4 Paul McCartney Flaming Pie

PARLOPHONE 1997, £13.94

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Call it the post-Anthology effect, but a revived Britpop fascination with the Fabs – after a 1980s where they often seemed like a relic from a distant age – acted as a jump-start to McCartney’s motor. The quality control was back, following 1993’s brittle and patchy Off The Ground, and Flaming Pie fittingly put him back in touch with late-era Beatles, in the aching Somedays, the quietly empathic Little Willow and the bright-eyed Calico Skies. Steve Miller turned up on loose rocker Used To Be Bad, but the more atmospheric moments, such as the penultimate Beautiful Night, marked Flaming Pie out as top-drawer Macca.