Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - Ebony And Ivory (Rare Alternate Video)

[KitsuHitsuyy]

Presented here is a rarely-seen and unbootlegged version of this classic video. With exclusive scenes of Paul and Stevie, mainly during the instrumental sections, showing Paul on various instruments. More info by Mike Carrera regarding the taping of the video and it's variation:



"With the digital magic of the time, the 'duet' version with Stevie Wonder was filmed remotely, Paul did his scenes in London while Stevie was filmed separately in the United States days later, they were never together in the video shoot. It was based on the Solo Version # 2 that Paul had already filmed and only some of his scenes were replaced with the new ones of Stevie. It was first broadcast on BBC on April 8, 1982. This same version circulates with two variants of the original slate, one for the United Kingdom that shows a black background and pink letters with a scene of Paul yawning inserted during the countdown between seconds 21 to 18. And the second for the United States with a simple black-and-white design.

A second variation of the 'duet' version has remained undocumented to this day although it was broadcast a couple of times on television in 1982. It includes different scenes towards the end such as Paul winking, and twirling with the acoustic guitar, and keyboard and drum close-ups not shown in the first Edit; plus a unique scene of Stevie Wonder before the lights go out, and also towards the middle of the video there is an additional scene of Paul on drums.

The total of different scenes compared to Edition A is 14.
This variation has never been included in any official release or Bootleg to date, nor has it been registered in books or web pages."

[Alessandro Rocchi]

Thank you very much, Kitsu!

[Joker]

I think this was the edit they used on Tug Of War TV ad.

[KitsuHitsuyy]

I think this was the edit they used on Tug Of War TV ad.

It's really similar, but the version on the AD is actually the second solo video, without Steve, which is not available in full.

[Liverpools Boy]

Many thanks bro for this noticeable update. Like Mike C, we are in the hunt for things like this and the Mull of Kintyre #5 (1977) -the Abbey Road Version, -for example-. to complete our collections. A Hug.

[Fungomatto03]

That Bongo player like on Goodnight Tonight video