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McCartney wrote "Ebony and Ivory" at his farm in Scotland. [3] The song uses the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano as a metaphor for integration and racial harmony. The title was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say, "Black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!"
Tug of War is the third solo studio album by the English musician Paul McCartney, released on 26 April 1982.It is his 11th album overall following the break up of the Beatles in 1970, his first album released after the dissolution of his band Wings the previous year, and his first album following the murder of his former songwriting partner John Lennon. [1]
"Take It Away" is a single by the English musician Paul McCartney from his third solo studio album Tug of War (1982). The single spent sixteen weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #10 and spending five consecutive weeks at that position.
"Ebony and Ivory" Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder: 5 "Centerfold" The J. Geils Band: 6 "Don't You Want Me" The Human League: 7 "Jack & Diane" John Cougar: 8 "Hurts So Good" John Cougar: 9 "Abracadabra" Steve Miller Band: 10 "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" Chicago: 11 "Tainted Love" Soft Cell: 12 "Chariots of Fire" Vangelis: 13 "Harden My Heart ...
Margaret Patrick (1913–1994) was "Ebony" in Ebony and Ivory, the name given to a pair of great-grandmothers in New Jersey, one white and one black, who played classical piano together. Each had a stroke in 1982 and became partially disabled.
McCartney's first wife Linda McCartney (pictured in 1976) recorded the album Ram with her husband and recorded music with Wings as well. Stevie Wonder (pictured in 1973) recorded "Ebony and Ivory" and "What's That You're Doing" with McCartney in 1982.
Journalist Whitney Pastorek compared the song to McCartney's 1982 duet with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory". She asserted that "Say Say Say" was a better song, and had a better "though slightly more nonsensical" music video, adding that the song had no "heavy-handed social content". [28]
[1] [5] A local reporter dubbed them Ebony and Ivory and the name stuck. [3] They began to play in other senior citizen facilities, in veterans' homes and hospitals. [3] [4] After being picked up by The New York Times, which put the story of "Ebony and Ivory" on its wire service, articles about them appeared in newspapers around the United States.