Music Videos
Most of the songs for the album had a music video shot for them (an uncommon thing for an artist to do in the pre-MTV era).
These included:
- "Getting Closer"
- "Spin It On"
- "Again and Again and Again"
- "Old Siam Sir"
- "Arrow Through Me"
- "Winter Rose/Love Awake"
- "Baby's Request"
These videos plus the promo for "Goodnight Tonight" were compiled for a television special, which aired on US television in 1979—and in June 1981 on BBC1 - two years after the album was released.
Also shot around the time of recording the album, the sessions for "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad to See You Here" were filmed using several Panavision cameras. However this footage didn't see the light of day until the DVD release of Wingspan. In 2007 more outtakes were used for the menu screen on The McCartney Years DVD.
Read more about this topic: Back To The Egg
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Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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