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It was 33 years ago tonight (November 23rd, 1989) that after a 13-year-stretch, Paul McCartney returned to the North American concert stage for the first of a five-night stand at the L.A. Forum. McCartney's band featured wife Linda McCartney on keyboards, Average White Band co-founder Hamish Stuart on guitar and bass, Former Pretenders lead guitarist Robbie McIntosh, keyboardist Paul "Wix" Wickens, and drummer Chris Whitten. McCartney's last North American trek had been the blockbuster 1976 Wings Over America tour, and Wings' 1979/1980 tour was canceled after only 20 UK shows following his infamous January 1980 pot bust in Tokyo. Following the Japan debacle and John Lennon's murder the following December, McCartney continued to record and wrote and starred in the big budget, big screen flop Give My Regards To Broad Street, which was universally panned. By the time of the 1989 tour, McCartney had released four studio albums Pipes Of Peace (1983, #15); Giv
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Paul McCartney has just uploaded a new 10-song Spotify playlist on his official PaulMcCartney.com site. Every month "Macca" posts a new tracklisting with a specific theme and to kick-off the New Year, he's has selected alternate versions of hits, collaborations, and deep album cuts. Among the tracks picked for this month's playlist include Wings' final chart-topper, "Coming Up (Live In Glasgow)" from 1980, his home demo for 1997's Flaming Pie single "Young Boy," 1980 one-man-band demos of his Tug Of War and Pipes of Peace evergreens "Wanderlust" and "Sweetest Little Show," a 1988 studio take of "My Brave Face" with co-writer Elvis Costello, along with his recent revamped mix of his McCartney III lead track, "Find My Way" with Beck. A message to fans on the site reads in part: With every New Year comes wellness goals, resolutions and a time to reflect on the past with a fresh new perspective. So fo