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Bill Harry. "The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia"The Beatles 1963-1970

BILL HARRY. THE PAUL MCCARTNEY ENCYCLOPEDIAName and AddressA track on the London Town album. It was recorded at Abbey RoadStudios and featured Paul on lead guitar. Jimmy McCulloch and JoeEnglish had already left Wings at the time this track was recorded.

Hank Marvin, guitarist with the Shadows, dropped in on the session,although he didn't play. The number was Paul's tribute to ElvisPresley.Nashville Diary 1979A bootleg album (PRO 1234) containing tracks recorded by Wingsduring rehearsal sessions in Nashville in the summer of 1974. Theyincluded numbers such as 'My Love', 'One Hand Clapping', 'Hi, Hi,Hi' and 'Soily'.National Poetry DayPaul appeared at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London onThursday 4 October 2001 to read his poetry on the 21st anniversaryof 'Poetry Olympics'; it was also the eighth year of National PoetryDay, which had originally been launched at Westminster Abbey to

celebrate excellence in British poetry.Paul read excerpts from Blackbird Singing, his first time in London,having read his poetry previously in Liverpool and at the HaysFestival.Also at the Queen's Theatre event were Adrian Mitchell, MichaelHorovitz and Frieda Hughes, daughter of the late Poet Laureate TedHughes and Sylvia Plath.New Clubmoor HallA Liverpool venue run by local promoter Charlie McBain, situated tothe rear of Broadway, Norris Green. This is the venue where Paulmade his debut as a member of the Quarry Men on Friday 18 October1957.The other members of the band were: John Lennon on guitar, Len Garry

on tea-chest bass, Eric Griffiths on guitar and Colin Hanton ondrums.The group travelled to the venue by bus and began their set at 9p.m. Paul was to make his debut as the group's lead guitarist andbegan by singing 'Long Tall Sally'. However, when he began toperform the Arthur Smith number 'Guitar Boogie', it proved somethingof a disaster and he never played lead guitar with them after that.This was probably due to the fact that Paul was playing his guitarupside down and backwards, as he still didn't know how to string aguitar for a left-handed person.Years later, he was to comment, 'I went into the Quarry Men as thelead guitarist, really, because I wasn't bad on guitar. When Iwasn't on stage I was even better, but when I got on stage, my

fingers all went stiff. I had a big solo, on the song 'GuitarBoogie', and when it came to my bit... I blew it! I just blew it! Icouldn't play at all and I got terribly embarrassed. My fingersfound themselves underneath the strings instead of on top of them.So I vowed that first night that that was the end of my career asthe lead guitarist. I goofed on that one terribly and so, from thenon, I was on rhythm guitar.'John was to comment, 'He really cocked up on this lone song. It wasArthur Smith's 'Guitar Boogie', a tune we all especially liked. Whenit came time for the big solo Paul lost his bottle and was allthumbs. The rest of the evening actually went down pretty smooth. We


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all had a good laugh about it afterwards; everyone, that is, exceptPaul.'Promoter McBain wrote his opinion on the group's visiting card:'Good &c Bad.'However, that particular night proved to be an extremely importantone in the life of John and Paul and sparked off what was to becomeone of the greatest song writing teams of all time.As if to atone for the mess he'd made as lead guitarist he decided

to impress John by playing him an original song he'd writtenhimself, 'I Lost My Little Girl'. John then responded by playing afew of the numbers he'd written and asked for Paul's opinion. It wasthe beginning of their songwriting partnership.New Moon Over JamaicaA number Paul co-wrote with country music artists Johnny Cash andTony T Hall. Paul also sang a duet with Cash on the track when itwas featured on the Johnny Cash album Water From The Wells Of Home,issued in America on Monday 10 October 1988 by Mercury Records. Thealbum was issued in Britain on Monday 14 November 1988.New Statesman And SocietyA British political journal, with left-wing leanings. In the 27January 1995 issue, Paul made his debut as a published poet with

five poems:'Chasing The Cherry', 'Mist The Mind', 'The Blue Shines Through','Trouble Is' and 'Velvet Wine'.The accompanying text read: 'Paul McCartney is one of the greatsongwriters, never afraid to experiment with words or music. In1994, he took a sabbatical from touring and has been writing newsongs and a large-scale orchestral piece as well as mounting anexhibition of paintings for Germany.Paul was also to cause some controversy in a New Statesman interviewin September 1997 in which he supported decriminalisation formarijuana and knocked the currently popular group Oasis. Giving hisverdict on the Manchester band, Paul said, 'They're derivative andthey think too much of themselves. I hope for their sakes they're

right. But really they mean nothing to me. They're not my problem.Oasis's future is their problem. I sometimes hear their songs andthink, "That's OK", but I hope they don't make too much of it andstart to believe their own legend because that can cause problems asothers discovered. I wish them luck. I don't want to see them asrivals.'New Theatre, OxfordVenue where Wings appeared on Saturday 12 May 1973. Prior to theperformance, Paul held a press conference attended by fortyjournalists, who were invited by Paul to bring along their wives orgirlfriends. During the conference there was a reference to thenumber 'Six O' Clock' which Paul had recently written for Ringo andPaul said he'd write a song for any friend - and would write a

number for Rod Stewart if he were asked. As a result Rod rang Pauland asked for a number and Paul wrote 'Mine For Me' for him, whichStewart released the following year. Following the show Paul wasinterviewed for The David Symonds Show.New World Collection, TheA special four-CD box set, which was released to tie in with Paul'sMarch 1993 tours of Australasia, which included Wings Greatest, BandOn The Run, Tripping The Live Fantastic: Highlights and Unplugged.New York Philharmonic Orchestra, ThePaul hired this orchestra to perform on three tracks of the Ramalbum, which he recorded in New York in 1971, his first recording


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stint outside Britain. He personally conducted the orchestra on thetracks 'Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey', 'Long Haired Lady' and 'BackSeat Of My Car'.Newman, RandyAn American singer/songwriter. In August 1967 Paul said that Newmanwas one of the best songwriters he had ever heard and hoped to beable to find time to team up with Newman and produce his first albumfor him. He was pleased when Newman won the Academy Award for Best

Song in 2002, even though it meant that Paul's 'Vanilla Sky' was theloser.NewsfrontAn American television show on which Paul appeared with John Lennonon Wednesday 15 May 1968. This was during their special trip toAmerica to promote Apple. In addition to discussing their newproject they also touched on a number of political subjects. Theinterview was repeated a week later on Wednesday 22 May.Newsroom At SixA news programme transmitted in London and the South East of Englandon BBC 1. Paul was interviewed during his 1989 Wembley concerts byformer Ready, Steady, Go! host Cathy McGowan and the interview wasshown in two parts on Wednesday 17 January and Wednesday 31 January

1990.Night Before, TheA song penned by Paul for the Help! album and recorded in a singlesession at Abbey Road Studios on Wednesday 17 February 1963. In thefilm it was used during the Salisbury Plain sequence. It was alsoincluded on the Rock And Roll Music album. John Lennon playedelectric piano for the first time on the track.Night OutA number recorded by Wings in 1972. It was a track considered forthe proposed Cold Cuts project, which was never issued.Night OwlA track featured on Carly Simon's No Secrets, released in 1972. Thenumber was penned by her husband James Taylor, a former Apple artist

and both Paul and Linda provided backing vocals, together with DorisTroy and Bonnie Bramlett. Paul and Linda provided their vocalsfollowing a recording session at AIR Studios for 'Live And Let Die'.

Nineteenth City School Scouts, TheA Boy Scout troop which Paul and his brother Mike joined soon afterthey entered their teens. Their first camping trip with the scoutstook them to North Wales. Their second, in July 1957, took them toHathersons in Derbyshire. There was an accident during the trip inwhich Mike broke his arm.No More Lonely Nights (single)The theme song to Paul's film Give My Regards To Broad Street, whichwas issued in Britain on Monday 24 September 1984 on Parlophone

R6080 and entered the charts on 6 October where it was to reach theNo. 2 position, with a chart life of thirteen weeks.After its release it was discovered that around 100,000 copies ofthe single said 'Lonley' on the label. Paul insisted that all copiesbe returned to the pressing plant so that the spelling could becorrected. Obviously, copies of the single that slipped away withthe misspelling have become collectors' items.The song was written specially for the film, and was effectively thetheme tune, being played throughout the movie.This was known as the 'ballad' version, as the song is played in twotempos.


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Paul commented: 'Twentieth Century Fox asked for an upbeat play-outas people leave the cinema, so I was happy to arrange it in anuptempo version as the play-out: that's more of a dance version.'Two pressings of this double A-side were issued which featured bothversions of the number. There was the normal 7" single on ParlophoneR6080 and a special 12" pressing on Parlophone 12R 6080. Then on 8October the 12" pressing was issued as a picture disc in a speciallimited edition on Parlophone 12RP 6080. Writer Mark Lewisohn in a

special article in the January 1985 issue of Beatles Monthlyentitled 'It's All Too Much', bemoaned the fact that there were somany versions of this particular song. He pointed out that it wouldcost the collector, and in particular the completist, a smallfortune to catch up with all the different editions of the samenumber. Mark reckoned that it would cost a collector 33.34 to

buythe different British versions of the single, which included the 7"ballad version; a 7" special dance mix of the ballad version; a 12"extended version, over eight minutes long; the 12" picture disc; anda 12" extended ballad version, with 'Silly Love Songs' and twoversions of 'No More Lonely Nights'. This was in addition to theversions on the album, cassette and compact disc.

When the single was issued in America on Columbia 38-04581 on Friday5 October 1984 it had a different flipside - the Arthur Baker'Special Dance Mix'. It reached No. 6 in the charts. It was alsoissued in Germany on Parlophone 1C600-2002497.'No More Lonely Nights' was also included on the compilation NowThat's What I Call Music 1984 on CDNOW 84.The record received an American award from ASCAP for being the mostperformed song in America between Monday 1 October 1984 and Monday30 September 1985. At a celebration dinner in Los Angeles onWednesday 28 May 1986 songwriter Hal Davis accepted the award onPaul's behalf.No Other BabyA track from the Run Devil Run album lasting 4 minutes and 17

seconds. Penned by Bishop/Watson, it was recorded at Abbey RoadStudios on Friday 5 March 1999. It featured Paul on lead vocal, bass

guitar and electric guitar, Dave Gilmour on electric guitar andbacking vocal, Mick Green on electric guitar, Peter Wingfield onHammond organ ands Ian Paice on drums.Paul had come across the song in the late 1950s but couldn'tremember who had written it or recorded it and he never bought acopy of the record, but he remembered the words. When he came torecord it, none of his fellow musicians knew of it either. He waslater to discover that it had been recorded by an English skifflegroup, the Vipers, and their version had been produced by GeorgeMartin.

No Other BabyA single by Paul McCartney issued in Britain on Parlophone R6527 on24 October 1999 with 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man' on the flip.No ValuesA track from Give My Regards To Broad Street. The song came to Paulin a dream. He'd been on holiday and was just waking up and he foundhe was still dreaming and was watching the Rolling Stones perform anumber called 'No Values'. He remembered the chorus quite clearlywhen he woke up. He was sure that his own mind had created it in thedream. To make sure he checked that the Stones hadn't done a song ofthat title and when he found they hadn't, wrote the number and


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included it in the film and album.No WordsA collaboration between Paul and Denny Laine. Denny had started offwriting the song and Paul helped him to complete it. They sharedwriting credits when it appeared on the Wings 1973 album Band On TheRun and performed the number during their British tour in 1979.Paul, Linda and Denny provided vocal harmony.Nobel Peace Prize Concert

On 11 December 2001 Paul appeared at the Nobel Peace Prize 100thAnniversary concert at the Spektrum Arena in Oslo, Norway, before anaudience of 6,000. Actors Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson hosted theconcert. Norway's Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Maritand Princess Martha were also in attendance.Rusty Anderson backed Paul on guitar and Blair Cunningham was ondrums. Paul performed 'Your Loving Flame', playing piano, and'Freedom' on acoustic guitar. He said, 'The first one I wrote for myfiancee Heather, and the second one I wrote for the American peopleafter 11 September, but tonight I'd like to dedicate them both to myfriend George.' He finished his spot playing 'Let It Be' on pianoand was joined on stage by some of the other artists who'd beenappearing that night, including Natalie Imbruglia, rapper Wyclef

Jean and Anastacia.Prior to the concert, Paul commented, 'I have always felt that thestrength of peace and love can give the world hope upon which tobuild our future. Peace has long been the theme of many of my songs.Although I believe that the world could not simply ignore the eventsof 11 September, I remain a pacifist and am happy to play forpeace.'The concert was televised on the cable/satellite channel Trio on 16December 2001 and in America on USA Network on 21 December. Triorepeated the broadcast on 26 and 27 January 2002.Nobody I KnowA composition by Paul, which he wrote for Peter & Gordon as afollow-up to 'World Without Love'. They recorded it at Abbey Road

Studios in April 1964.It was produced by Norman Newall and issued in the UK on 29 May 1964on Columbia DB 7292 and in the US on June 15 1964 on Capitol 5211,with 'You Don't Have To Tell Me' on the flip.It was also the title track on Peter &c Gordon's EP Nobody I Know,released in the UK on Columbia 8348 on 24 July 1968.NortonA number penned by Paul and Mike McCartney and produced by Paul forthe McGear album. It was included as a track on The Force, amailorder double album, available only in America and released onFriday 14 February 1975 on Warner Brothers PRO 596. It was alsoissued as the flipside of the 'Dance The Do' single by MikeMcCartney, also produced by Paul, which was issued in Britain on

Friday 4 July 1975 on Warner Brothers 16573.Note You Never Wrote, TheThis was a track from Wings At The Speed Of Sound and the first songrecorded for the album in September 1975. Although Paul wrote thenumber, it was sung by Denny Laine.Nottingham UniversityThe venue for Wings' first ever gig which took place at lunchtime onWednesday 9 February 1972 and was hurriedly arranged the previousday. Notices announcing: 'Tonight! Guest group: Paul McCartney andWings! Admission 50p' drew an audience of 700 students. It wasPaul's first live gig in nearly six years and the group's share of


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the take was 30. Paul was to recall, 'It was a spur of themoment

thing. One of the group had said he had played at NottinghamUniversity and liked it so that's where we ended up. It was fiftypence at the door, and a guy sat at the table taking money. The kidsdanced and we all had a good time. The Students' Union took theirsplit and gave us the rest. I'd never seen money tor at least tenyears. The Beatles never handled money ... we walked Around

Nottingham with thirty pounds in coppers in our pockets.'In an interview in Melody Maker, Paul was to comment, 'It was verygood for us. We will go on touring the country for a while, playingmore of these concerts when we feel like it.'Trevor, one of Wings' road managers, was to comment: 'We went intoNottingham University students' union at about five o' clock andfixed it up for lunchtime the next day. Nottingham was the bestbecause they were so enthusiastic. No hassles. No one quite expectedor believed it.'Commenting on the brief series of university gigs, Linda told MelodyMaker: 'Eric Clapton once said that he would like to play from theback of a caravan, but he never got around to doing it. Well - wehave! We've no manager or agents - just we five and the roadies.

We're just a gang of musicians touring around.'NovaThe composition by Paul that he wrote for Garland For Linda. Thereviewer in Classic FM magazine commented that 'Nova': 'certainlyspeaks directly to the listener. The repeated question, "Are youthere?" from the sopranos and altos rises in intervals. The appealto the listener is both potent and passionate.'Paul was also interviewed in the magazine and commenting on hisgrief at the death of Linda, said, 'I thought I might be dead at theend of the year, it would just be so unbearable. I half-prepared forthat to happen. The nearest I did get to that was with grief andcrying. But I thought, no, that's a slippery path. So I tried tocounteract that by just going from day to day.'

Discussing 'Nova', he said, 'I thought, "I'll write something, andif it's no good, I'll just say sorry." So I got on my computer andput up the choral settings that I use and just thought, "Well, nowdo I want to start it?" And just thought it all through.'Now Hear This Song Of MineOne of the numbers written and recorded by Linda and Paul in 1971 atthe time of the Ram sessions. It was not included on the album andwas never released as a single, although a thousand copies werepressed and circulated within the music industry to aid thepromotion of Ram.Now It's Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper, EltonA single by Clive Baldwin issued in America in 1975 on Mercury73680. I Levine and L Russell Brown penned it and the flipside was

'Disco Rag'.Now That's What I Call Music 11Now That's What I Call Music is a series of British chartcompilation double albums. The 11th release in the series issued byEMI/Virgin on NOW 2 on 26 March 1984 included the track 'Pipes OfPeace'.Nurk Twins, ThePaul and his brother Mike first thought up this name when they werekids and used it when they entertained friends or family with aduet. In 1960 John and Paul made an appearance as a duo at the Foxand Hounds pub in Caversham, Berkshire in April 1960 and called


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themselves the similarly sounding Nerk Twins.Nutwood SceneA number that Paul had originally penned for a projected animatedmovie of Rupert The Bear. The 2-minute 10-second song has surfacedon several bootlegs and was included in the Oobu Joobu radio series.Nutwood was the name of the area where Rupert the Bear and hisfriends lived.

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