Hope of Deliverance

"Hope of Deliverance"
Single by Paul McCartney
from the album Off the Ground
B-side "Long Leather Coat"
Released 28 December 1992 (UK)
12 January 1993 (US)
Format CD maxi, 7" single, cassette
Recorded 1992
Genre Rock
Length 3:20 (album version)
Label Capitol
Parlophone
Writer(s) Paul McCartney
Producer Paul McCartney
Julian Mendelsohn
Paul McCartney singles chronology
"All My Trials"
(1990)		 "Hope of Deliverance"
(1993)		 "C'Mon People"
(1993)

"Hope of Deliverance" is a hit song by Paul McCartney, featured on his 1993 album Off the Ground. It became a hit in his native UK, reaching #18.[1] It did not fare well on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #83, but did better on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, hitting #9.[2] It is part of Paul McCartney's massive singles catalogue. It also did very well in Germany, reaching #3 there, and is still gaining a lot of airplay in Central and Eastern European radios as well as in South America. A popular remix also was released around the time the single was released, and picked up massive airplay in clubs.

Contents

Track listings

7" single
  1. "Hope of Deliverance" — 3:20
  2. "Long Leather Coat" — 3:33
Audio cassette
  1. "Hope of Deliverance" — 3:20
  2. "Long Leather Coat" — 3:33
CD maxi
  1. "Hope of Deliverance" — 3:20
  2. "Big Boys Bickering" — 3:19
  3. "Long Leather Coat" — 3:33
  4. "Kicked Around No More" by P. McCartney and L. McCartney — 5:25

Personnel

Charts and sales

Peak positions

Chart (1992/93) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[4] 29
Austrian Singles Chart[4] 4
Dutch Top 40[5] 8
French SNEP Singles Chart[4] 13
German Media Control Singles Chart[6] 3
Irish Singles Chart[7] 28
Japanese Oricon Singles Chart[8] 88
Norwegian VG-lista Singles Chart[4] 4
Swedish Singles Chart[4] 26
Swiss Singles Chart[4] 5
UK Singles Chart[9] 18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 83
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks[10] 9

End of year charts

End of year chart (1993) Position
Dutch Top 40[5] 70
Swiss Singles Chart[11] 10

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Germany (BVMI)[12] Gold 250,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

Notes

  1. ^ "Official Charts: Paul McCartney". The Official UK Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/paul%20mccartney/. Retrieved 2011-10-13. 
  2. ^ "Paul McCartney Charts and Awards". allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-mccartney-p4865/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-10-13. 
  3. ^ Blaney 2007, p. 212.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Hope of Deliverance", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  5. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1993" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201993.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2010. 
  6. ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  7. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  8. ^ "Paul McCartney Japanese Singles Chart listings". Original Confidence. http://homepage1.nifty.com/tuty/after_beatles_paul_singlechartaction_japan.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 
  9. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  10. ^ a b Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  11. ^ 1993 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved August 8, 2008)
  12. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Paul McCartney; 'Hope of Deliverance')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Hope+of+Deliverance&strInterpret=Paul+McCartney&strTtArt=single&strAwards=checked. 

References

Paul McCartney
Studio albums
With Linda McCartney
With Wings
With The Fireman
Live albums
Compilations
Experimental albums
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Tours
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Paul McCartney singles discography
1970s
1971: "Another Day" / "Oh Woman, Oh Why" · "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" / "Too Many People" · "The Back Seat of My Car" / "Heart of the Country" · "Eat at Home" / "Smile Away"
1972: "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" · "Mary Had a Little Lamb" / "Little Woman Love" · "Hi, Hi, Hi" / "C Moon"
1973: "My Love" · "Live and Let Die" / "I Lie Around" · "Helen Wheels" / "Country Dreamer" · "Jet" · "Jet" / "Let Me Roll It" · "Mrs Vandebilt" / "Bluebird"
1974: "Band on the Run" · "Zoo Gang" · "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" · "Junior's Farm" / "Sally G"
1975: "Listen to What the Man Said" · "Letting Go" / "You Gave Me the Answer" · "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" / "Magneto and Titanium Man"
1976: "Silly Love Songs" · "Let 'Em In" / "Beware My Love"
1977: "Maybe I'm Amazed" (live) / "Soily" (live) · "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School"
1978: "With a Little Luck" · "I've Had Enough" · "London Town"
1979: "Goodnight Tonight" / "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" · "Old Siam, Sir" · "Getting Closer" · "Getting Closer" · "Arrow Through Me" / "Old Siam, Sir" · "Wonderful Christmastime"
1980s
1990s
1990: "Put It There" / "Mama's Little Girl" · "Birthday" (live) / "Good Day Sunshine" (live) · "All My Trials" (live) / "C Moon" (live)
1993: "Hope of Deliverance" · "C'Mon People" · "Off the Ground"
1997: "Young Boy" · "The World Tonight" · "Beautiful Night"
1999: "No Other Baby" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
2000s
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