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Wings break-up. Paul works on next album with former Beatles producer George Martin. Release of 'Rockshow' film from Wings' 1976 US tour.
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Release of the acclaimed album 'Tug Of War', which includes hit singles Ebony And Ivory', on which Paul duets with Stevie Wonder, 'Take It Away' and 'Tug Of War'. Paul also enjoys a smash hit with 'The Girl Is Mine' on which he duets with Michael Jackson. (The track launches Jackson's new album 'Thriller'.) Paul wins three BPI awards, including Best British Male Artist and Outstanding British Contribution To Music, and a special Sony award.
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Release of new album 'Pipes Of Peace', a successor to 'Tug Of War'. First single 'Say Say Say' (another duet with Michael Jackson) is a worldwide hit, and follow-up 'Pipes Of Peace' gives Paul yet another Christmas number one in the UK while the song's promo video is a winner at the British Rock And Pop Awards. Year long, Paul is also busy shooting his forthcoming feature-film and writing new songs for the soundtrack.
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'Give My Regards To Broad Street' is released as a major motion picture, starring Paul and Linda and Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach, with cameo appearances by Tracey Ullman and Sir Ralph Richardson. 'No More Lonely Nights', from the soundtrack album, is a worldwide smash single; in Britain it's on the charts simultaneous with 'We All Stand Together', the theme song to a short animated film, accompanying 'Broad Street', about the Rupert Bear character much-loved in Britain. The film brings to fruition Paul's long-felt wish to transfer Rupert to the big screen.
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Paul performs 'Let It Be' at Wembley Stadium, north of London, marking a sensational finale to Bob Geldof's 'Live Aid' concert, seen live on TV around the world by 1.5 billion people. |
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New album 'Press To Play' is celebrated with Paul's return to the concert stage for a special show in aid of the Prince's Trust, in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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Greatest hits compilation album 'All The Best!' goes platinum within three days of release. Single 'Once Upon A Long Ago' is released in many countries (not the US) giving Paul yet another top ten hit. Paul begins an occasional writing partnership with Elvis Costello that, to 1997, will yield 12 released songs.
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Paul becomes the first artist from the West to release an album exclusively in the Soviet Union, 'CHOBA B CCCP' ('Back In The USSR'). Paul is awarded an honorary doctorate by a British university and a Silver Clef award by the charity Music Therapy, for which he narrates and appears in a BBC TV documentary.
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Paul takes part in a live phone-in with his Russian fans on the BBC World Service. New album 'Flowers In The Dirt', with hit singles 'My Brave Face', 'This One' and 'Put It There', heralds Paul's first concert tour since 1979. With a new band comprising Linda and also Paul 'Wix' Wickens on keyboards, guitarists Hamish Stuart and Robbie McIntosh and drummer Chris Whitten, a major world trek kicks off in Norway on 26 September.
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Paul's world tour ends in Chicago on 29 July, having visited 13 countries for a total of 102 concerts given to three million fans, including a world-record-breaking 184,000 at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Souvenir album 'Tripping The Live Fantastic' is released at year-end, accompanied by singles 'Birthday', written by Paul for the Beatles' 'White Album' in 1968, and 'All My Trials', a new arrangement of the traditional number. Paul announces plans to launch LIPA, a school for studying the performing arts, to be based in his now derelict and threatened old school, the Liverpool Institute.
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