paul to plan a second such film, this time working with Linda's photos of the Beatles, taken 1967 to 1969. Although there aren't as many as 4000 images (if there were they could no doubt fill the Albert Hall) Paul has been steadily storyboarding the available shots into a sequence suitable for shooting on to film. It's a long, slow process, but the work continues, and the finished item should be ready for unveiling in the not too distant future.

            Q
            I have two questions regarding songs from 1969: is 'Two Of Us' about John or Linda, and did Paul ever record his own version of 'Goodbye'?
            Franco Monarin, Canada

            Paul has said that 'Two Of Us' was inspired by a drive he and Linda took in the countryside outside London, late in 1968.
            Paul wrote 'Goodbye' expressly for Apple artist Mary Hopkin to record and so he never committed his own version of the song to tape in a manner suitable for release. He did record a straightforward live vocal/ guitar version of the number for demonstration purposes, however, so that Mary could study how it should sound.

            Q
            Reading a couple of days ago that there -will be a special TV programme to tie in with the issue of Paul's new album, I wondered if he has done this for every LP in the past and how such transmissions can be seen now.
            Silvano del Pozo, Barcelona, Spain

            A number of Paul's film/video/TV ventures over the years could be said to have generally tied in with albums (the Paul Is Live video that went with the record of the same name, the Liverpool Oratorio TV programmes that coincided with the premiere performance and subsequent album, and so on) but we'll leave a full reckoning of these for some future occasion. But dealing expressly with your specific question, Silvano, there was a BBC/MPL co-production (subsequently issued on video as The Paul McCartney Special) that coincided with Press To Play in 1986, Put It There (again, later available on tape) which promoted Flowers In The Dirt in 1989, and Movin' On (commercially released on video in Japan) that went with Off The Ground in 1993. Back To The Egg was treated to a dedicated TV programme too, compiling the various videos made to accompany some of the tracks, but this wasn't screened until June 1981, two years after the album was issued.

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THOSE MAGICAL MUSICAL MACCA MOMENTS
Another reader chooses his ten favourite high spots from Paul's music

                
  1. The achingly heartfelt sentiment of 'All My Trials'
  2.             
  3. The sweet, romantic nature of 'Winedark Open Sea'
  4.             
  5. The piano section that opens the surprise reprise 'Rock Show' ending
  6.             
  7. The gritty guitar opening to 'No Values'
  8.             
  9. The haunting acoustic solo in 'Somebody Who Cares'
  10.             
  11. The sun-drenched aura of both 'Summer's Day Song' and 'Feel The Sun'
  12.             
  13. All of 'Daytime Nightime Suffering'
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  15. The spine-tingling piano/guitar intro to 'Winter Rose'
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  17. The pump intro to 'Beware My Love'
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  19. The crescendo in '1985' leading to the re-introduction of 'Band On The Run'

            This list was kindly sent in by Club member Fred Lark, of Blacksburg, VA, USA.
            If you would like to list your ten favourite Magical Musical Macca Moments then please send them to Club Sandwich, PO Box 110, Westcliff, Essex, SSO 8NW, England, marking your postcard or envelope 'Mmmm..’ in the top-left corner. Please do not use your submission to carry any other request or Club business.

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