Back To The Egg was the final album to feature Paul McCartney and his group Wings. Originally released in 1979, this album showcased the band at its absolute peak, with its MOR (middle-of-the-road) sound so dominant in many of the album's tracks. A major highlight of the album is a guest performance by an all-star "Rockestra", featuring The Who's Pete Townshend, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Rolling StoneRon Wood, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, and one of the last performances of John Bonham (also from Zeppelin).
Two songs recorded during sessions for "Egg", the disco-ish "Goodnight Tonight", and "Daytime Nighttime Suffering", were originally released as one stand-alone single. While both were left out of the original vinyl version, the B-sided "Suffering" was restored as a bonus track for the CD version ("Goodnight" ended up on the CD version of Paul's solo album McCartney II), as well as two Christmas songs that were themselves originally released as part of one stand-alone single, "Wonderful Christmastime" and "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae".
Back To The Egg is the final studio album by Wings and was released in 1979.
Although many McCartney fans are devotees of Back to the Egg, it is still generally considered one of his least popular albums.
In 1993, Back to the Egg was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" ("Goodnight Tonight"'s B-Side) and Paul McCartney's solo 1979 Christmas single "Wonderful Christmastime" b/w "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae" as bonus tracks.
Back in the U.S. (subtitled Live 2002) is a live album by Paul McCartney comprised of highlights from his Spring 2002 Driving USA Tour in the United States in support of McCartney's 2001 release Driving Rain.
And it was with the release of those particular songs on Back in the U.S. that sparked one of McCartney's biggest controversies in ages.
Back in the U.S. was an exclusive North American release (an international edition with a slight tracklisting change, entitled Back in the World, being planned for a spring 2003 release).
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