Press
	Produced by Paul McCartney and Hugh Padgham
	Released on July 14, 1986
	UK CHART POSITION #25 . . . US CHART POSITION #21 (charted Aug. 2, 1986 for 11 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
B-5597 w. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

D ifferent versions of the B side? Press on, you say... It turns out that lovely “Press” is just part of the story. Sure it’s a silly love song, but what’s wrong with that? In the US, “Press” was issued as a three-and-a-half minute video edit version. In the UK, they issued it in two versions: the video edit and 4:20 version. (The album version, for anyone keeping score at home, runs about 4:40.) And then there’s the dub mix of “Press” that appears on the 12-inch singles. All of which might be reckoned normal in a day in the life of a single. I naturally assumed that “It’s Not True” would be the same version that was added to the original CD release of Press To Play. But that’s not true. It’s a less mechanical mix, one minute shorter, that sounds markedly different from the CD version. (To its credit, it’s not credited as coming from “Press To Play.”) I’d still like a warmer version of “It’s Not True,” maybe even unplugged, but that two of them are swimming in the sea makes for a more interesting ocean.

TRACK LISTING

1. PRESS (VIDEO EDIT)    (Paul McCartney)    3:35
2. IT'S NOT TRUE    (Paul McCartney)    4:27
   
   UK 7-inch single (alternate version)
   
1. PRESS    4:20
2. IT'S NOT TRUE
   
   UK 10-inch picture disc
   
1. PRESS (VIDEO EDIT)
2. IT'S NOT TRUE
3. PRESS    4:20
   
   12-inch single
   
1. PRESS (VIDEO EDIT)
2. IT'S NOT TRUE
3. HANGLIDE
4. PRESS (DUB MIX)

CREDITS

Bert Bevans, Steve Forward -- mix (1)
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