Paul McCartney -Take It Away (Early Take)

Tug Of War - Recording Sessions
28th June 1980 - Finston Manor, Tenterton, Kent. - Rehearsals which included "Ballroom Dancing" and the unreleased song, "Call Of Nature"
16th July 1980 - Super Bear studios, Paris, France - During Ringo's sessions for "Stop And Smell The Roses", an 8 minute Linda song, "Love's Full Glory" is recorded ... which remained unreleased until the 1998 album "Wide Prairie", but then at only 3' 46" long. 2nd-25th October 1980 - Finston Manor, Tenterton, Kent. - The final Wings sessions, produce many initial demo's for the album "Tug Of War", which include :
"Take It Away", "Ballroom Dancing", "The Pound Is Sinking", "Wanderlust", "Dress Me Up As A Robber", and "Ebony And Ivory".
AND the next album, "Pipes Of Peace" which include :
"Keep Under Cover", "Average Person", and "Sweetest Little Show".
Also recorded are, "Rainclouds" (B-side of the single "Ebony And Ivory"), "Old Man Lovin", "Sure To Fall", "Movie Magg", "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", "Summertime", "Good Rockin' Tonight - Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Cut Across Shorty", "Stealin' Back To My Same Old Used To Be", "Singing The Blues", "Johnny B. Goode", "Twenty Flight Rock", and "Cage".
plus a number of unreleased tracks which are :
"Stop, You Don't Know Where She Came From", "Take Her Back, Jack", "The Unbelievable Experience", "Here's The Chord, Roy (sic)", "Seems Like Old Times" and a further version of "Boil Crisis" first started in 1977.
27th October - 3rd November 1980 - AIR Studios, London - The Rupert The Bear tracks are recorded.
9th December 1980 - AIR Studios, London - The Day after John's murder, Paul, and Denny with George Martin record a small piece of "Rainclouds" before being unable to continue.
2nd February - 3rd March 1981 - Air Studios, Montserrat - "Somebody Who Cares", "The Pound Is Sinking", "Hey Hey" and "Rainclouds". During these sessions on 16th/17th February, Ringo joins Paul to record "Take It Away", on 21st February Carl Perkins joins Paul for "Get It", and 26th February Stevie Wonder joins Paul to record "What's That You're Doing" and finally, "Ebony And Ivory" in the final days on Montserrat.
Summer 1981 - Paul's Scottish Studios - "Dress Me Up As A Robber", "Tug Of War", "Ballroom Dancing", "Be What You See", "Wanderlust", "Here Today", "I'll Give You A Ring", "The Man", "Average Person", "Keep Under Cover", "Sweetest Little Show", "Ode To A Koala Bear" and with Michael Jackson, "Say Say Say".
Plus the unreleased track "Blackpool" planned to be the B-side of "The Man".
14th-16th April 1982 - Westlake Studios, L.A. - "The Girl Is Mine" with Michael Jackson.

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[diezungen]

Never heard this take....nice of you to post it.

[piggyjo]

COOL! Thanks Alexis

[jake1052003]

@observer9670 yeah, thats too bad, because some of the demos on the Anthology are priceless. Pauls all sounded half or 3/4 produced and very much like the released track. Not so interesting as John & George's demo's.

[observer9670]

Paul doesn't make demos like most others - playing a piano or acoustic guitar and singing on a cassette tape (like John Lennon did). He does a full 4-track studio treatment, overdubbing several instruments and his own voice multi-tracked. That's why his demos are almost as good as the released versions.

[undress4u]

beautiful vocal . 

[Dios67]

@steveevh1 From what I read he did compose alot on the piano even when he lived with the Ashers. I'm sure you have heard Martha My Dear on the White Album. Great piano playing IMO.

[hirskdubbi]

@airnsmke hmmm i think Pauls piano performance on Maybe im Amazed is pretty fuckin great

[cranie4]

@jigbuilda Probably tape speeded his vocal like the old days...

[airnsmke]

@steveevh1 cool, and yea missed the point, i forgot who was trying to make one

[steveevh1]

@airnsmke I would agree in a sense but I think you are missing the point here. The art of writing a great pop song is to keep it relatively simple. The average person in the street would not understand the complexities of Bach or Rachmananoff. I think that Paul wrote "Long and Winding Road" - "Live and Let Die" and "Hey Jude" on piano as well as too many others to mention. That makes him a great piano player in my book as well as a great composer. I have a music degree by the way, no offence