Editing Back to the Egg (section)

==Aftermath and reissues==
{{quote box|quote= These days you talk to some young people and it's really cool if you don't make the charts. It's very alien to my way of thinking&nbsp;... [But] in a way it's quite cool to have a few albums that didn't make it. I didn't mean [''Back to the Egg''] to be underground, but it's nice.<ref>{{cite book|author=Du Noyer, Paul|chapter=Alone Again, or&nbsp;... |title=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]: The Beatles' Final Years Special Edition|year=2003|publisher=[[Emap]]|location=London|page=64}}</ref>|source= – McCartney, 2001, reflecting on the relative failure of the album|width=25%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}
With the album falling well short of Columbia's and McCartney's expectations commercially, McCartney spent the remainder of summer 1979 recording in Peasmarsh and Campbeltown, without Wings,<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 241, 248–49</ref> creating his solo album ''[[McCartney II]]'' (1980).<ref name="McGee pp 127, 128" /> During November and December 1979, US TV stations aired the 31-minute ''Back to the Egg'' special, as Wings undertook a nineteen-show [[Wings UK Tour 1979|UK tour]],<ref>Badman, pp. 238, 239</ref> the first leg of the proposed world tour.<ref name=FAQ66/> Among the songs in the setlist, they performed several tracks from ''Back to the Egg'': "Getting Closer", "Again and Again and Again", "Old Siam, Sir", "Spin It On" and "Arrow Through Me".<ref>Madinger and Easter, p. 254</ref>

The band were scheduled to tour Japan during January and February 1980,<ref name=FAQ66/> but the concerts, together with their tour dates elsewhere in the world,<ref>Benitez, p. 11</ref> were cancelled after McCartney was arrested for possession of drugs when entering the country.<ref name=Band135>McGee, p. 135</ref> Around this time, "Rockestra Theme" won the [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance]].<ref name=W&M91/> Wings regrouped in October 1980 to finish off songs for the planned ''[[Cold Cuts (Paul McCartney album)|Cold Cuts]]'' album,<ref>Madinger and Easter, p. 260</ref> a compilation that McCartney had suggested when CBS sought to recover part of its financial losses from ''Back to the Egg''.<ref name="Sounes p 365">Sounes, p. 265</ref>{{refn|Originally planned as an Apple Records budget release in 1974,<ref>Spizer, p. 199</ref> ''Cold Cuts'' was turned down by Columbia.<ref name="Sounes p 365" />|group="nb"}} The reunion with Wings was short-lived and the band discontinued upon Laine's departure in April 1981.<ref name=W&M97>Benitez, p. 97</ref>

On 20 June 1989, by which time McCartney had returned to Capitol Records,<ref>''The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll'', p. 639</ref> ''Back to the Egg'' was released on CD in America<ref>Badman, p. 425</ref> with three bonus tracks:<ref name=W&M95/> "Daytime Nighttime Suffering",<ref>Ingham, p. 143</ref> McCartney's 1979 [[Christmas]] single "[[Wonderful Christmastime]]", and the latter's B-side, "[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (song)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae]]".<ref>Madinger and Easter, pp. 207, 251, 608</ref> In August 1993,<ref>Badman, p. 508</ref> Parlophone reissued the album as part of ''[[The Paul McCartney Collection]]'' with the same three bonus tracks. Samples of "Reception" and "The Broadcast" appeared on [[The Fireman (music)|the Fireman]]'s ''[[Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest]]'' (1993) album, a collaboration between McCartney and [[Martin Glover|Youth]].<ref>Madinger and Easter, p. 350</ref> In 2007, ''Back to the Egg'' was released on [[ITunes Store|iTunes]], with a remix of "Goodnight Tonight" as a bonus track.<ref name=W&M95/>