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Run Devil Run was recorded a year after Linda’s sad death in 1998. At the time, Paul recounted his reasons for making it: “People have said to me one of the things to get over a tragedy is to stay really busy, really busy, but I thought, no, I am not going to do that. I see that one but it’s just too easy. It’s a bit like denial. So, I thought, well, for at least a year I am not going to do that. So I didn’t. I just did whatever came along, or whatever I felt good about. But I thought, well maybe after the end of a year I will start to think of what I want to do, and the immediate project that I had been talking to Linda about was the rock and roll album.” Featuring covers of obscure and familiar songs from the 1950s alongside three new songs written in the same style, Run Devil Run saw Paul return to work with some familiar faces, most notably Back To The Egg producer Chris Thomas and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. As Paul said at the time, “In a way I am glad with this rock and roll album that I have got back to my roots, it will reassure anyone who thinks ‘He’s gone all classical now,’ that that is not the case. It’s just another of the things I do. I still love my kind of rock and roll music.”
Last updated on December 23, 2019
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No Other Baby / Brown Eyed Handsome Man
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
No Other Baby / Brown Eyed Handsome Man
By Paul McCartney • CD Single
Related bootlegs
Michael Parkinson Show - complete live performance & rehearsals
By Paul McCartney • Unofficial live
By Paul McCartney • Unofficial album
Related songs
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Officially appears on No Other Baby / Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
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Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Officially appears on Run Devil Run
Related films
Brown Eyed Handsome Man (version 1)
1999 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by David Leland
Brown Eyed Handsome Man (version 2)
1999 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Joel Gallen
1999 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Pedro Romhanyi
1999 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Joel Gallen
Paul McCartney Live at The Cavern Club
1999 • For Paul McCartney • Directed by Geoff Wonfor
Related Concerts, TV & radio shows

Dec 14, 1999 • United Kingdom • Liverpool • The Cavern Club
Dec 03, 1999 • United Kingdom • London • BBC Television Center, Studio 6 • TV show

Nov 20, 1999 • United Kingdom • Newcastle • Tyne Tees Studios • TV show

Red Alert With The National Lottery
Nov 13, 1999 • United Kingdom • Windsor • Bray Film Studios • TV show
Nov 06, 1999 • United Kingdom • London • BBC Centre Wood Lane • TV show
Sep 18, 1999 • USA • Hollywood • Paramount Studios
Related sessions
Mar 01, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
Mar 02, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
Mar 03, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
Mar 04, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
Mar 05, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
May 04, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
May 05, 1999 • Songs recorded during this session appear on Run Devil Run
Related interviews
Paul McCartney Gets Back To The 50s
Nov 01, 1999 • From Record Collector
November 1999 • From MOJO
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This album (Run Devil Run), along with Off The Ground, Driving Rain and Chaos And Creation In The Backyard were reissued by Hear Music. I had hoped to find the exact date of those release on the internet - somewhere, but unfortunately, it wasn't to be. Any ideas?