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- UK release date:
- Jun 05, 1989
- US release date:
- Jun 05, 1989
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Mixing technology with traditional instruments such as brass, strings and organ, Flowers In The Dirt featured several tracks composed with fellow musician Elvis Costello. The album – seen by many as a strong return to form – also featured musicians that Paul would come to use regularly like Hamish Stuart, Robbie McIntosh and Chris Whitten, and production from the likes of Trevor Horn, Mitchell Froom and Steve Lipson. The album crashed into the UK charts at Number 1 in June 1989 and spent nearly a year in the US charts. Specifically recorded with a view to live performance (the huge Paul McCartney World Tour started in September of that year), the album has a strongly cohesive feel to it. But it was a personal album, too, with the single ‘Put It There’ inspired by Paul’s father. “’Put it there’ was an expression my dad used to say when we were kids. He used to hold his hand out and say, ‘Put it there if it weighs a ton.’ My dad died a long time ago now, but you remember those things with affection. And so I wrote a song about that, which I think will become one of my favourites.”
Last updated on July 31, 2021
Special editions
By Paul McCartney • Official album
Flowers In The Dirt - Archive Collection
By Paul McCartney • Official album
Flowers In The Dirt - Special Package
By Paul McCartney • Official album
Flowers In The Dirt - The cassette demos
By Paul McCartney • Cassette
By Paul McCartney • 12" Single
Related singles
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
Figure Of Eight / Ou Est Le Soleil?
By Paul McCartney • 12" Single
Figure Of Eight / This One (Club Lovejoys Mix)
By Paul McCartney • 12" Single
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
My Brave Face / Flying To My Home
By Paul McCartney • 7" Single
By Paul McCartney • 12" Single
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
Put It There / Mama's Little Girl
By Paul McCartney • 7" Single
By Paul McCartney • 12" Single
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
By Paul McCartney • 7" Single
Related bootlegs
Flowers In The Dirt - Ultimate Archive Collection
By Paul McCartney • Unofficial album
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Related sessions
September - October 1984 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" sessions with Elvis Costello
January - March 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" sessions at Hog Hill Mill
April - July 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" sessions with Mitchell Froom & Neil Dorfsman
September - November 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" sessions with Chris Hughes / Ross Cullum
January 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" session #7
Sept - Oct 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
April 26-28th, 1989
April 20-21, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Ou Est Le Soleil?
January 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 28, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 16, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 19, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 26, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 20, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 08, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 23, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Mixing "Don't Be Careless Love"
Jan 14, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 12, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 06, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
"Flowers In The Dirt" session #1 with Trevor Horn & Steve Lipson
October - November 1987 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Oct 05, 1987 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Oct 06, 1987 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Nov 09, 1987 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Recording "You Want Her Too", "Don't Be Careless Love"
Feb 01, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Oct 31, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Recording "Don't Be Careless Love"
Oct 27, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Recording "Don't Be Careless Love"
Friday, October 28-29, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Mar 03, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
May 06, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Orchestral overdubs for "Distractions"
Nov 01, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Oct 01, 1984 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Dec 01, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Apr 22, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Orchestra overdubs for "Put It There"
Nov 28, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
May 18, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Sep 08, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 12, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jan 30, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Jun 23, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Dec 10, 1988 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Flowers In The Dirt
Feb 27, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on This One
Sep 14, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Figure of Eight
Recording and mixing "Party Party"
Oct 11, 1989 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Party Party
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Behind the Songs: Paul McCartney Shares Intimate Memories of Recording Flowers in the Dirt
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Mar 16, 2017 • From The Washington Post
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Mar 13, 2017 • From RollingStone
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