Songoftheday 8/6/14 - We don't know the meaning of fear we play every minute by ear, one for all and all for one everybody's on the run...

Paul McCartney - "Spies Like Us"
from the reissue of the album Press To Play (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #7 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's Song of the Day comes from one of rock and roll's most respected and popular icons, Paul McCartney, who's mid-eighties work was coming to a coast it seemed with his foray into the movies with the film Give My Regards To Broad Street, even though he was still hitting the top-10 with the pleasant "No More Lonely Nights" in 1984. Before releasing another studio album in a gap spanning almost four years, Paul recorded a one-off single for the Chevy Chase/Dan Akyroyd comedy Spies Like Us as the title song. I can't really say much more than it seems to have been written on the fly in the studio, and even for a movie song is so horrid that even Paul decided to leave it off any album or soundtrack (until Capitol re-released his Press To Play on CD decades later)...

Most likely on name recognition alone, "Spies Like Us" became Paul's final top-10 pop single in the US in February of 1986, while stopping at #13 in McCartney's native England. It was also a top-40 hit in Canada (#24) and a minor hit in Australia...

Lord, I'm sure he's embarrassed about this one. I am. This remain in my top-ten worst hit songs of all time list (of course headed by "We Built This City" from the same year...)

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The Art of Noise handled the remix of the song for the 12" single...

Up tomorrow: A Motown star tells you to leave.