Recording studio: Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
Session Started May 11, 1995 • Recording "If You Wanna"
Session May 15-16, 1995 • Recording "Real Love", "All For Love"
Session May 18, 1995 • Recording "Whole Life"
Session Circa March 1995 to 1996 • Editing / mixing of the "Anthology" tracks
Some of the songs worked on during this session were first released on the "Flaming Pie - Archive Collection" Official album.
On this day, Paul McCartney started working on a track called “Whole Life” with Dave Stewart, from Eurythmics. Work on this track would continue in November of the same year. The work from those sessions would remain unreleased until the release of a rough mix on the 2020 Flaming Pie Archive Collection.
“Whole Life” would be re-recorded in 2003, still with Dave Steward, and released on the “One Year On 46664” charity album.
Written by Paul McCartney, Dave Stewart
Recording
Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium
We owe a lot to Chip Madinger and Mark Easter for the creation of those session pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details!
Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium is the ultimate look at the careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr beyond the Beatles. Every aspect of their professional careers as solo artists is explored, from recording sessions, record releases and tours, to television, film and music videos, including everything in between. From their early film soundtrack work to the officially released retrospectives, all solo efforts by the four men are exhaustively examined.
As the paperback version is out of print, you can buy a PDF version on the authors' website
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