First released: 1987
From a great title comes a so-so compilation of McCartney’s greatest, mainly because McCartney had a different compilation available in the US than in the rest of the world prompting people like myself to seek out the import version which contained a previously unreleased song called "Once Upon a Long Ago", which STILL hasn’t been officially released in the US to this day (2008). The compilation also suffers from too many repeats from "Wings Greatest", but not all of those tracks are included like "Hi Hi Hi", thus necessitating the need to have that compilation if one wants everything on CD. Fortunately, the "Wingsspan" collection straightened out the early years of McCartney’s solo career, but a good career-spanning compilation still needs to be in order.
Tracks unique to the US version include "Junior’s Farm", "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", "Coming Up (Live in Glascow)", "Goodnight Tonight", and "With a Little Luck (edit)".
Tracks unique to the UK version include "Coming Up (studio version)", "Pipes of Peace (edit)", "Once Upon a Long Ago", "We All Stand Together", and "Mull of Kintyre".
The studio version of "Maybe I’m Amazed" was unique to the vinyl edition. Having all 20 tracks together on one compilation would have been more satisfactory.
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Yeah there's so much brilliant Macca still waiting to be collected.
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