Paul McCartney / SHM-CD - 5CD Bundle - Batch 3

5CD bundle: McCartney II, Tug of War, Pipes of Peace, CHOBA B CCP & Flowers in the Dirt • 2025 Japan 'paper sleeve' SHM-CD • Luxury vinyl replica presentation • Very limited

**ONE BUNDLE PER CUSTOMER please (multiple orders will be cancelled!)**

This is the third batch of limited edition Japanese 'paper sleeve' / mini-LP SHM-CD releases of Paul McCartney post-Beatles albums. SHM-CD is compatible with all CD players! 

This is a BUNDLE containing the following five albums on SHM-CD:

• McCartney II (1980)
• Tug of War (1982)
• Pipes of Peace (1983)
• CHOBA B CCCP aka 'The Russian Album' (1988)
• Flowers in the Dirt (1989)

Each are presented as vinyl replica CDs with the usual exacting standards from Japan including OBI-strip, extra booklet with Japanese lyrics, 'rice paper' sleeve for disc protection and re-sealable outer clear sleeve.

The masterings are all as per the original Archive Collection releases, so 2011 for McCartney II, 2015 for Pipes of Peace, 2019 for CHOBA B CCCP and 2017 for Flowers in the Dirt. Tug of War is the 2015 remix.

There are only 150 of these bundles available. ONE PER CUSTOMER please (multiple orders will be cancelled!).

All five SHM-CDs are released on 23 May 2025.

McCartney II

McCartney II was Paul’s first solo album since the formation of Wings in 1971. While it‘s highly electronic style was certainly innovative, its cosily domestic origins were reminiscent of 1970’s McCartney album. Recorded in the summer of 1979, when the future of Wings remained uncertain, the album was conceived at home on Paul’s farm in Scotland.

2011 remaster. Includes inner-sleeve and white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics. 

Tug Of War

Released in 1982, Tug of War was Paul’s first solo album after Wings’ split was confirmed, and followed the death of John Lennon, whose memory is poignantly evoked on the track ‘Here Today’. The album saw him reunite with producer George Martin and included two duets with Stevie Wonder, one of which, ‘Ebony And Ivory’, was Number 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. The sessions were so fruitful that a number of songs were held over for Pipes of Peace, which followed in 1983. Upon its release, Tug of War was nominated for the 1983 Grammy for Album of the Year.

2015 remix. Includes inner-sleeve and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics. 

Pipes Of Peace

Released in 1983, featuring songs initially recorded during sessions for the Tug of War album, Pipes of Peace continued Paul’s rich vein of song-writing form and included two massive hits, the Michael Jackson duet ‘Say Say Say’ and the number 1 title track. The collaboration with Jackson – then the biggest star on the planet thanks to the success of his Thriller album – extended to another track, the breezy ‘The Man’. Lyrically, the album features Paul’s thoughts on love, peace and the future, centred around the symbol of the pipes of peace.

2015 remaster. Includes inner-sleeve and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

CHOBA B CCCP

CHOBA B CCCP, the Russian translation of “Back in the USSR”, was released in the Soviet Union in 1988, making Paul the first artist from the West to issue an album exclusively for that market. (It was released in the rest of the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.) Ruminating on the next stage of his career following 1986’s Press to Play, Paul decided he wanted to get back to his roots, so hired three session musicians and spent just two days covering his favourite hits from the 1950s.

2019 remaster. Includes insert and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.

Flowers In The Dirt

Released in 1989, mixing technology with traditional instruments such as brass, strings and organ, Flowers in the Dirt featured several tracks composed with fellow musician Elvis Costello. The album – seen by many as a strong return to form – also featured musicians that Paul would come to use regularly like Hamish Stuart, Robbie McIntosh and Chris Whitten, and production from the likes of Trevor Horn, Mitchell Froom and Steve Lipson.The album crashed into the UK charts at Number 1 in June 1989 and spent nearly a year in the US charts.

2017 remaster. Includes booklet, inner sleeve and the white booklet featuring the Japanese translations of the lyrics.