McCartney's Eighties Singles Top 10
10. Ebony & Ivory
One of his biggest hits, but to me it got way to much airplay on the radio at the time, causing me not to listen to it for years. Nowadays I have a renewed appreciation, although I think Ebony & Ivory is one of the rare McCartney songs that have begun to sound a bit outdated, especially the synthesizers.
9. Say, Say, Say
By far the best of the three songs on which McCartney and Michael Jackson collaborated, the other two being The Girl Is Mine and The Man. Although it got a lot of bad reviews by music critics, it became one of McCartney’s all time biggest hits. For Michael Jackson Say Say Say was his seventh top ten hit of 1983 in the US, breaking a record held jointly by The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
8. Pretty Little Head
To me, one of the better tracks of the 1986 Press to Play album and, as the rest of the album, a song with a typical Eighties sound, including the use of a lot of bass slapping and electronic drums. At the time, I really liked the accompanying video clip, which starts with the last tones of The Beatles’ She’s Leaving Home.
7. Figure of Eight
After a decade with primarily ballads and rather soft pop songs, the rocking McCartney appears to be back: Figure of Eight is McCartney’s most rocking single from the Eighties. During the 1989/90 World Tour it was the opening song.
6. My Brave Face
The lead single taken from the album Flowers In The Dirt is one of McCartney’s more ‘Beatle-esque’ solo singles. Written with Elvis Costello, it was his last top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 until Paul’s 2014 collaboration with Kanye West on "Only One".
5. Spies Like Us
The title track from the Dan Ackroyd-Chevy Chase comedy of the same name reminds me a bit of the McCartney of his first solo album: it has the same basic ‘one-man-band’-feel to it. Except for the keyboard Paul does play all the instruments by himself, including a screeching guitar solo.
4. No More Lonely Nights
From the movie Give My Regards To Broad Street, which may have been flopped, but with the music was nothing wrong. No More Lonely Nights is a classic McCartney piano ballad with a fabulous contribution by David Gilmour on lead guitar.
3. We All Stand Together
Well, it may be “just a children’s song” but it is an excellent one! It’s not only the beautiful melody, but also all of the creativity with the different voices by Macca that makes the track so loveable. More about the song in the first blog I ever wrote.
2. Coming Up
McCartney’s first single in the Eighties. In the US especially the live version, recorded by Wings in December 1979 and released as B-side, was a big success. Therefor Coming Up became the last hit single by Wings in America, a bit ironic with a title like that.
1. Once Upon A Long Ago
By far my favorite single from this decade. Wonderful tune with an outstanding guitar solo by Paul himself. The song was originally intended as a duet with Queen singer Freddie Mercury, as I wrote before in a blog about the 30th anniversary of the song.
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