Pretty Little Head (song)
| "Pretty Little Head" | ||||
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| Single by Paul McCartney | ||||
| from the album Press to Play | ||||
| B-side | "Write Away"; "Angry" was also added to the 12" release | |||
| Released | 7" and 12": October 27, 1986 Cassette: November 17, 1986 |
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| Format | 7", 12", cassette | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | Album: 5:14 7": 3:50 12" & cassette: 6:56 (remix) |
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| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer(s) | Paul McCartney and Eric Stewart | |||
| Producer | Hugh Padgham and Paul McCartney | |||
| Paul McCartney singles chronology | ||||
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"Pretty Little Head" is a 1986 single by Paul McCartney.[1] It was McCartney's thirty-eighth single, and his first which failed to chart, so, in an attempt to boost sales, he released his first ever cassette single.[1] It still failed to reach the top 75.[1]
Reviews of the song, and the album as a whole, were mixed. The song has been described as "wild, hi-tech experimentation",[2] and as "computer-laiden, spacey-sounding, boomey-drumming, while Rolling Stone magazine described it as "dreamily abstract".[3]
[edit] Versions and video
The single was released at a length of 3:50 on the 7" release, and as a 6:56 remix (mixed by John Potoker) on the 12" release on the same day, 27 October 1986, and an extra track, "Angry", was added to the 12".[1] The cassette version was the same as the 12", and was released on 17 November 1986.[1] Both of these lengths are different from the album version, which has a length of 5:14. (See Press to Play).
- 12" single tracks
- "Pretty Little Head"
- "Pretty Little Head" (remix by John Potoker)
- "Angry" (remix by Larry Alexander)
- "Write Away"
A music video, directed by Steve Barron, was recorded for the song,[1] which features a girl running away from home after she witnesses her parents in an argument; she then finds herself in a big city. The girl is actress Gabrielle Anwar. McCartney appears only in a short cameo role, which he filmed in London on 18 October 1986.[1] The beginning of the video contains an excerpt from "She's Leaving Home" a Beatles song written and performed in 1967, for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
"Write Away", the single's B-side, is included only on the CD release of the album, resulting in the back of the single listing the A-side as "From the album" and the B-side as "From the compact disc".[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Pretty Little Head". JPGR. 2000. http://www.jpgr.co.uk/r6145.html. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
- ^ "WARR - Paul McCartney". Wilson and Alroy's Record Reviews. http://www.warr.org/mccartney.html#PTP. Retrieved 2009-01-11.
- ^ Decurtis, Anthony (23 October 1986). "Paul McCartney: Press To Play: Music Reviews: Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone (Rolling Stone). http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/paulmccartney/albums/album/212834/review/5945246/press_to_play.
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