PAUL McCARTNEY FLOWERS IN THE DIRT DELUXE EDITION
An extra disc with this reissue features the lost demos recorded by the Beatle and Costello Between 1987 and 1991, I wrote 15 songs with Paul McCartney, nine of which were released over five of our solo albums. We had started out to co-produce our co-written songs for Paul’s album Flowers In The Dirt but disagreed about the scope of the recording. I wanted Paul to have everything stripped to the boards, while I was secretly plotting my own album, Spike, on the scale of a Cecil B DeMille epic. Last year, a lavish reissue saw the official release of our two-man demos, recorded in the joyful moments after each composition was completed, in a room above Paul’s Hog Hill Studios. We got to harmonise and compete over the best lines in “You Want Her Too”, “So Like Candy” and the unreleased “Tommy’s Coming Home Again”. For me the highlight was the demo of “The Lovers That Never Were”, one of the greatest vocal performances of Paul’s solo career.