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
Paul McCartney and Wings McCartney; three songs on Laine's 1980 solo album "Japanese Tears" were performed by Wings with Laine on lead vocals; Laine also contributed to several songs on Paul McCartney's 1982 and 1983 solo albums "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace", respectively. Juber's instrumental "Maisie"—which was backed by members of Wings—appeared on his solo album "Standard Time". The McCartneys and Laine contributed backing vocals to George Harrison's 1981 tribute to John Lennon, "All Those Years Ago". Linda McCartney continued to tour and record with her husband up until her death in 1998, after which a compilation of her songs entitled "Wide