Pure McCartney

by Paul McCartney

Overview

Touted as a personally curated compilation by Paul McCartney, Pure McCartney is the first McCartney compilation since 2001's Wingspan: Hits and History. A full 15 years separated this and Wingspan, longer than the span between that double-disc set and 1987's All the Best, but the 2001 set also stopped cold in 1984, leaving over 30 years of solo McCartney recordings uncompiled on hits collections. In both its standard two-CD and deluxe four-disc incarnations, Pure McCartney attempts to rectify this, going so far as to include "Hope for the Future," his song for the 2014 video game Destiny. A fair chunk of the compilation rests upon songs heard on Wings Greatest, All the Best, and Wingspan -- "Jet," "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "Another Day," "Mull of Kintyre," "Let Em In," "Band on the Run," "No More Lonely Nights," "Live and Let Die," "Say Say Say," "Listen to What the Man Said," and "Silly Love Songs" are all de rigueur -- so the interesting things lie in the margins, or in the music made since 1984. The standard edition contains three selections from Flaming Pie -- the 1997 album that kicked off a latter-day streak of excellent records from McCartney -- and a couple of cuts from both Chaos & Creation in the Backyard and Memory Almost Full, but it bypasses Flowers in the Dirt entirely. Flowers is also entirely absent on the deluxe edition, which nevertheless offers plenty of room for digressions -- here, the new wave future shock of "Temporary Secretary," the rockers "Junior's Farm," the hippie come-on "Big Barn Bed" and "Hi Hi Hi," and the frivolous synth pop of Press can all be heard -- so it paints a much richer portrait of McCartney's solo work, but even then it feels slightly incomplete. Hits are missing, including the brassy Brit-pop of "Take It Away," "My Brave Face," and the seasonal "Wonderful Christmastime," as are electronic risks like "Check My Machine," but their absence only underscores one fact: McCartney made more great music than what can fit on even a four-disc box. Pure McCartney gets closer to capturing the full range of his career than any of his previous compilations, but it's still only an introduction to one of the richest bodies of work in pop music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/17/2016
Label:	Imports
UPC:	4988031142134
Rank:	53687

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Paul McCartney   Primary Artist,Conductor
Keith Harvey   Primary Artist
Robert Hurst   Primary Artist
Snake Davis   Primary Artist
Paul "Wix" Wickens   Primary Artist
Michael Jackson   Primary Artist
Brian Ray   Primary Artist
Blair Cunningham   Primary Artist
Stuart Elliot   Primary Artist
Anne Dudley   Primary Artist
David Gilmour   Primary Artist
Abe Laboriel, Jr.   Primary Artist
Howie Casey   Primary Artist,Soloist
Stevie Wonder   Primary Artist
Geoff Britton   Primary Artist
Pedro Eustache   Primary Artist
Henry McCullough   Primary Artist
Herbie Flowers   Primary Artist
Youth   Primary Artist
Paul Epworth   Primary Artist
Joe English   Primary Artist
Carlos Alomar   Primary Artist
Jamie Talbot   Primary Artist
Steve Holley   Primary Artist
Steve Howard   Primary Artist
Simon Chamberlain   Primary Artist
The Fireman   Primary Artist
Kevin Robinson   Primary Artist
Caroline Dale   Primary Artist
Jimmy McCulloch   Primary Artist
Laurence Juber   Primary Artist
Steve Sidwell   Primary Artist
Eric Stewart   Primary Artist
Ethan Johns   Primary Artist
Eddie Rayner   Primary Artist
Karriem Riggins   Primary Artist
Rusty Anderson   Primary Artist
Eric Clapton   Primary Artist
Ringo Starr   Primary Artist
David Spinozza   Primary Artist
Jeff Lynne   Primary Artist
John Pizzarelli   Primary Artist
Denny Seiwell   Primary Artist
Diana Krall   Primary Artist
Jerry Marotta   Primary Artist
Hugh McCracken   Primary Artist
Robbie McIntosh   Primary Artist
London Orchestra   Primary Artist
Philip Jones   Primary Artist
Ian Jewel   Primary Artist
Gavin Wright   Primary Artist
Libera Boys Choir   Primary Artist,Orchestra
The Millennia Ensemble   Primary Artist
Adrian Sheppard   Primary Artist
Thaddeus Richard   Primary Artist
Denny Laine   Primary Artist
Linda McCartney   Primary Artist
Dave Bishop   Primary Artist
Tom Scott   Primary Artist
Hamish Stuart   Primary Artist
Wings   Primary Artist
Dave Mason   Primary Artist
Tony Dorsey   Primary Artist
Sid Sharp   Primary Artist
James Kippen   Primary Artist
Frog Chorus   Primary Artist
John "Brad" Bradbury   Primary Artist
Jack Rothstein   Primary Artist
Bernard Partridge   Primary Artist
Ben Foster   Conductor,Conductor
Joby Talbot   Conductor
Alan Broadbent   Conductor
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble   Orchestra
Ray Cooper   Percussion
Tony Visconti   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Richard Haughton   Photography
Adam Miller   Assistant
Mirek Stiles   Assistant
Nicolas Essig   Engineer,Assistant
Toby Pitman   Programming
Jamie Kirkham   Engineer,Assistant,Sound Assistant
Tyler Hartman   Assistant
Kris Burton   Assistant
John Hammel   Sound Assistant
Tom Bailey   Assistant
Sam O'Kell   Engineer,Assistant,Remastering
Bill Rahko   Engineer,Assistant
Alex Wharton   Mastering,Remastering
Dom Monks   Engineer
Robert Mallory   Assistant
Dave Bogart   Publishing
Mary McCartney   Photography
Laurence Anslow   Assistant
Geoff Swan   Assistant
David Dagley   Photography
Eddie Anslow   Assistant
Jon Jacobs   Engineer,Assistant
Robin Black   Engineer
Linda McCartney   Harmony,Composer,Producer,Cover Photo,Photography
Pete Henderson   Mixing,Engineer,Assistant
Nigel Godrich   Producer
Adam Noble   Engineer
Tim Bran   Programming
Alan O'Duffy   Mixing,Engineer
Al Schmitt   Mixing,Engineer
Stuart Breed   Assistant
Mark Vigars   Assistant
Guy Massey   Remastering
Giles Martin   Producer,Additional Production
Glyn Johns   Engineer
Tony Dorsey   Arranger,String Arrangements
Phil Macdonald   Mixing,Engineer
Matt Wiggins   Engineer
Fernando Lodeiro   Assistant
Nancy Jeffries   A&R
Alan Yoshida   Mastering
Chris Thomas   Producer
Teri Reed   Assistant
Simon Gibson   Remastering
Pete Swettenham   Assistant
Keith Smith   Assistant,Sound Assistant
John Prestage   Assistant
Graham Hughes   Photography
Scott Rodger   Project Manager
Dixon Van Winkle   Mixing,Engineer
Gordon Davidson   Assistant
Ben Foster   Arranger,Arranger
Eirik the Norwegian   Mixing
Eirik Wangberg   Mixing
Steve Rooke   Remastering
Hugh Padgham   Producer,Mixing,Engineer
Julian Mendelsohn   Producer
Joby Talbot   Arranger
Peter Cobbin   Engineer
Darrell Thorp   Mixing,Engineer
Phil McDonald   Mixing,Engineer
Richard Lush   Engineer
Mike Stavrou   Engineer,Assistant
David Nock   Programming
Michael Jackson   Composer
Dan Grech-Marguerat   Assistant
Brian Montgomery   Engineer
Tommy LiPuma   Producer
Alan Broadbent   Arranger,Orchestral Arrangements
Paul Pritchard   Assistant
Tim Geelan   Engineer
Renate Blauel   Assistant
George Martin   Arranger,Producer,Orchestration
Josh Blair   Engineer
Sangwook "Sunny" Nam   Mastering
Youth   Producer
Andrew Dudman   Engineer
Ted Brosnan   Assistant
Steve Churchyard   Assistant
Steve Genewick   Engineer
Paul Epworth   Composer,Producer
Fiachra Trench   Arranger
Ernie Winfrey   Engineer
David Hentschel   Engineer
David Katz   Contractor,Orchestra Contractor
John Leckie   Engineer
Denny Laine   Composer
Paul McCartney   Executive Producer,Mixing,Harmony,Arranger,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Remixing
Alan Parsons   Mixing,Engineer
Steve Orchard   Remixing
Biff Dawes   Assistant
Bob Kraushaar   Mixing,Engineer
Kevin Mills   Engineer,Assistant
Bill Price   Mixing,Engineer
Elliot Scheiner   Engineer
Clive Goddard   Mixing,Engineer
Tony Visconti   Orchestration
Eddie Klein   Engineer,Assistant,Sound Assistant,Mixing Assistant
Ethan Johns   Producer
Doug Sax   Mastering
Geoff Emerick   Mixing,Engineer
David Kahne   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Jeff Lynne   Composer,Producer
Mark "Spike" Stent   Mixing
Mark Ronson   Producer
Jon Kelly   Mixing,Engineer,Assistant
Tony Clark   Mixing
Paul Hicks   Assistant
Ted Jensen   Mastering