"Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney, performed with Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 29 of that year. The song is featured on McCartney's album Tug of War as well as several of Wonder's Greatest Hits albums. The song reached number one on both the UK and the US charts in 1982. At the simplest level, the song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony on a deeper level.
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- "Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney, performed with Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 29 of that year. The song is featured on McCartney's album Tug of War as well as several of Wonder's Greatest Hits albums. The song reached number one on both the UK and the US charts in 1982. At the simplest level, the song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony on a deeper level. The title was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say "black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony folks!". The figure is much older. It was popularized by James Aggrey in the 1920s, inspiring the title of the pan-African journal The Keys, but was in use from at least the 1840s. Although written by McCartney alone, the song was performed live in the studio by both McCartney and Wonder, though due to conflicting work schedules, both recorded their parts for the song's music video separately (as explained by McCartney in his commentary for The McCartney Years 3-dvd boxed set). "Ebony and Ivory" spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the fourth-biggest hit of 1982. For McCartney, the song's run atop the chart was the longest of any of his post-Beatles works, and second longest career-wise; for Wonder, it was his longest-running chart-topper. The song also spent five weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. It would also mark the first time that any single released by any member of the Beatles would hit the Billboard Black Singles charts. Following the song's massive chart success, it was derided as "saccharine" and was later named as the tenth worst song of all time by Blender magazine. On October 2007 it was named the worst duet in history by BBC 6 Music listeners. The song listed at #59 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time. This song has been parodied in many US television shows, such as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Everybody Hates Chris and Saturday Night Live, as well as movies such as Undercover Brother and Guess Who.
- Ebony and Ivory è un celebre brano musicale del 1982 registrato in duetto da Paul McCartney e Stevie Wonder. Il brano fu pubblicato come singolo il 29 marzo 1982 dalla Parlophone/EMI in Europa e dalla Columbia Records negli Stati Uniti, ed inserito nell'album Tug of War di McCartney, oltre che in numerosi greatest hits di entrambi i cantanti.
- エボニー・アンド・アイボリー（Ebony and Ivory）は、1982年にポール・マッカートニー&スティーヴィー・ワンダー（Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder）が発表した楽曲。及び、同曲を収録したシングル。
- «Ebony And Ivory» er en sang skrevet av Paul McCartney. Sangen er i dag en av hans mest kjente solosanger etter hans dager med The Beatles. Den ble en verdenshit og en nummer 1-hit både i England og USA. Sangen er hentet fra McCartneys suksessfulle 1982-album Tug of War og er en duett med Stevie Wonder. Tidligere Beatles-produsent George Martin produserte selve albumet, i tillegg til selve sangen.
- Ebony and Ivory é uma single número um 1982 por Paul McCartney, realizada com Stevie Wonder. Foi lançada em 29 de Março desse ano. Resumidamente, a canção é sobre o ébano e marfim teclas de piano, mas também tem haver com a integração e harmonia racial de maneira mais profunda. O título foi inspirado por McCartney ouvindo Spike Milligan dizer "notas pretas, notas brancas, e você precisa tocar as duas pra fazer harmonia gente!".. A canção está no album de McCartney Tug of War. A canção chegou ao número um no Reino Unido em 1982. Embora escrita por McCartney sozinho, a canção foi realizada ao vivo no estudio por McCartney junto com Stevie Wonder, porém devido aos conflitos de horário de trabalho, ambos gravaram suas partes no video musical separadamente (como é explicado pelo Paul em seu comentário "The McCartney Years", conjunto embalado de 3 DVDs). "Ebony and Ivory" ficou durante sete semanas em Nro. 1 em Billboard Hot 100, e foi o quarto maior hit de 1982. Para McCartney, a canção atigiu o topo dos gráficos de qualquer obra sua pós-Beatles, e seconda mais longa da carreira; para Wonder, foi o seu mais antigo executado chart-topper. A canção passou cinco semanas acima do adult contemporary chart.
- Ebony and Ivory är en ballad, skriven av Paul McCartney, och framförd av honom själv i en duett med Stevie Wonder. Den släpptes som singel och toppade den brittiska singellistan och den amerikanska singellistan 1982. Sången handlar om att svart och vitt funkar bra ihop på ett piano, och att svarta och vita männsikor lika gärna också borde kunna göra det.
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- "Ebony and Ivory" is a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney, performed with Stevie Wonder. It was released on March 29 of that year. The song is featured on McCartney's album Tug of War as well as several of Wonder's Greatest Hits albums. The song reached number one on both the UK and the US charts in 1982. At the simplest level, the song is about the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano, but also deals with integration and racial harmony on a deeper level.
- Ebony and Ivory è un celebre brano musicale del 1982 registrato in duetto da Paul McCartney e Stevie Wonder. Il brano fu pubblicato come singolo il 29 marzo 1982 dalla Parlophone/EMI in Europa e dalla Columbia Records negli Stati Uniti, ed inserito nell'album Tug of War di McCartney, oltre che in numerosi greatest hits di entrambi i cantanti.
- エボニー・アンド・アイボリー（Ebony and Ivory）は、1982年にポール・マッカートニー&スティーヴィー・ワンダー（Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder）が発表した楽曲。及び、同曲を収録したシングル。
- «Ebony And Ivory» er en sang skrevet av Paul McCartney. Sangen er i dag en av hans mest kjente solosanger etter hans dager med The Beatles. Den ble en verdenshit og en nummer 1-hit både i England og USA. Sangen er hentet fra McCartneys suksessfulle 1982-album Tug of War og er en duett med Stevie Wonder. Tidligere Beatles-produsent George Martin produserte selve albumet, i tillegg til selve sangen.
- Ebony and Ivory é uma single número um 1982 por Paul McCartney, realizada com Stevie Wonder. Foi lançada em 29 de Março desse ano. Resumidamente, a canção é sobre o ébano e marfim teclas de piano, mas também tem haver com a integração e harmonia racial de maneira mais profunda. O título foi inspirado por McCartney ouvindo Spike Milligan dizer "notas pretas, notas brancas, e você precisa tocar as duas pra fazer harmonia gente!".. A canção está no album de McCartney Tug of War.
- Ebony and Ivory är en ballad, skriven av Paul McCartney, och framförd av honom själv i en duett med Stevie Wonder. Den släpptes som singel och toppade den brittiska singellistan och den amerikanska singellistan 1982. Sången handlar om att svart och vitt funkar bra ihop på ett piano, och att svarta och vita männsikor lika gärna också borde kunna göra det.
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