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WRITE AWAY
Your chance to get questions answered

            Q
            Recently I bought an American 12-inch promotional single containing Paul's song 'Ou Est Le Soleil' in a very different mix, by one Dennis Muyet. It was issued by the Disconet program service. Could you tell me for what reason it was released and why a different mix was made? Also I'd like to know if there are any other promo-only mixes of Paul's songs.
            Servi Stevens, Valkenburg, The Netherlands

            To answer your last question first, Servi, there are loads of these mixes around, and keeping track is not easy. To answer your previous two questions, such remixes are made quickly (and without much fanfare/publicity) to interest groovers in the clubs - DJs and dancers - and so are often much longer than the commercially available versions, with extended instrumental sections. 'Ou Est Le Soleil', from the CD-album Flowers In The Dirt, was made available not only in variant mixes but with different-length edits of those mixes too. Most of these were made by Shep Pettibone but, as you say, a mix for the Disconet service, by Dennis Muyet, was also made.

            Q
            The label on the single 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish' gives the publisher as Northern Songs but also states "copyright also claimed by Kidney Punch Music". What does that mean?
            Jan Cees ter Brugge, Hilversum, The Netherlands

            Kidney Punch is the name of one of the McCartneys' music publishing companies, albeit little used. The single was issued at a time - early 1972 - when Paul and Linda (and also John and Yoko) were in dispute with their old company Northern Songs over its new owners' refusal to believe that the two former Beatles were now composing songs with their respective wives.

            Q
            I read in the Standing Stone programme that the recording is available as a vinyl boxed-set. I was in London for the premiere and looked in every record store but didn't find it. Was it released?
            Simone Kosina, Malsch, Germany

            The vinyl version release was released six weeks after the CD and cassette formats, Simone, because of the difficulty in preparing a perfect vinyl master. We understand that EMI has made the vinyl album available for any territory to release, and although it does not appear to have been issued in Germany at this time, no doubt it can be obtained on import.

            Q x 2
            What type, make and gauge of string does Paul use on his bass guitars?
            Andy Smart, Bournemouth, England

            Paul has so many basses that it would take paragraphs to answer these questions for all of them. For his famed Hofner Violin Bass, however, he uses La Bella strings, stainless-steel wound. As for gauges, the G-string is a 40, D is 60, A is 75 and bottom E is 95.

            It may seem a silly question, but I've always wondered if Paul plays an upside-down bass and guitar or if he re-strings them so that he can play the chords as a right-handed musician.
            Jack Beard, Candia, New Hampshire, USA

            As hundreds of photographs from over the years show, Paul can play a right-handed guitar upside down, but these days (and for a great many years) he buys left-handed guitars so that this isn't necessary. All of the major manufacturers make guitars for left- and right-handed musicians as a matter of course.

            A
            In the last Sandwich we asked if any readers were aware of a photograph showing Paul with Jimi Hendrix. Some of you have kindly responded, sending photocopies of one such pic that appears in Richard DiLello's 1972 book about the Beatles' Apple company, The Longest Cocktail Party. But this is only a 'snap' photo that happens to show Paul and Jimi, not together but in the same frame. Thanks to those of you who sent this, but our quest for a really decent pic (if one exists) continues...

            A
            An enquiry in CS78 (Summer 1996) prompted us to ask if any readers could supply the background information to a photo of Paul with Mick Jagger and studio engineer Glyn Johns, taken at a Marianne Faithfull recording session. Kristofer K Engelhardt of Bay City, Michigan, USA -the author of a forthcoming book, Beatles Undercover, that looks at Paul's and the other Beatles' guest appearances on different artist's records - has come up with an answer. He reckons that the photo was taken on 19 May 1967 at Decca Studios in London, a session that Paul attended after the Beatles' press party for Sgt Pepper earlier the same evening - the identical clothes being a helpful clue! Decca files indicate that Marianne was recording a Mike Leander-produced version of 'With A Little Help From My Friends' (even though the Beatles' own version was not yet out) but that it was never released and remains unissued to this day.

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THOSE MAGICAL MUSICAL MACCA MOMENTS

Three readers share their ten favourite high spots from Paul's music

  1. Paul's energy-filled screaming vocal in 'Beware My Love'
  2. That funky bass line in 'Magneto And Titanium Man'
  3. Paul's whimsical spoken lyrics in 'Temporary Secretary'
  4. The sweetly beautiful and hopelessly romantic chorus in 'Only Love Remains'
  5. 'Celebration', the touching finale to Standing Stone
  6. The perfect overlapping of the four melodies at the end of the Red Rose Speedway melody
  7. Paul's relentless vocal in 'Spin It On'
  8. The pristine, beautiful counter-melody chorus in 'Wanderlust'
  9. The lavish orchestral ending of 'Beautiful Night'
  10. Everything about 'Calico Skies'

            This list was kindly sent in by Club members Trina Banick, Tara Banick and Kirstin Dougherty, of Lindenhurst, Illinois, 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.

SPRING CROSSWORD COMPOSERS LIVES

            Each clue ACROSS leads to the name of a composer. Each clue also contains a letter-mixture of the composer's name. For example, if the answer was HANDEL, the clue might read "in England, he achieved his greatest fame"
            DOWN clues are normal

Club Sandwich 85 ACROSS
1. As well as a pupil of Schonberg, a celebrated exponent of unusual sound effects (4)
3. He wrote his An American In Paris when generally shifting his style from classical to jazz (8)
9. Hungarian contemporary of Berlioz, still regarded as a grand old man of music (5)
10. His works include Salon Mexico and plainer, simpler pieces (7)
11. History finds him an amateurish sort of composer but a good music critic (3)
13. Died in Naples in 1736, having been a prolific composer of glees, operas, etc. (9)
14. Forerunner of Liszt, quantities of his flute compositions are still played today (6)
16. Born in New York, died in Geneva in 1948, aged 92. He was a painter as well as a composer and he left a revealing sort of musical diary (6)
18. Friend of Glinka - brave, likeable sort of well-born Russian (9)
20. Doctor of Music at Cambridge and Oxford. Although he died in 1572, he is remembered yet for his church music (3)
22. Well-known for his Rustle Of Spring and Norwegian songs in individual style (7)
23. Norwegian famous for his nationalistic pieces, eg Rigaudon, Springdans etc. (5)
25. French composer best known for operas but his suites, called Scenes, met - as expected - much acclaim (8)
26. His Show Boat is among the finer kinds of American musicals (4)
DOWN
1. Islamic title (5)
2. US word for petrol (3)
4. Call for repeated performance (6)
5. Prop, provide for (7)
6. Vessel used in persuit of Moby Dick? (9)
7. Push gently with elbow (5)
8. Cease (4)
12. Young racehorses (9)
15. Small dark glassy object, thought to be a product of meteoric impact (7)
17. Sturdy walking-shoe, Irish accent? (6)
18. Breast (5)
19. Port of NW Spam (4)
21. Scottish marbles champion? (5)
24. Nickname of Dwight David Eisenhower (3)


SOLUTION TO THE CHRISTMAS MACCAGRAM

Club Sandwich 85

Club Sandwich 85