-11.04.1980

Coming Up

“Coming Up” Single artwork as featured in 'The 7" Singles Box'
-11.04.1980
“Coming Up” Single artwork as featured in 'The 7" Singles Box'
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PAUL McCARTNEY - Coming Up
Release date - 11 April 1980
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Tracklisting

  1. AComing Up
  2. BComing Up (Live at Glasgow)
  3. BBLunch Box / Odd Sox

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'McCartney II' album cover

McCartney II

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'Coming Up' was the lead single from Paul's second self-titled solo album, McCartney II. Inspired by the fact that Paul played every instrument on the song, the video for ‘Coming Up’ famously features him dressed up as various characters from the made-up group The Plastic Macs, a play on John Lennon’s and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band. Directed by Keith McMillan, Paul shot for 25 hours over the space of two days.

We did a rather nice video for it, directed by Keith McMillan, in which I pretended to be all the people who had played the instruments. Which, as it turns out, I had been
Paul

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