UK Release date : Saturday, March 24, 1990
By Various Artists • Official album • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney as producer, composer, or session musician in the 90s”
Last updated on May 25, 2020
Previous album Jun 05, 1989 • "Flowers In The Dirt" by Paul McCartney released in the US
Concert Mar 11, 1990 • Japan • Tokyo
Concert Mar 13, 1990 • Japan • Tokyo
Album Mar 24, 1990 • "The Last Temptation of Elvis: An All-Star Tribute" by Various Artists released in the UK
Concert Mar 29, 1990 • USA • Seattle
Concert Mar 31, 1990 • USA • Berkeley
Next album Dec 14, 1990 • "Liverpool Press Conference June 1990" by Paul McCartney released globally
This album was recorded during the following studio sessions:
Jul 20, 1987
Jul 22, 1987
Viva Las Vegas
3:30 • Studio version
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
1:47 • Studio version
Loving You
2:16 • Studio version
Let's Have A Party
3:42 • Studio version
Trouble
2:39 • Studio version
Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do
2:29 • Studio version
Love Me Tender
3:08 • Studio version
Written by Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold, Eduardo di Capua
3:03 • Studio version • A
Paul McCartney : Bass, Producer, Vocal Mick Green : Guitar Chris Whitten : Drums Mick Gallagher : Piano Peter Henderson : Recording engineer
Session Recording: Jul 20, 1987 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Mixing: Jul 22, 1987 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Blue Suede Shoes
3:11 • Studio version
Mean Woman Blues
4:03 • Studio version
Guitar Man
3:44 • Studio version
King Creole
2:16 • Studio version
Young And Beautiful
4:58 • Studio version
(There's) No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car
2:43 • Studio version
Baby I Don't Care
1:59 • Studio version
Can't Help Falling In Love
4:18 • Studio version
Crawfish
3:39 • Studio version
Return To Sender
2:39 • Studio version
Thanks To The Rolling Sea
3:40 • Studio version
Follow That Dream
3:14 • Studio version
Wooden Heart
2:27 • Studio version
Down In The Alley
3:29 • Studio version
Jailhouse Rock
2:28 • Studio version
Marguerita
2:13 • Studio version
Rock-A-Hula-Baby
4:34 • Studio version
King Of The Whole Wide World
2:04 • Studio version
From Cover Me blog:
In 1990, the New Musical Express presented The Last Temptation of Elvis, a collection of covers from Elvis Presley movies designed to benefit the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre in London. Executive producer and NME journalist Roy Carr landed some big names – Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, and Robert Plant all showed up – and some even bigger tonal shifts. The album careens from rock to a capella to parody to metal and ends up with the King himself performing “King of the Whole Wide World.” “No performance implies any other,” Greil Marcus said about the album in his book Dead Elvis. “There’s no way to predict what anyone will have to say.”
Only that they’ll be singing an Elvis tune from the soundtracks to his movies, and that’s no guarantee of quality tunes – Viv Stanshall delights in covering the embarrassment that is “(There’s) No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car.” This is a project that delights in refusing to take itself seriously – the liner notes include an essay “written” by Elvis, musing about why he didn’t wind up in “The Other Place, the real warm place”; they also ask its artists a bunch of silly questions, with the Pogues’ Shane McGowan easily providing the best answers. Q. Which one of Elvis’s physical or mental characteristics do you most envy? A. His dentist! Q. If you bumped into Elvis this very day, what would be your immediate reaction? A. “Buy us a Cadillac!” Q. Have you ever rhumba’d in the back of a sports car? A. No! but I’ve thrown up in a transit!“The whole project is of course a dare,” Marcus states. “The singers daring Elvis, daring his most degraded, greatest-shit material to give something back; Elvis daring the singers to find life in songs where so often he only found humiliation.” There’s plenty of life and affection to be found in the results. […]
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