Flaming Pie#2020 remaster

An early version of "Beautiful Night" was recorded in 1986.{{Cite web|last=Sinclair|first=Paul|date=17 July 2020|title=Paul McCartney offers free download of the original 'Beautiful Night'|url=https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/paul-mccartney-offers-free-download-of-the-original-beautiful-night/|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Super Deluxe Edition}} "Calico Skies",{{refn|"Calico Skies" was written when McCartney tried to write something similar to the Beatles' "Blackbird".|group=nb}} which McCartney had written when Hurricane Bob hit while McCartney was staying on Long Island in 1991, and "Great Day", which features backing vocals from his wife Linda McCartney, hailed from a 1992 session,{{refn|Also recorded during this session is the song "When Winter Comes", which was eventually released on McCartney III in 2020.{{cite web|title=The McCartney Recording Sessions – 1992|url=http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1992.htm|access-date=5 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025544/http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1992.htm|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}|group=nb}} recorded before the 1993 release of album Off the Ground.

Starting from the mid-1990s for four years, McCartney was involved in The Beatles Anthology, a documentary on the history of the Beatles.{{cite book|last=Clayson |first=Alan |title=Paul McCartney |year=2003 |publisher=Sanctuary |location=London |isbn=978-1-86074-482-2 |page=241}} The documentary was originally titled The Long and Winding Road, named after the Beatles song of the same name. During 1995, as the Anthology albums were starting to be released over a two-year period, EMI did not want McCartney to release a solo album in the meantime. McCartney said that he "was almost insulted at first" before then realising that "it would be silly to go out against yourself in the form of the Beatles. So I fell in with the idea and thought, 'Great, I don't even have to think about an album.'"

McCartney was occupied with working on his second classical album Standing Stone in the interim.

The title Flaming Pie (also given to one of the album's songs) is a reference to an anecdote that John Lennon told in a humorous story published in magazine Mersey Beat in 1961 about the origin of the Beatles' name: "It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'from this day on you are Beatles with an A.' "{{cite book|title=Off the Record: 25 Years of Music Street Press|year=2010|publisher=University of Queensland Press|location=St. Lucia, Qld.|isbn=978-0-7022-4653-1|page=232|edition=[Online-Ausg.].|editor1=Sennett, Sean |editor2=Groth, Simon }}

Two tracks ("Calico Skies" and "Great Day") were recorded on 3 September 1992 with George Martin co-producing. At the time, the Flaming Pie album had not yet been conceived, and the tracks were shelved for some unspecified future use.

Beginning in February 1995, McCartney teamed up with Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra lead singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer, as well as an ardent Beatles fan. Lynne had previously worked with former Beatle George Harrison on his 1987 album Cloud Nine and in the Traveling Wilburys, with Ringo Starr on his 1992 album Time Takes Time, and also co-produced "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" for the Anthology project. Intending to produce something pure and easy – and without elaborate productions – McCartney sporadically recorded the entire album in a space of two years, working not only with Lynne, but with Steve Miller.{{refn|Miller and McCartney had worked together once before, on 1969's "My Dark Hour",{{cite book|last=Clayson |first=Alan |title=Paul McCartney |year=2003 |publisher=Sanctuary |location=London |isbn=978-1-86074-482-2 |pages=253–254}} at Abbey Road Studios. After finding out his son, James, was a fan of Miller, McCartney decided to renew their friendship.|group=nb}} The album also featured the Beatles producer George Martin and drummer Ringo Starr, as well as his own son, James McCartney, who plays lead guitar on "Heaven on a Sunday". McCartney wrote the song "Young Boy" while his wife Linda was making lunch for a New York Times feature on 18 August 1994.{{cite book|last=Benitez|first=Vincent P.|title=The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years|year=2010|publisher=Praeger|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=978-0-313-34969-0|page=146}} McCartney and Miller started recording "Young Boy" on 22 February 1995 in Sun Valley, Idaho. They reconvened a few months afterwards in May at McCartney's home studio, Hog Hill Mill, recording – a song described as a "road song" – "If You Wanna" and the jam track "Used to Be Bad" in the process.{{cite web|title=The McCartney Recording Sessions – 1995|url=http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1995.htm|access-date=5 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226061838/http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1995.htm|archive-date=26 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

The duo also recorded the B-side "Broomstick" and three unreleased tracks: "(Sweet Home) Country Girl", "Soul Boy", and an untitled song. Also in May, McCartney, by himself, recorded the unreleased tracks "Stella May Day", for his daughter Stella McCartney, which would be used playing over loudspeakers at her fashion shows, and "Whole Life" with Dave Stewart.{{refn|McCartney would later re-record "Whole Life" in 2003.|group=nb}} "Somedays", which was written while McCartney was escorting Linda to Kent for a photo shoot, features an orchestration score by George Martin. "The Song We Were Singing",{{refn|McCartney plays a stand-up bass on the track. The bass originally belonged to Elvis Presley's bassist, Bill Black.|group=nb}} which was about the times McCartney and his former songwriting partner John Lennon were at 20 Forthlin Road,{{cite book|last=Carlin|first=Peter Ames|title=Paul McCartney: A Life|year=2010|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4165-6223-8|page=306|edition=illustrated}} was recorded in 3/4 time.{{cite magazine|last=Duffy|first=Thom|title=Album Track Previews|magazine=Billboard|date=12 April 1997|page=76|volume=109|issue=15}} "Little Willow" was written for the children of Starr's first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett, who had recently died of cancer.{{cite book|last=Carlin|first=Peter Ames|title=Paul McCartney: A Life|year=2010|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4165-6223-8|page=305|edition=illustrated}} "Souvenir" features the sound of a 78 rpm record towards the end of the track. The title track, recorded in a four-hour session, is in similar style to that of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna".{{cite book|last=Benitez|first=Vincent P.|title=The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years|year=2010|publisher=Praeger|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|isbn=978-0-313-34969-0|page=147}}

In May 1996, Starr and McCartney were working on a track that McCartney had started a decade earlier, "Beautiful Night", which featured vocals from Starr.{{cite book|last=Harry |first=Bill |title=The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Virgin Books |location=London |isbn=978-0-7535-0843-5 |page=83}} Lynne showed up the next day and the trio, with McCartney on bass, Starr on drums, and Lynne on guitar, jammed, with the finished results being the track "Really Love You", the first track credited to McCartney–Starkey. McCartney and Starr also recorded the B-side "Looking for You" and an untitled song.{{cite web|title=The McCartney Recording Sessions – 1996|url=http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1996.htm|access-date=5 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226063252/http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1996.htm|archive-date=26 December 2013|url-status=dead}} "Heaven on a Sunday", which was written while McCartney was in the US sailing on holiday, was recorded on 16 September 1996, and features backing vocals by both Linda and James. Martin added orchestration to "Beautiful Night", on 14 February 1997 at Abbey Road Studios.{{cite web|title=The McCartney Recording Sessions – 1997|url=http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1997.htm|access-date=5 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226063048/http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1997.htm|archive-date=26 December 2013|url-status=dead}} An unreleased song recorded with Lynne producing, titled "Cello in the Ruins",{{cite web |last=Porter |first=Robert |url=http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks9.php |title=Jeff Lynne Song Database – 1990s Songs |publisher=Jefflynnesongs.com |access-date=28 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720211323/http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks9.php |archive-date=20 July 2013 |url-status=live }} Scroll down to the section header Flaming Pie sessions click Cello in the Ruins then click Unreleased Studio Recording. was registered for copyright in 1994,{{cite web|title=The McCartney Recording Sessions – 1994|url=http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1994.htm|access-date=5 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226062713/http://webpages.charter.net/ram71/1994.htm|archive-date=26 December 2013|url-status=dead}} although work on the song began in May 1995. The track was almost issued as a single for War Child's The Help Album in 1995. This album was the last McCartney studio album to feature vocals and participation from Linda, who died of breast cancer in 1998.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/80516.stm |title=Tributes to Linda McCartney |publisher=BBC News |date=21 April 1998 |access-date=3 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021203193552/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/80516.stm |archive-date=3 December 2002 |url-status=live }}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/flaming-pie-mw0000619231|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|publisher=AllMusic|title=Flaming Pie – Paul McCartney|access-date=6 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605020118/https://www.allmusic.com/album/flaming-pie-mw0000619231|archive-date=5 June 2020|url-status=live}}

| rev2 = Blender

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55123/flaming-pie.html|author=Rosen, Jody|author-link=Jody Rosen|magazine=Blender|title=Paul McCartney: Flaming Pie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227090721/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55123/flaming-pie.html|archive-date=27 December 2010|access-date=6 April 2020|url-status=dead}}

| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|edition=4th|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|year=2006|isbn=0-19-531373-9|chapter=McCartney, Paul|page=1257}}

| rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev4score = B−{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/05/30/new-music-baby-boom-rock-legends/|author=Willman, Chris|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|title=New music from baby-boom rock legends|date=30 May 1997|access-date=6 April 2020}}

| rev5 = The Guardian

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|author=Sullivan, Caroline|work=The Guardian|title=Mac's back|date=9 May 1997}}

| rev6 = Los Angeles Times

| rev6score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-25-ca-62244-story.html|author=Gardner, Elysa|work=Los Angeles Times|title=McCartney Bounces Back in Fab Form|date=25 May 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527063225/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-25/entertainment/ca-62244_1_paul-mccartney|archive-date=27 May 2012|access-date=31 August 2011|url-status=live}}

| rev7 = NME

| rev7score = 5/10{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000738reviews.html|author=Moody, Paul|magazine=NME|title=Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie|date=17 May 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001004105406/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000738reviews.html|archive-date=4 October 2000|access-date=3 November 2019|url-status=dead}}

| rev8 = Q

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|title=Paul McCartney: Flaming Pie|magazine=Q|issue=129|date=June 1997|page=130}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/flaming-pie-19970606|author=DeCurtis, Anthony|author-link=Anthony DeCurtis|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=Flaming Pie|date=26 June 1997|access-date=1 September 2011|page=54|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805041648/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/flaming-pie-19970606|archive-date=5 August 2012|url-status=live}}

| rev10 = USA Today

| rev10score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/music/lem837.htm|author=Gundersen, Edna|author-link=Edna Gundersen|work=USA Today|title=New album scores with simplicity, soulfulness|date=26 May 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180217/http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/music/lem837.htm|archive-date=29 April 1999|access-date=6 April 2020|url-status=dead}}

}}

Upon its 1997 release, on 5 May in the UK on Parlophone and on 20 May in the US on Capitol,{{cite magazine|last=Duffy|first=Thom|title=McCartney Let Loose on Capitol's 'Flaming Pie' Set|magazine=Billboard|date=12 April 1997|page=76|volume=109|issue=15}} the critical reaction to Flaming Pie was strong, with McCartney achieving his best reviews since 1982's Tug of War. With fresh credibility, even with young fans who had been introduced to him through the Anthology project, it debuted at number 2 in the UK in May, giving McCartney his best new entry since Flowers in the Dirt eight years before. It was kept off the top spot by the Spice Girls' album Spice.{{cite web |title=Official Charts Company– 17 May 1997 |publisher=Official Charts Company |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/archive/official-albums-chart/ |access-date=8 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026144532/https://www.officialcharts.com/archive/official-albums-chart/ |archive-date=26 October 2019 |url-status=live }} Flaming Pie was also received positively in the United States, where it became McCartney's first top-10 album since Tug of War.{{cite book|last=McGee|first=Garry|title=Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings|year=2003|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=978-0-87833-304-2|page=155}} Flaming Pie debuted at number 2, with 121,000 copies sold in its first week, behind Spice, which sold 16,500 more copies that week.{{cite magazine|last=Taylor|first=Chuck|title=Capitol, EMI Ignite Global Charts With McCartney's 'Pie'|magazine=Billboard|date=14 June 1997|volume=109|issue=24|page=87}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-05-ca-132-story.html|title='Flaming Pie' Is Hot|work=Los Angeles Times|date=5 June 1997|access-date=1 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108014537/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-05/entertainment/ca-132_1_flaming-pie|archive-date=8 November 2012|url-status=live}}

In both the UK and the US, Flaming Pie was the most commercially successful new entry, and was certified gold in both countries. It was also certified gold in Norway.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifpi.no/sok/lst_trofeer_sok.asp?type=artist |title=IFPI Norsk platebransje |access-date=1 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724180126/http://www.ifpi.no/sok/lst_trofeer_sok.asp?type=artist |archive-date=24 July 2011 }} According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album had sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide up to June 2007.{{cite magazine|url= http://billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003583983&imw=Y |title=Paul McCartney's new album "Memory Almost Full" will be released June 5 in North America|magazine=Billboard|access-date=16 June 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234412/http://billboard.biz/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003583983&imw=Y |archive-date =26 September 2007}}

Three singles were released from the album, "Young Boy", "The World Tonight" and "Beautiful Night", all of which were also released as picture discs, and all became UK top-40 hits. The only single in the US from the album was "The World Tonight", released on 17 April 1997, a top-30 entry on the Billboard Mainstream Rock listing.{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=paul mccartney|chart=Mainstream Rock Tracks}} |title=Paul McCartney – Chart history |magazine=Billboard |access-date=3 March 2013}} The singles featured two non-album B-sides recorded during the Flaming Pie sessions: "Looking for You", an additional jam with Ringo Starr and Jeff Lynne, and "Broomstick", an additional track recorded with Steve Miller; and two tracks that were almost a decade old: "Love Come Tumbling Down" and "Same Love", recorded around the time of the sessions for the "Once Upon a Long Ago" single and Flowers in the Dirt respectively. The singles also featured six Oobu Joobu mini-episodes.

To promote the album, McCartney held an online chat party, and the event entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people in an online chatroom at once.{{cite web|title=Paul McCartney: Here, There and Everywhere|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-19-fi-60311-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=19 May 1997|access-date=29 August 2011|first1=Mark|last1=Glaser|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229074710/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-19/business/fi-60311_1_paul-mccartney|archive-date=29 December 2013|url-status=live}}

In the World Tonight, a film about the making of the album, was broadcast in the UK on ITV, and on VH1 in the US, around the release of the album. Also broadcast was an hour-long radio show about the album on 5 May 1997 on BBC Radio 2. It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, although Bob Dylan won the award with his album Time Out of Mind.{{cite news|title=Grammy Nominations Yield Surprises, Including Newcomer's Success|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/07/arts/grammy-nominations-yield-surprises-including-newcomer-s-success.html|work=The New York Times|date=7 January 1998|access-date=29 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120220942/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/07/arts/grammy-nominations-yield-surprises-including-newcomer-s-success.html|archive-date=20 January 2011|url-status=live}} "Young Boy" and "The World Tonight" appeared in the 1997 Ivan Reitman comedy Fathers' Day.

Flaming Pie was reissued on 31 July 2020 as a part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. Bonus tracks include home demos, outtakes, rough mixes and selections from the radio series Oobu Joobu.{{cite web |url=https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-announces-flaming-pie-archive-collection-release |title=Paul announces 'Flaming Pie' Archive Collection release |publisher=paulmccartney.com |date=12 June 2020 |access-date=13 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613013454/https://www.paulmccartney.com/news-blogs/news/paul-announces-flaming-pie-archive-collection-release |archive-date=13 June 2020 |url-status=live }}

{{Track listing

| headline = Flaming Pie track listing

| extra_column = Producer

| all_writing = Paul McCartney, except where noted

| title1 = The Song We Were Singing

| extra1 = Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne

| length1 = 3:54

| title2 = The World Tonight

| extra2 = McCartney, Lynne

| length2 = 4:04

| title3 = If You Wanna

| extra3 = McCartney

| length3 = 4:37

| title4 = Somedays

| extra4 = McCartney

| length4 = 4:15

| title5 = Young Boy

| extra5 = McCartney

| length5 = 3:54

| title6 = Calico Skies

| extra6 = McCartney, George Martin

| length6 = 2:32

| title7 = Flaming Pie

| extra7 = McCartney, Lynne

| length7 = 2:29

| title8 = Heaven on a Sunday

| extra8 = McCartney, Lynne

| length8 = 4:26

| title9 = Used to Be Bad

| note9 = duet with Steve Miller

| writer9 = McCartney, Miller

| extra9 = McCartney

| length9 = 4:12

| title10 = Souvenir

| extra10 = McCartney, Lynne

| length10 = 3:40

| title11 = Little Willow

| extra11 = McCartney, Lynne

| length11 = 2:58

| title12 = Really Love You

| writer12 = McCartney, Richard Starkey

| extra12 = McCartney, Lynne

| length12 = 5:18

| title13 = Beautiful Night| extra13 = McCartney, Lynne

| length13 = 5:04

| title14 = Great Day

| extra14 = McCartney, Martin

| length14 = 2:09

}}

On 12 June 2020, it was officially announced that the album reissues of Flaming Pie would be released on 31 July 2020, as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection series. The Flaming Pie reissues were published in several editions:

• Special edition (2-CD): The original 14-track album on the first disc, including previously unreleased home recordings, demos, and non-album singles on a second disc.
• Deluxe edition (5-CD/2-DVD): The original 14-track album on the first disc, home recordings on the second disc, previously unreleased demos on the third disc, and non-album singles on a fourth disc. Also included are 2 DVDs containing the In the World Tonight documentary, original music videos, EPKs, interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes material.
• Gatefold double vinyl (2-LP): The original 14-track album remastered.
• Gatefold triple vinyl (3-LP): In addition to the original 14-track album, the third vinyl includes special home recordings, as well as a link to download materials.
• Collectors edition (4-LP/5-CD/2-DVD): Contains the entire contents of the deluxe edition, as well as exclusive vinyl versions of the remastered album cut at half speed across 2 LPs in an exclusive gatefold sleeve and an LP of home recordings in a hand-stamped white label sleeve. Also included are six silkscreened Linda McCartney art prints and an exclusive etched vinyl pressing of "Ballad of the Skeletons", co-written with Allen Ginsberg, along with a similarly themed poster.

Disc 1

The original 14-track album.

Disc 2 – Home Recordings

1. "The Song We Were Singing" {{small|(home recording)}} – 5:26
2. "The World Tonight" {{small|(home recording)}} – 2:27
3. "If You Wanna" {{small|(home recording)}} – 3:01
4. "Somedays" {{small|(home recording)}} – 4:16
5. "Young Boy" {{small|(home recording)}} – 2:23
6. "Calico Skies" {{small|(home recording)}} – 2:32
7. "Flaming Pie" {{small|(home recording)}} – 1:41
8. "Souvenir" {{small|(home recording)}} – 2:56
9. "Little Willow" {{small|(home recording)}} – 2:27
10. "Beautiful Night" {{small|(1995 demo)}} – 4:27
11. "Great Day" {{small|(home recording)}} – 3:30

Disc 3 – In the Studio

1. "Great Day" {{small|(acoustic)}} – 2:18
2. "Calico Skies" {{small|(acoustic)}} – 2:06
3. "C'mon Down C'mon Baby" – 1:24
4. "If You Wanna" {{small|(demo)}} – 1:55
5. "Beautiful Night" {{small|(run through)}} – 4:10
6. "The Song We Were Singing" {{small|(rough mix)}} – 3:51
7. "The World Tonight" {{small|(rough mix)}} – 3:48
8. "Little Willow" {{small|(rough mix)}} – 2:59
9. "Whole Life" {{small|(rough mix)}} – 5:34
10. "Heaven on a Sunday" {{small|(rude cassette)}} – 4:43

Disc 4 – Flaming Pies

1. "The Ballad of the Skeletons" – 7:54
2. "Looking for You" – 4:42
3. "Broomstick" {{small|(with Steve Miller)}} – 5:10
4. "Love Come Tumbling Down" – 4:24
5. "Same Love" – 3:56
6. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 1)}} – 8:48
7. *"I Love This House" – 3:41
8. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 2)}} – 8:27
9. *"Atlantic Ocean" – 6:25
10. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 3)}} – 7:57
11. *"Squid" – 6:25
12. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 4)}} – 5:31
13. *"Don't Break the Promise" – 3:39
14. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 5)}} – 8:48
15. *"Beautiful Night" {{small|(original version)}} – 4:02
16. "Oobu Joobu" {{small|(Part 6)}} – 9:17
17. *"Love Mix" – 3:02

Disc 5 – Flaming Pie at the Mill

1. "Intro" – 2:38
2. "Mellotron and Synthesizer / Mini Moog" – 7:40
3. "Harpsichord" – 3:26
4. "Celeste" – 1:05
5. "Piano" – 1:26
6. "Bill Black Bass" – 3:05
7. "Drums" – 3:57
8. "Höfner Bass" – 2:16
9. "Guitar" – 6:06
10. "Spinet" – 2:16
11. "Bells" – 3:20
12. "Control Room" – 23:17

Disc 6 – DVD (In the World Tonight)

Disc 7 – DVD Bonus Films

1. "Beautiful Night"
2. "Making of Beautiful Night"
3. "Little Willow"
4. "The World Tonight" {{small|(directed by Alistar Donald)}}
5. "The World Tonight" {{small|(directed by Geoff Wonfor)}}
6. "Young Boy" {{small|(directed by Alistar Donald)}}
7. "Young Boy" {{small|(directed Geoff Wonfor)}}
8. "Flaming Pie EPK 1"
9. "Flaming Pie EPK 2"
10. "In the World Tonight EPK"
11. "Flaming Pie Album Artwork Meeting"
12. "TFI Friday Performances"
13. "David Frost interview"

Additional download tracks available via paulmccartney.com

• "Beautiful Night" {{small|(1986)}} – 6:14
• "Somedays" {{small|(without orchestra)}} – 4:29
• "Calico Skies" {{small|('In the World Tonight' Campfire Acoustic)}} – 2:38

via download code:

• "Great Day" {{small|(instrumental)}}
• "Beautiful Night/You're a Bastard"

Personnel per booklet.{{cite AV media notes|title=Flaming Pie |others=Paul McCartney |year=1997 |type=Booklet |publisher=MPL Communications / Parlophone, EMI |id=724385650024, CDPCSD 171}}

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;Musicians

• Paul McCartney – lead vocal, harmony vocal, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, double bass, drums, harmonium, piano, twelve-string guitar, Spanish guitar, Hammond organ, knee slap, Fender Rhodes, harpsichord, vibraphone, mellotron, backing vocals
• Jeff Lynne – harmony vocal, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboard, backing vocals, spinette, harpsichord
• Steve Miller – harmony vocal, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocal, rhythm guitar, lead vocal on "Used to Be Bad"
• Keith Pascoe, Jackie Hartley, Rita Manning, Peter Manning, Marcia Crayford, Adrian Levin, Belinda Bunt, Bernard Patridge, Jackie Hartley, Keith Pascoe, David Woodcock, Roger Garland, Julian Tear, Briony Shaw, Jeremy Williams, David Ogden, Bogustav Kostecki, Maciej Rakowski, Jonathan Rees – violin
• Christian Kampen, Martin Loveday, Anthony Pleeth, Stephen Orton, Martin Loveday, Robert Bailey – cello
• Peter Lale, Levine Andrade, Robert Smissen, Stephen Tess, Levine Andrade, Philip Dukes, Ivo Van Der Werff, Graeme Scott – viola
• Martin Parry, Susan Milan, Andy Findon, Michael Cox – flute
• Skaila Kanga – harp
• Roy Carter – oboe, English horn
• Linda McCartney – backing vocals
• James McCartney – electric guitar
• Michael Thompson, Richard Bissill, Richard Watkins, John Pigneguy – French horns
• Chris 'Snake' Davis, Dave Bishop – saxophone
• Ringo Starr – drums, percussion
• John Barclay, Kevin Robinson, Andrew Crowley, Mark Bennett – trumpet
• Richard Edwards, Andy Fawbert – trombone
• Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Nigel Black – horns
• Chris Laurence, Robin McGee – double bass
• David Theodore – oboe

;Technical

• Paul McCartney, Jeff Lynne, George Martin – producers
• George Martin – orchestration
• David Snell – conductor
• Geoff Emerick, Jon Jacobs, Bob Kraushaar – engineers
• Keith Smith, Frank Farrell – assistant engineers
• Marc Mann – digital sequencing
• Geoff Emerick – orchestral session engineer on "Somedays"
• Geoff Foster – orchestral session assistant engineer on "Somedays"
• Geoff Emerick, Jon Jacobs, Peter Cabbin – orchestral session engineer on "Beautiful Night"
• Paul Hicks – orchestral session assistant engineer on "Beautiful Night"

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; Footnotes

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; Citations

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• {{Discogs master|type=album|184575|name=Flaming Pie}}
• [http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pcsd171.html Flaming Pie] at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages

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