Crossroads Theme
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- Album This song officially appears on the Venus and Mars Official album.
Song facts
Why did you record the ‘Crossroads’ theme?
It’s a joke. It’s after ‘Lonely Old People’, you see, they’re kind of sitting there in the park saying ‘Nobody asked me to play?’ It’s a kind of poignant moment, and then there’s a little break and then ‘Crossroads’ starts up, and that’s very… it’s lonely old people, y’know, it’s kind of just the kind of thing that lonely old people watch. It could just as easily have been ‘Coronation Street’, but we knew the chords to ‘Crossroads’. No, I just thought that it would be just nice to do it. The thing is that for people who haven’t heard it and don’t know the whole ‘Crossroads’ thing, like Americans, like a fellow who was helping me arrange this stuff, he just thought it was just a lovely tune. He thought I’d written it. He just thought it was a beautiful little tune, and it is. I quite like it as tune, y’know, the ‘Crossroads’ thing. It fitted. Originally it was just a joke, but as it recorded, it ended up as less of a joke.
And I just wanted to see Tony Hatch after he realised that we’d recorded one of his numbers on our new album. I want to tell him.
Paul McCartney – Interview with New Musical Express, July 26, 1975
Last updated on July 30, 2022
Officially appears on
Official album • Released in 1975
1:16 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Strings arrangement
- Linda McCartney :
- Organ
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Lead guitar
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Sid Sharp Strings :
- Bass, Celli, Violas, Violins
- Gayle Levant :
- Harp
- Tony Dorsey :
- Strings arrangement
- Alan O'Duffy :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Biff Dawes :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jan 31, 1975
- Studio :
- Sea-Saint Recording Studio, New Orleans, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 10, 1975
- Studio :
- Sunset Sound Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- February 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Mar 27, 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Official album • Released in 1993
1:16 • Studio version • A1993 • 1993 remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Strings arrangement
- Linda McCartney :
- Organ
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Lead guitar
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Sid Sharp Strings :
- Bass, Celli, Violas, Violins
- Gayle Levant :
- Harp
- Tony Dorsey :
- Strings arrangement
- Alan O'Duffy :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Biff Dawes :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Peter Mew :
- Remastering
- Session Recording:
- Jan 31, 1975
- Studio :
- Sea-Saint Recording Studio, New Orleans, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 10, 1975
- Studio :
- Sunset Sound Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- February 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Mar 27, 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Venus And Mars - Archive Collection
Official album • Released in 2014
1:16 • Studio version • A2014
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Strings arrangement
- Linda McCartney :
- Organ
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Lead guitar
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Sid Sharp Strings :
- Bass, Celli, Violas, Violins
- Gayle Levant :
- Harp
- Tony Dorsey :
- Strings arrangement
- Alan O'Duffy :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Biff Dawes :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jan 31, 1975
- Studio :
- Sea-Saint Recording Studio, New Orleans, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 10, 1975
- Studio :
- Sunset Sound Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- February 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Mar 27, 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Venus And Mars (Limited Red & Yellow LP)
Official album • Released in 2017
1:16 • Studio version • A2014
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Producer, Strings arrangement
- Linda McCartney :
- Organ
- Denny Laine :
- Acoustic guitar
- Jimmy McCulloch :
- Lead guitar
- Joe English :
- Drums
- Sid Sharp Strings :
- Bass, Celli, Violas, Violins
- Gayle Levant :
- Harp
- Tony Dorsey :
- Strings arrangement
- Alan O'Duffy :
- Mixing engineer, Recording engineer
- Biff Dawes :
- Assistant mixing engineer
- Session Recording:
- Jan 31, 1975
- Studio :
- Sea-Saint Recording Studio, New Orleans, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 10, 1975
- Studio :
- Sunset Sound Recorders Studio, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Overdubs:
- February 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
- Session Mixing:
- Mar 27, 1975
- Studio :
- Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Bootlegs
Latest concerts where Crossroads Theme has been played
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.