One of the most profitable segments of the physical media music industry right now are the massive box sets and reissues - many of them highlighting the music of classic rock, R&B and punk artists. Music fans over 50 are the target market for these sets, in part because that is the segment of the buying public that has the most disposable income and who are most likely to spend hundreds of dollars on music they might already own.

That trend is certainly part of the reason behind an upcoming release from Paul McCartney, which packages 80 single releases personally curated by the former Beatle into a massive box set available for just over $600.

The 7" Singles Box contains 80 discs, 65 will be exact replicas of original 45s, with various international sleeves reproduced along the way; the remaining 15 consist of tracks previously released on 12", picture discs, CD singles & promos, digital downloads, music videos, two previously unheard demos, and a previously unheard 7" single edit.

The box will be limited to 3000 copies worldwide and can be pre-ordered at his official store. Each copy will come with a random test pressing of one of the discs. 

The set is scheduled to be released around December 2nd. No CD release is planned, although the set will also be available digitally.

Here is a rundown of the set's contents:

The 7" Singles Box (MPL/Capitol/UMe, 2022)

1. Another Day b/w Oh Woman, Oh Why (Sweden, 1971)
2. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (Mono) b/w Too Many People (Mono) (U.S. promo, 1971)
3. UK 3A: The Back Seat of My Car b/w Heart of the Country (U.K., 1971)
4. Love Is Strange (Single Edit) b/w I Am Your Singer (previously unreleased on 7")
5. Give Ireland Back to the Irish b/w Give Ireland Back to the Irish (Version) (U.K., 1972)
6. Mary Had a Little Lamb b/w Little Woman Love (U.K., 1972)
7. Hi, Hi, Hi b/w C Moon (Belgium, 1972)
8. My Love b/w The Mess (Live at The Hague) (Israel, 1973)
9. Live and Let Die b/w I Lie Around (Sweden, 1973)
10. Helen Wheels b/w Country Dreamer (Spain, 1973)
11. Jet b/w Let Me Roll It (Germany, 1974)
12. Band on the Run b/w Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (The Netherlands, 1974)
13. Mrs. Vandebilt b/w Bluebird (The Netherlands, 1974)
14. Junior's Farm b/w Sally G (Belgium, 1974)
15. Listen to What the Man Said b/w Love in Song (Australia, 1975)
16. Letting Go b/w You Gave Me the Answer (Germany, 1975)
17. Venus and Mars/Rock Show b/w Magneto and Titanium Man (Belgium, 1975)
18. Silly Love Songs b/w Cook of the House (France, 1976)
19. Let 'Em In b/w Beware My Love (Germany, 1976)
20. Maybe I'm Amazed (Live) b/w Soily (Live) (Japan, 1977)
21. Mull of Kintyre b/w Girls' School (U.K., 1977)
22. With a Little Luck (DJ Edit) b/w Backwards Traveller/Cuff Link (Germany, 1978)
23. I've Had Enough b/w Deliver Your Children (U.K., 1978)
24. London Town b/w I'm Carrying (The Netherlands, 1978)
25. Goodnight Tonight b/w Daytime Nightime Suffering (France, 1978)
26. Old Siam, Sir b/w Spin It On (U.K., 1979)
27. Getting Closer b/w Baby's Request (U.K. 1979)
28. Arrow Through Me b/w Old Siam, Sir (Japan, 1979)
29. Wonderful Christmastime b/w Rudolph the Red Nosed Reggae (U.K., 1979)
30. Coming Up b/w Coming Up (Live at Glasgow) / Lunch Box/Odd Sox (U.K., 1980)
31. Waterfalls b/w Check My Machine (U.K., 1980)
32. Temporary Secretary b/w Secret Friend (7" Single Edit) (previously unreleased on 7")
33. Ebony and Ivory b/w Rainclouds (U.K., 1982)
34. Take It Away b/w I'll Give You a Ring (U.K., 1982)
35. Tug of War b/w Get It (U.K., 1982)
36. Say Say Say b/w Ode to a Koala Bear (U.K., 1983)
37. Pipes of Peace b/w So Bad (U.K., 1983)
38. No More Lonely Nights (Ballad) b/w No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version) (U.K., 1984)
39. We All Stand Together b/w We All Stand Together (Humming Version) (U.K., 1984)
40. Spies Like Us b/w My Carnival (U.S., 1985)
41. Press (Video Edit) b/w It's Not True (U.S., 1986)
42. Pretty Little Head (Remix) b/w Write Away (reformatted from U.S. 12" promo, 1986)
43. Stranglehold b/w Angry (Remix) (U.S., 1986)
44. Only Love Remains b/w Tough on a Tightrope (U.K., 1986)
45. Once Upon a Long Ago b/w Back on My Feet (U.K., 1987)
46. My Brave Face b/w Flying to My Home (U.S., 1989)
47. This One b/w The First Stone (U.K., 1989)
48. Figure of Eight (7" Bob Clearmountain Mix) b/w Où Est le Soleil (Australia, 1989)
49. Party Party b/w artwork etching (U.K., 1989)
50. Put It There b/w Mama's Little Girl (U.K., 1990)
51. The Long and Winding Road b/w C Moon (Europe, 1990)
52. Birthday b/w Good Day Sunshine (U.K., 1990)
53. All My Trials b/w C Moon (U.K., 1990)
54. The World You're Coming Into / Tres Conejos b/w Save the Child / The Drinking Song (Let's Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry) (previously unreleased on 7")
55. Hope of Deliverance b/w Long Leather Coat (Europe, 1992)
56. C'mon People b/w I Can't Imagine (Germany, 1993)
57. Young Boy b/w Looking for You (reformatted from 7" picture disc, 1997)
58. The World Tonight b/w Used to Be Bad (reformatted from 7" picture disc, 1997)
59. Beautiful Night b/w Love Come Tumbling Down (reformatted from 7" picture disc, 1997)
60. No Other Baby b/w Brown Eyed Handsome Man / Fabulous (U.K., 1999)
61. From a Lover to a Friend b/w Riding into Jaipur (Europe, 2001)
62. Tropic Island Hum / We All Stand Together (Europe, 2004)
63. Fine Line b/w Growing Up Falling Down (Europe, 2005)
64. Jenny Wren b/w Summer of '59 (Europe, 2005)
65. Dance Tonight b/w Dance Tonight (Demo) (previously unreleased on 7")
66. Nod Your Head b/w 222 (previously unreleased on 7")
67. Ever Present Past b/w House of Wax (Live) (Europe, 2007)
68. Sing the Changes b/w Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight (Radio Edit) (previously unreleased on 7")
69. (I Want to) Come Home b/w (I Want to) Come Home (Demo) (previously unreleased on 7")
70. My Valentine b/w Get Yourself Another Fool (previously unreleased on 7")
71. Christmas Kisses: The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) b/w Wonderful Christmastime (U.S., 2012)
72. New b/w Early Days (previously unreleased on 7")
73. Queenie Eye b/w Save Us (previously unreleased on 7")
74. Hope for the Future b/w Hope for the Future (Thrash Mix) (previously unreleased on 7")
75. In the Blink of an Eye b/w Walking in the Park with Eloise (previously unreleased on 7")
76. I Don't Know b/w Come On to Me (global, 2018)
77. Who Cares b/w Fuh You (previously unreleased on 7")
78. Home Tonight b/w In a Hurry (global, 2019)
79. Find My Way b/w Winter Bird/When Winter Comes (previously unreleased on 7")
80. Women and Wives b/w Women and Wives (St. Vincent Remix) (previously unreleased on 7")

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"Everything I've ever wished for, I've had. And done all of it. But it has killed me"

One of my oldest friends is someone I've known since we were both standup comics back in the 1980s. We were part of a group of 6-7 people who hung out together, pushing each other to be better, spending late nights drinking coffee at Perkins and dreaming about what we'd do when we were famous. 

A couple of us ended up in the writing side of the business, with one of us a now pretty-well known showrunner. And a couple of other friends in the group have some more tangential show biz connection. But one of us became an actual star. He's very well-known, maybe best described as an "almost A-lister." He has this public persona of being a naturally funny, acerbic and confident guy. Okay, sometimes he comes off as a bit of an asshat (and I honestly say that with love). He's super talented. But he became a star when a couple of very random things broke his way. Things he had no control over and that randomness is something which weighs on him. He is a guy who outwardly appears as if he has it all. But after a couple of decades he's still wracked with self-doubt and fear.

When I heard last year that one of our group had killed himself after suffering a series of personal losses, my phone rang late one night and without looking, I knew who it was. It was my friend, grieving for our loss. But that grief was intertwined with the lamentation that has been part of his psyche since he became famous. "Why me and not X?"

Fame and success always has a cost. Sometimes it's emotional, sometimes it is the things you discard along the way. But celebrity is by its nature an artifice, and it's easy to find yourself living inside this bubble of fame and money that protects you, but also doesn't give you what you need to thrive.

That's especially the case when you're talking about someone who came into fame at an early age. None of us have any clear sense of the person we'll eventually become when we're in our teens. Going through that discovery process in public - while also wrangling with all of the career challenges - is brutal and unforgiving and even the strongest person can falter and sometimes lose their way. Doing some reporting about teen show producer Dan Schneider, I've had the chance to speak to a number of men and women who became stars in their teens. And I can't think of one who didn't battle demons along the way.

I wasn't sure what to make of Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me before I saw it. I knew that she was doing the documentary willingly, and that it was a six year project between the performer and Truth Or Dare director Alek Keshishian. He filmed the 2015 music video for Gomez's "Hands To Myself and is coincidentally her manager's brother. Based on that personal relationship and the fact Apple TV+ would provide a screener of the documentary only for purposes of a feature story and not a review made me suspect this would be another one of those tightly-controlled films that is much a brand exercise as it is look behind the curtain.

But I was so, so wrong.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me is a staggeringly intimate look at someone who is the middle of a physical and mental collapse. It begins in the midst of rehearsals for her 2016 Revival tour, which she canceled midway through due to a mental health crisis. Over the next several years, Gomez spends time in a mental health facility, deals with a flare-up of Lupus that ends up requiring her to get a kidney transplant, and on top of all of that, she's diagnosed with a bipolar-disorder diagnosis. 

When the cameras return, Gomez is battling anxiety and stage fright. She frankly seems more than a little lost and given what she's going through, I would likely feel the same way.

But as the documentary progresses, you can see Gomez slowly find her equilibrium. She travels to Kenya and volunteers at a local school. Focusing on other people, lost in the moment, you can see her soul just smile and for all of the joy in that moment, it's also so sad. Because it's clear that sometimes there just are not enough of those moments.

There is one sequence that as a journalist just made me squirm in near agony. My nightmare is asking someone a question or series of questions that are painfully uninformed or just odd and awkward. So watching a press tour journalist ask Gomez: "One DJ, one word: Marshmello," made me embarrassed for my entire profession.

Keshishian does a masterful job of stripping the glitz and celebrity from every scene Gomez is in. She trusts him enough to let the camera see her at some of the worst, rawest moments anyone can imagine. And it's even more jarring because Gomez's public persona is being someone who is cool to the point of almost being distant. She is always perfectly presented and watching her walk through a room, it's impossible to imagine her having a bad hair day much less battling demons that would crush most of us. 

In fact, that image is one of the reasons why she is so good in Hulu Only Murders In The Building. In the series, she plays someone who seems cool and detached from the world. But as the show plays out, you begin to see all of the things she hides from others and from herself. It's a character that fits the world's image of Gomez, whether or not it's truly accurate.

That dichotomy plays out on a larger scale on Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me. She wants to connect in ways that are difficult for her to manage. Especially someone who is a star of her stature. She sees herself through other people's eyes and as they see her  - this strong, talented, together woman  - and that doesn't match the way she often feels inside. There are scenes where you see her yearning for peace and happiness in a visceral way that almost physically hurts to watch. And yet, for whatever reason she decided to bare herself for the world. And it feels like the process of making the film helped solidify some things in her life.

I don't want to talk too much about specific moments that take place later in the documentary or how it wraps up. But it appears that Gomez is a better place now and on a human level, I am happy for her. 

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me is an incredibly intimate and brave film. I suspect seeing Gomez in such an unfiltered way might help some other young women battling similar self-doubts. I also suspect that might be part of the reason why Gomez decided to do the documentary. And that decision might tell you the most important thing you need to know about Selena Gomez.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me premiered Friday, November 4th, 2022 on Apple TV+





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