Снова в СССР

Studio album by Paul McCartney

Released

31 October 1988

Recorded

20–21 July 1987

Studio

Hog Hill, Sussex

Genre

Rock and roll

Length

47:54

Paul McCartney chronology

All the Best!
(1987)

Снова в СССР
(1988)

Flowers in the Dirt
(1989)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Essential Rock Discography	4/10
MusicHound
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

CHOBA B CCCP (Russian: «Снова в СССР», Snova v SSSR, literally Back in the USSR; also known as The Russian Album) is the seventh solo studio album by Paul McCartney under his own name, originally released in 1988 exclusively in the Soviet Union. The album consists entirely of covers, mainly of rock and roll oldies (similar to John Lennon's 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll). With the addition of an extra track, it was released internationally in 1991.

Following the tepid reaction to his 1986 studio album Press to Play, McCartney spent much of the first half of 1987 plotting his next album. In March he recorded an album's worth of songs with producer Phil Ramone but those sessions only produced the single "Once Upon a Long Ago" backed with "Back on My Feet," released only in the United Kingdom that November.

Following a series of jam sessions with various British musicians where they played some of his favourite songs from the 1950s, McCartney decided to record the songs live in the studio. Over the course of two days in July 1987, McCartney recorded twenty songs.

Other tracks recorded during the sessions but not included on the Melodiya album were "I'm in Love Again" and "I Wanna Cry" (an original song) released on the B-side of McCartney's "This One" maxi-single in 1989 and "It's Now or Never" on the New Musical Express album The Last Temptation of Elvis in 1990. A version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" was also recorded but remains unreleased.

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