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UK Release date : Monday, July 7, 1997

The World Tonight / Used To Be Bad

By Paul McCartney7" Single • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney • Singles

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Side 1

  1. The World Tonight

    Written by Paul McCartney

    4:03 • Studio versionA

    Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Bass guitar, Drums, Electric guitar, Harmony vocal, Lead vocal, Percussion, Piano, Producer Jeff Lynne : Acoustic guitar, Electric guitar, Harmony vocal, Keyboard, Producer Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jon Jacobs : Recording engineer Keith Smith : Assistant engineer

    Session Recording: Nov 13-17, 1995 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK

    Session Overdubs ?: February 1996 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK

Side 2

  1. Used To Be Bad

    Written by Paul McCartney, Steve Miller

    4:08 • Studio versionA

    Paul McCartney : Bass guitar, Drums, Lead vocal, Producer Steve Miller : Electric guitar, Lead vocal Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Jon Jacobs : Recording engineer Keith Smith : Assistant engineer

    Session Recording: May 05, 1995 • Studio Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK


The lyrics were just gathering thoughts. Like ‘I go back so far, I’m in front of me’. I don’t know where that came from, but if I’d been writing with John he would have gone ‘Ok, leave that one in; we don’t know what it means but we do know what it means’.

Paul McCartney, from the back cover
Paul McCartney writing

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