Musicians appearing :
Paul, Eric Stewart, Phil Collins, Pete Townshend,
Jerry Marotta, Carlos Alomar, Eddie Raynor, Nick Glennie-Smith, Dick Morrisey, Ray Cooper, Simon Chamberlain, Graham Ward, Lennie Pickett, Gary Barnacle, Gavin Wright and John Bradbury.
Backing Vocals :
Linda, Eric Stewart, Kate Robbins and Ruby James. Spoken words on "Talk More Talk" are Linda and James McCartney.

TWO VERSIONS !
In the U.K. two different versions of this album were issued ! ... the whole explanation can be quite confusing, but read on ... initially 45,000 copies were pressed which contained a version of "Press" mixed by Bert Bevans and Steve Forward, but later copies contained the original Hugh Padgham mix. The covers are the same for both though, and to tell which copy you have you need to look at the etching on the run-out groove. The Bevans/Forward version has PCSD 103 B-7-1-1 stamped on it, whilst the later release had PCSD 103 B-1U-1-2.
(Incidentally, my copy also has stamped on the run-out groove PCS 7306 which is struck through.)
The original 7" single in the U.K. of "Press" had the Padgham mix, and both mixes were on a limited edition 10" single. And finally, when the Fame re-issues occured in 1988, they released the two versions of the album too.

Recording Sessions
March-May 1985 in Paul's Sussex studio - "Stranglehold", "Good Times Coming", "Feel The Sun", "Talk More Talk", "Footprints", "Press", "Pretty Little Head", "Move Over Busker", "However Absurd" were recorded.
Also during these sessions the bonus tracks, "Write Away", "It's Not True" and "Tough On A Tightrope" appeared.
"Yvonne" was also recorded which is unreleased. It does appear on a bootleg of the same title which I have, and later a version was released on a 10cc album (it was a McCartney/Stewart collaboration).
October-6th December 1985 in Paul's Scottish studios - "Only Love Remains", "Angry" amd "Hanglide" are completed.
Final mixing takes place January/February 1986.

George Hurrell took the cover photograph with the same box camera he used in Hollywood in the thirties.
The images in the centre spread are stereo drawings made by Paul during mixing, to pin-point the position of sounds in the stereo picture.
The inner sleeve is grey thick card with the lyrics upon (no pictures).

The musicians, producers, engineers, tea breaks, tension and performances, were laid on just for you.