Paul McCartney "Wingspan: Hits and History"

Wingspan: Hits and History is a greatest hits compilation album by Paul McCartney featuring material spanning his first solo album McCartney in 1970 to the 1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street movie soundtrack.

Wingspan is separated into two distinct sets: the "Hits" disc features commercially successful material, while "History" showcases lesser-known songs from the same period. American and British editions of the album vary slightly, as the UK edition contains the studio version of "Coming Up" while the US edition contains "Coming Up (Live at Glasgow)", which was more popular there. The Japanese version of the album also includes "Eat at Home", which had been issued as a single in Japan.

Released in 2001 in conjunction with a prime time TV documentary, similarly called Wingspan, the associated soundtrack was a commercial success. In the United States, it went straight to number 2 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 221,000 copies in the first week of its release. The album charted there for 14 weeks, selling approximately 970,000 units as of 2005. Wingspan has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and also reached gold status in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. A DVD release of the broadcast documentary – which dealt with McCartney's relationship with Linda Eastman and their eventual marriage, the traumatic final year of the Beatles' career and his own role in their break-up, and the story of Wings' formation and career through the 1970s towards their dissolution in 1980 – was produced by Mary McCartney, who also interviewed her father in the film.

Track listing

Disc 1: Hits

All tracks are written by Paul & Linda McCartney, except where noted.

1. "Listen to What the Man Said" (from Venus and Mars, 1975) Wings 3:57
2. "Band on the Run" (from Band on the Run, 1973) Paul McCartney and Wings 5:13
3. "Another Day" (Non-album single, 1971) Paul McCartney 3:43
4. "Live and Let Die" (from the Live and Let Die soundtrack, 1973) Paul McCartney and Wings 3:12
5. "Jet" (from Band on the Run) Paul McCartney and Wings 4:08
6. "My Love" (from Red Rose Speedway, 1973) Paul McCartney and Wings 4:08
7. "Silly Love Songs" (from Wings at the Speed of Sound, 1976) Wings 5:55
8. "Pipes of Peace" (from Pipes of Peace, 1983) P. McCartney Paul McCartney 3:26
9. "C Moon" (Non-album single, 1972) Wings 4:35
10. "Hi, Hi, Hi" (Non-album single, 1972) Wings 3:09
11. "Let 'Em In" (from Wings at the Speed of Sound) Wings 5:10
12. "Goodnight Tonight" (Non-album single, 1979) P. McCartney Wings 4:21
13. "Junior's Farm" (DJ edit; non-album single, 1974) Paul McCartney and Wings 3:03
14. "Mull of Kintyre" (Non-album single, 1977) P. McCartney, Denny Laine Wings 4:45
15. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" (from Ram, 1971) Paul and Linda McCartney 4:50
16. "With a Little Luck" (DJ edit; original version from London Town, 1978) P. McCartney Wings 3:13
17. "Coming Up" (from McCartney II, 1980) P. McCartney Paul McCartney 3:53
18. "No More Lonely Nights" (from Give My Regards to Broad Street, 1984) P. McCartney Paul McCartney 4:47

Total length: 75:38

Disc 2: History

All tracks are written by Paul McCartney except where noted.

1. "Let Me Roll It" (from Band on the Run) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings 4:51
2. "The Lovely Linda" (from McCartney, 1970) Paul McCartney 0:45
3. "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" (B-side to the "Goodnight Tonight" single, 1979) Wings 3:23
4. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (from McCartney) Paul McCartney 3:52
5. "Helen Wheels" (Non-album single/Band on the Run [US edition only], 1973) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings 3:46
6. "Bluebird" (from Band on the Run) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings 3:26
7. "Heart of the Country" (from Ram) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul and Linda McCartney 2:24
8. "Every Night" (from McCartney) Paul McCartney 2:34
9. "Take It Away" (Single version; original version from Tug of War, 1982) Paul McCartney 4:05
10. "Junk" (from McCartney) Paul McCartney 1:57
11. "Man We Was Lonely" (from McCartney) Paul McCartney 2:59
12. "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" (Single edit; original version from Venus and Mars) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 3:46
13. "The Back Seat of My Car" (from Ram) Paul and Linda McCartney 4:29
14. "Rockestra Theme" (from Back to the Egg, 1979) Wings 2:36
15. "Girlfriend" (from London Town) Wings 4:44
16. "Waterfalls" (DJ edit; original version from McCartney II) Paul McCartney 3:24
17. "Tomorrow" (from Wild Life, 1971) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 3:27
18. "Too Many People" (from Ram) Paul and Linda McCartney 4:12
19. "Call Me Back Again" (from Venus and Mars) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Wings 4:59
20. "Tug of War" (Single version; original version from Tug of War) Paul McCartney 4:04
21. "Bip Bop/Hey Diddle" (Previously unreleased; recorded in 1971) P. McCartney, L. McCartney Paul and Linda McCartney 3:36
22. "No More Lonely Nights" (Playout version) (Edit; original version from Give My Regards to Broad Street) Paul McCartney 3:55

Total length: 77:26

Pat Benatar "Crimes Of Passion"

Crimes of Passion is the second studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on August 5, 1980 by Chrysalis Records. The album is the first to feature Myron Grombacher on drums, beginning a long tenure in Benatar's band that would last into the late-1990s.

The album debuted on the US Billboard 200 album chart the week ending August 23 and held at No. 2 for five weeks in the US in January 1981, behind John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy. It contains the hits "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" (US No. 9), "You Better Run" (US No. 42), "Treat Me Right" (US No. 18), plus a cover of Kate Bush's international hit, "Wuthering Heights". Crimes of Passion is Benatar's biggest selling career album, having been certified 4x Platinum (for shipments of over four million copies) in the United States alone. In Billboard magazine's year end chart, Crimes of Passion was listed at number 5.

The song "Hell Is for Children", which was not released as an A-side single, was also a hit on album-rock stations. A live version of this song from her album Live from Earth (1983) was released as the B-side of her "Love Is a Battlefield" single three years later. The song was featured in the 1981 animated film American Pop, as well as on the soundtrack.

In 1981, Benatar won her first Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance thanks to Crimes of Passion.

The music video for the song "You Better Run" was the second music video ever aired on MTV in 1981.

Crimes of Passion was reissued and remastered on Capitol Records in 2006.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Treat Me Right" Doug Lubah 3:24
2. "You Better Run" (The Young Rascals cover) Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere 3:02
3. "Never Wanna Leave You" Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar 3:13
4. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" Eddie Schwartz 2:51
5. "Hell Is for Children" Giraldo, Benatar, Roger Capps 4:48

Side two

1. "Little Paradise" Giraldo 3:32
2. "I'm Gonna Follow You" Billy Steinberg 4:28
3. "Wuthering Heights" (Kate Bush cover) Kate Bush 4:28
4. "Prisoner of Love" Scott St. Clair Sheets 3:05
5. "Out-A-Touch" Giraldo, Benatar, Myron Grombacher 4:19

Produced by Keith Olsen

Engineered by Keith Olsen and Chris Minto at Sound City Studios

Mastered by Greg Fulginiti and Jo Hansch at Artisan Sound Recorders

Ria Lewerke-Shapiro - art direction and cover design

Leon LeCash - photographer

Orgy "Vapor Transmission"

Vapor Transmission is the second album by American Industrial rock band Orgy. It was released on October 10, 2000.

The first 1000 pressings (as well as the Japanese release) of the album included a bonus track known as "The Spectrum", which starts at the 6 minute mark of the last track "Where's Gerrold". Some packages of this album included an enhanced CD that contained a demo version of the song "Stitches," a remix, and a video for the single "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)". The aforementioned single received significant radio play upon release, reaching number 6 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. A second single, "Opticon", had more moderate success, and was featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 horror film Valentine. "Suckerface" and "Eva" were also released as promotional singles.

Vapor Transmission largely continues the style heard on Candyass. However, while the electronic effects remain prominent, heavily distorted guitars are slightly de-emphasized with a strong focus on melody.

Track listing

1. "Vapor Transmission (Intro)" 2:15
2. "Suckerface" 3:28
3. "The Odyssey" 2:56
4. "Opticon" 2:58
5. "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" 3:25
6. "Eva" 5:02
7. "107" 4:14
8. "Dramatica" 3:33
9. "Eyes-Radio-Lies" 3:58
10. "Saving Faces" 4:06
11. "Re-Creation" 3:32
12. "Chasing Sirens" 3:59
13. "Where's Gerrold" 4:11

Total length: 47:35

Early pressing version

1. "Where's Gerrold" (Contains "The Spectrum" as a hidden track at 6:11) 10:33

Total length: 53:57

"The Spectrum" was later featured on the compilation album MTV: The Return of the Rock, Vol. 2.

Another song recorded during these sessions was "Sonic", among other demos.

"Where's Gerrold" is named for a visitor at the recording home of Orgy. He can be seen on the Trans Global Spectacle DVD, holding a pierced teddy bear.

"Eva" is named after the album's co-producer Josh Abraham's mother, who died during the recording of the album.

New Order "True Faith (Single & Video)"

"True Faith" is a song by New Order, co-written and co-produced by the band and Stephen Hague. It was the first New Order single since their debut "Ceremony" to be issued in the UK as two separate 12" singles. The second 12" single features two remixes of "True Faith" by Shep Pettibone. Both versions of the 12" (and also the edited 7") include the song "1963". "True Faith" is one of New Order's most popular songs.

The single peaked at No. 4 in the United Kingdom on its original release in 1987. "True Faith" became New Order's first single to chart in the Hot 100 and would also go on to be a top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at No. 32.

A "True Faith" remix 12" single and CD single were released in 1994, and another "True Faith" remix 12" single and CD single were released in 2001. The 1994 remix charted in the UK at No. 9.

New Order wrote and recorded "True Faith" and "1963" during a 10-day studio session with producer Stephen Hague. The two songs were written as new material for New Order's first singles compilation album, Substance 1987. After the two songs were recorded, the band's US management decided that "True Faith" was the stronger track and would be released as the new single, with "1963" as the B-side ("1963" was remixed and issued as a single in its own right in 1994).

"That wasn't really a happy period in New Order's life," recalled Peter Hook. "Let's just say it was a bit of a battle for me to get on there at all, apart from in the sense of helping write the song. Musically, we were moving more towards straight dance and I was keen on keeping the New Order I'd known and loved. I eventually managed to get my bass on the original version. But, of course, the first thing any remixers do is take off my bass and put their own on. I sometimes feel like attaching a note saying, How about keeping the bass?"

"True Faith" was never a track on a regular album, though it did appear on most of New Order's "best of" collections (Substance 1987, The Best of New Order, Retro, International, Singles and Total). The first public performance of the song took place at the 1987 Glastonbury Festival; this version appears on the group's BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert album.

The original 7" version of the song did not appear on any album until 2011's Total: From Joy Division to New Order.

The release of "True Faith" was accompanied by a surreal music video directed and choreographed by Philippe Decouflé and produced by Michael H. Shamberg.

The opening sequence showing two men slapping each other, is a reference to Marina Abramović and Ulay's video performance Light/ Dark shot in 1977. Costumed dancers then leap about, fight and slap each other in time to the music, while a person in dark green makeup emerges from an upside-down boxer's speed bag and hand signs the lyrics (in LSF) . The video has often been voted amongst the best music videos of its year. Sky Television's channel The Amp, for instance, has it rated as the best video of 1987, Smash Hits magazine's readers rated it as the 3rd best video of 1987 and it won the British Video of the Year in 1988. The video was inspired by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett.

The overall tonality, themes and various elements from the video re-occurred in Decouflé's scenography and choreography for the inauguration ceremonies of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

As is the case for many New Order songs of this period, the words in the title do not appear anywhere in the lyrics.

The original lyrics included a verse that read "Now that we've grown up together/They're all taking drugs with me". Hague convinced Sumner to change the latter line to "They're afraid of what they see" because he was worried that otherwise it would not get played on the radio. When performing the song live, the band have usually used the original line.

During a live performance in 1993 in Reading, Sumner replaced the first lines of the second verse with the lyrics "When I was a very small boy, Michael Jackson played with me. Now that we've grown up together, he's playing with my willy." as a topical reference to the allegations of sexual abuse against the singer.

"True Faith" was recorded at Advision Studio One, with production by New Order and Stephen Hague and was engineered by David Jacob. According to Hague, the studio featured "...a first generation SSL board and big old Urei Time Align monitors. "True Faith" was created using a wide range of electronic musical equipment. According to an interview in 'Sound On Sound' by Richard Buskin, Hague notes that New Order provided a Yamaha QX 1, an Octave Voyetra 8 polyphonic synthesizer, a Yamaha DX 5 and an Akai S900 sampler, while he provided an E-mu Emulator II and an E-mu SP12.

Track listing

1987 release

All tracks are written by Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Hague, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner; except where indicated.

7": FAC 183/7 (UK)

1. "True Faith" 4:02
2. "1963" 5:32

7": Qwest 7-28271 (US)

1. "True Faith (The Morning Sun)" (Remixed by Shep Pettibone) 4:02
2. "1963" 5:32

12" #1: FAC 183 (UK)

1. "True Faith" 5:55
2. "1963" 5:32

12" #2: FAC 183R (UK) - True Faith Remix

1. "True Faith (Remix)" (Remixed by Shep Pettibone, US title: "True Faith (The Morning Sun Extended Remix)") 8:59
2. "1963" 5:32
3. "True Dub" (Remixed by Shep Pettibone, US title: "True Faith (Alternate Faith Dub)") 10:41

Video CD (PAL): FACDV 183 (UK)

1. "True Faith (12-inch remix)" (Remixed by Shep Pettibone) 8:59
2. "Evil Dust" Gilbert, Hook, Morris, Sumner 3:43
3. "True Faith (7-inch)" (Actually Shep Pettibone's 'The Morning Sun Remix/Edit' and not the regular UK 7" version) 4:06
4. "True Faith" (Video) 4:20

Released 28 August 1988.

True Faith-94 release

All tracks are written by Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Hague, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.

7": NUO5 / Cassette: NUOMC 5 (UK & Europe)

1. "True Faith-94 (Radio Edit)" 4:28
2. "True Faith-94 (Perfecto Radio Edit)" (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) 4:05

12": NUOX 5 (UK & Europe)

1. "True Faith-94 (Perfecto Mix)" (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) 6:23
2. "True Faith-94 (Sexy Disco Dub)" (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) 5:49
3. "True Faith-94 (TWA Grim Up North Mix)" (Remixed by TWA - P. Fryer, P. Dillon and N. Raphael) 6:11
4. "True Faith-94 (The 94 Remix)" 5:34

CD: NUOCD 5 (UK & Europe)

1. "True Faith-94 (Radio Edit)" 4:28
2. "True Faith-94 (Perfecto Radio Edit)" (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) 4:05
3. "True Faith-94 (Perfecto Mix)" (Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne) 6:23
4. "True Faith-94 (12" Version)" 5:34
5. "True Faith-94 (TWA Grim Up North Mix)" (Remixed by TWA - P. Fryer, P. Dillon and N. Raphael) 6:11