Walter Yetnikoff ex-Beatle's North American releases on CBS, which had a pressing plant, distribution network, and office, in McCartney's native England. Under Yetnikoff, in 1982, McCartney collaborated with Stevie Wonder on the number-one hit "Ebony and Ivory", included on McCartney's "Tug of War", and with Michael Jackson on "The Girl Is Mine" from "Thriller". The following year, McCartney and Jackson worked on "Say Say Say", McCartney's most recent US number one hit. Yetnikoff was also involved in Streisand's biggest selling album, "Guilty" with Barry Gibb from The Bee Gees. Yetnikoff features prominently in Frederic Dannen's landmark 1990 book "Hit Men: Power Brokers
A Toot and a Snore in '74 Harry Nilsson's latest album, "Pussy Cats", when Paul and Linda McCartney dropped in after the first night of the sessions, aka "the Jim Keltner Fan Club Hour", at Burbank Studios on 28 March 1974. They were joined by Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis, May Pang, Bobby Keys and producer Ed Freeman for an impromptu jam session. Lennon was in his "lost weekend", separated from Yoko Ono and living in Los Angeles with Pang. Although he and McCartney hadn't seen each other in three years and had lashed out at each other in the press, according to Pang they