Paul McCartney - COMING UP!

 IT's FRIDAY LETS HAVE ANOTHER

SONG OF THE DAY and continuing the singles bought when they came out . . . .. as I have said before my wife and I were avid fan club members at this time , . . . . . . . . . . . . its COMING UP!

The music video was directed by Keith McMillan and features McCartney playing ten roles (himself, two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer, a keyboard player, and four saxophone players) and Linda McCartney playing two backup singers (one female and one male). The “band” identified as “The Plastic Macs” on the drum kit (a homage to Lennon’s conceptual Plastic Ono Band), features Paul and Linda’s imitations of various rock musician stereotypes, as well as a few identifiable musicians. In his audio commentary on the 2007 video collection The McCartney Years,  Paul identified characters that were impersonations of specific artists: Hank Marvin (guitarist from the Shadows), Ron Mael of Sparks (keyboards), a ’Beatlemania-era’ version of himself (bass), and a drummer inspired by John Bonham from Led Zeppelin.  Other identifiable impersonations appear to be Frank Zappa and Buddy Holly, which McCartney said were “comic relief” thrown in to fill out the stage.

The video, which was created a year before the premiere of MTV, made its debut on Saturday Night Live in the US and The Kenny Everett Video Show in the UK.

again thanks to Retro Pop Cult! 

Oh I loved this and bought the album and the single and had it on a juke box sale bin item single (B-side? ED) where it is featured as a live track and the crowd shouting along with Paul for "Kenny Dalglish" [football reference from me - I know!? - Dalglish, a Scot, was the Liverpool player/manager for quite a while and 'King Kenny' considered the saviour of the club at that time*] . . . . I think either way this is a truly inspiring positive song for me and one that I love . . . . . .it's fun, it's a love song, it's pure pop, it's FUNNY! . . . . . . whatever,  it's coming up!

On this day in music history: May 16, 1980 - “McCartney II”, the second solo album by Paul McCartney is released. Produced by Paul McCartney, it is recorded at Spirit of Ranachan Studios in Campbelltown, Scotland and EMI Replica Studio in London from July - August 1979. McCartney begins recording his second solo album during the Summer of 1979 while Wings is in limbo (officially disbanding in 1981), at High Park, his farmhouse in rural Scotland. Much like his first solo effort “McCartney” in 1970, he uses the same method of recording, by plugging microphones directly into a Studer sixteen track tape machine. The sessions are prolific, yielding twenty new songs, with the released LP containing only eleven tracks, the rest surface as non-album B-sides or remain unreleased. Though it receives mixed reviews upon its release for its experimental, somewhat less polished sound, it is an immediate hit, spinning off three singles including “Coming Up” (#1 US Pop, #2 UK) and “Waterfalls” (#9 UK). Some copies of the US LP come packaged with a bonus 7" disc featuring the live version of “Coming Up” (recorded in December of 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland) which becomes a huge hit on US radio stations, overtaking the original studio version in airplay. In 2011, the album is remastered and reissued in three different editions including a single CD of the original album, a two CD set with eight bonus tracks, and a three CD + DVD box set edition containing unreleased material from the sessions, including unedited versions of four songs that appeared on the original release (plus additional tracks from the same sessions). In December of 2017, the album is remastered and reissued on vinyl, on standard black and limited edition clear vinyl. “McCartney II” hits number one on the UK album chart, peaking at number three on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

*from Wiki on Kenny Dalglish - His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six English league championships, the FA Cup, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one UEFA Super Cup. For these achievements and his style of play he was given the name King Kenny by Liverpool supporters. Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, FA Cup and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.