Greetings fellow Paul bearers and welcome to the first of two instalments that explore Paul McCartney's 1986 album, 'Press to Play'. This is an album that, apparently, is the worst effort that Macca has ever put to print. Well, let's put that to the test shall we?

In this episode we cover... 

• McCartney's Decline in Popularity 
• Linda's Drug Bust
• Live Aid
• Eric Stewart vs Hugh Padgham, aka "The Producers".
• The recording of the album.
• The album artwork.
• The critical reception.
• ....and I will not be covering Give My Regards to Broadstreet, even though it did technically happen during this period. That is all coming in a future episode!

This has been another one of those episodes that has taken far too long to come out, but I hope the wait was worth it! Please enjoy....

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