Featuring McCartney Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Girl Is Mine

Of the two songs, "Say Say Say", taken from McCartney's "Pipes of Peace" (1983) album was the bigger hit, reaching number one in Canada and in USA on the Billboard Hot 100.
To celebrate the track's 25th anniversary, "The Girl Is Mine" was remixed in 2008 by will.i.am, the result proving that even the best in the business have off days.

Answer: The Fireman

McCartney invited Youth to trade ideas in 1993, while recording his "Off the Ground" album and this led to the first album by The Fireman, "Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest" (1993), which as a techno/electronic dance music album was far removed from McCartney's normal output.
They followed this with "Rushes" in 1998, which continued in the techno vein, but also introduced elements of rock music and in 2008, released "Electric Arguments", which had a rockier feel to it than the previous two releases.

Answer: Johnny Cash

"New Moon Over Jamaica" was a track from Cash's 75th album, "Water from the Wells of Home", which also featured appearances from stars such as Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell and the Everly Brothers.
This song which Paul co-wrote with Cash and Tom T. Hall is one of the few country and western tracks in McCartney's back catalogue and it also features his wife Linda on backing vocals.

Answer: Nirvana

Grohl and Novoselic along with Kurt Cobain made up the grunge icons that were Nirvana, and although Smear was never a fully fledged member of the band, he was their touring guitarist between 1993 and 1994, appearing on the "MTV Unplugged in New York" (1994) album and the "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" live compilation album which was released in 1996. "Cut Me Some Slack" was recorded as a part of the soundtrack to the Dave Grohl directed movie, "Sound City" (2013) which was a documentary tracing the history of the famous Sound City studios in Los Angeles.

The track won the Grammy award for Best Rock Song in 2014, beating off competition from Black Sabbath and The Rolling Stones.

Answer: Badfinger

McCartney wrote the track in 1969, but it was never put out as a Beatles release until 1996, when it was included on the "Anthology 3" retrospective album.
Paul not only gave the track to Badfinger, but also produced it for them as well, which doubtless helped in it becoming the first of their three top ten hits in UK and on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in USA.
Hollyood Vampires are a rock band formed by Alice Coooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp, who have used a variety of superstar guest musicians since their inception in 2015.

Answer: Ian Dury

In 1977, the wonderful Ian Dury released his debut album, "New Boots and Panties!!", which was a top five hit on the UK album charts. Needing to tour, in order to promote the album, required a backing band and the Blockheads were formed with this aim.
When Dury died of cancer in 2000, the Blockheads thought it would be a fitting tribute to his genius to re record the album with a series of guest vocalists, including McCartney, Robbie Williams and Shane MacGowan.

Answer: FourFiveSeconds

"FourFiveSeconds" (2015) was the second of McCartney's three consecutive collaborations with Kanye that charted, preceded by "Only One" in 2014 and followed by "All Day" in 2015, which was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Rap Song, but lost out to "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar. I always felt that this was a shame as I for one, would have loved to see Sir Paul receiving a Grammy for Best Rap Song, even if he had to share it with Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom, who also guested on the track by West.

Answer: Elvis Costello

McCartney is on record as having said that he both loved working with Costello and at the same time was unnerved by it, as they naturally fell into a style of writing that was very similar to the way in which he wrote with John Lennon.
The McCartney/Costello partnership produced well over a dozen tracks, which the two shared on their solo albums, with McCartney including "You Want Her Too" and "My Brave Face" on his "Flowers in the Dirt" (1989) album and Costello using "Veronica" and "Pads, Paws and Claws" on his "Spike" album of the same year.
Chart wise, honours were about even as "Veronica" charted higher on the Billboard Hot 100 in USA than "My Brave Face", but "My Brave Face" went higher on UK charts.

Answer: Dolly Parton

"Boots and Sand" was written by Yusuf, then known as Yusuf Islam, after he was denied entry to USA in 2004 on national security grounds although the ban was lifted in 2006 and he has performed several times in USA since.
The track was from his "Roadsinger" album, which was his follow up "An Other Cup" (2006), which was his first western pop album since the Cat Stevens album, "Back to Earth" in 1978.
The music video for "Boots and Sand" was directed by Jesse Dylan, the son of another folk legend, Bob Dylan.

Answer: Scrambled Eggs

McCartney woke one morning with the melody to "Yesterday" in his head, but he and Lennon needed time to work on the lyrics, so started with nonsense lyrics until the song took shape.
When he appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" in 2010, Fallon guested with McCartney on a duet of the song, using the original lyrics plus some extra ones involving waffle fries and tofu wings.