Paul McCartney - Recording 'It's Not On' (Air Studios, London, March, 18th 1982, Restored)

Following interviews with the Japanese press, Paul & George Martin held a recording session, which was filmed, for the song "It's Not On". This unreleased song remained unheard until it was included in Paul's archive edition of his album "Pipes Of Peace" in October 2015.

Some footage from this session was included (in better shape, due to being telecined) in the studio "Tug Of War" and "Here Today" promo videos.

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[oliver]

His whole look here is great and iconic, he looks like a more cleaned version of how he looked in 1968.

[phiniram]

Great song! One of the highlights from the Pipes of Peace boxset

[quiricomazarin]

Pipes of peace the unwanted twin of tug of war.

[derianimp]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song before

[lauranielsen]

I understand why he never released it...

[bettylaselli]

Very nice video ! Thanks for sharing ❤

[FunNone]

If you were here today, if you were in my song

[felixbergbauer]

I wish he had put this on Pipes of Peace, it would've fit right in with Say Say Say, Keep Under Cover, Average Person, Tug of Peace, etc ... that album was really whimsical and fun, a little zany and had a lot of charm to it with all the playfulness. You know, the 80s were a crazy unforgiving period for pop musicians and this is the best thing he could've made from it imo
I can see why people dislike the pitched overdubbed talking but I just love it, it gives this song so much character.

[tyrellcruz]

I thought he was singing Here Today on this video for so long because of that one video you did 😂😂

[nates.]

That basic acoustic part seems to have been done with a Linn LM-1 guide part! Pretty good tune but if the narrating sounding parts weren’t there it would be better

[tyronerodgers]

What happened to the Stow School upload?

Why did he overdub that pitched up spoken part I will never understand

[sentient_baby_carrot]

OMG THANK YOU

I ❤ weird mccartney

i always wondered what george martin thought of this song and.... well. this is hilarious

[Peakabike]

What happened to the George Martin who (allegedly) told Macca in 1980 that some of the demos he gave him to listen to were not very good ! Second hand pot smoke maybe ? ;-)

[giorgiomadde]

Meno male che e' rimasto un'inedito

[YeudielAD]

Ahora entienden ¿porque ningún productor musical lo soporta? Si el que más lo conocía haciendo muecas y pesando, total discos vende. No digas nada....

[faridhermansyah]

Hahaha it's a crap ! No wonder it is not in the album