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| Flowers in the Dirt | ||||
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| Studio album by Paul McCartney | ||||
| Released | 5 June 1989 | |||
| Recorded | 1 October 1984 - 12 January 1989, Hog Hill Mill, East Sussex Olympic Studios, London AIR Studios, London Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles Soundcastle Studios, Los Angeles Hot Nights Ltd., London |
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 53:42 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | Paul McCartney, Mitchell Froom, Neil Dorfsman, Elvis Costello, Trevor Horn, Steve Lipson, Chris Hughes, Ross Cullum, David Foster (and Phil Ramone on CD reissue tracks) | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Deseret News | (highly favourable) |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| The Essential Rock Discography | 6/10 |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| MusicHound | 3/5 |
| The New York Times | (favourable) |
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Time | (favourable) |
Flowers in the Dirt is the eighth studio solo album by Paul McCartney under his own name. The album was released on 5 June 1989 on Parlophone, as he was embarking on his first world tour since the Wings Over the World tour in 1975–76. It was considered a major return to form, and earned McCartney some of the best reviews he had received in years. The album made number 1 in the United Kingdom and Norway and produced several hit singles (the first being "My Brave Face").
The album was reissued in an expanded form in March 2017, with the original demos recorded by McCartney and Elvis Costello included as part of this release.
After the meagre sales that greeted Press to Play, McCartney realised that he needed to work much harder on his follow-up. Thus, he not only teamed up with several different producers, but also spent the better part of 18 months perfecting Flowers in the Dirt. A highlight of the sessions was McCartney's productive alliance with Elvis Costello, with whom he composed many new songs. In his 2015 autobiography, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, Costello described the track "That Day Is Done" as, "the unhappy sequel to "Veronica"", which they had also co-written. Despite Costello's similarities to John Lennon, the partnership was not to endure. McCartney's then manager, Richard Ogden, confided at the time to Beatles biographer, Mark Lewisohn, that the relationship between Costello and the former Beatle was "not entirely harmonious" and that at points McCartney had gone as far as to rant at him regarding Costello's attitude and approach to the sessions. Costello would appear on the album, even co-singing "You Want Her Too" with McCartney. Another celebrity guest included was his friend David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, who plays the guitar on "We Got Married". On "Put It There", McCartney used an old Buddy Holly trick, the knee-percussion, that McCartney recorded on the same day as the backing track.
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