They’d been working on it with acoustic guitars and so when the rest of us came to hear it there was this wall of guitars. Paul Wix Wickens: Hope Of Deliverance was a track that Paul and Robbie got together, really. Paul McCartney – From Club Sandwich interview I do like leaving things ambiguous – I’ve often done that in my songs, so that people say to me “I always thought it meant something else…”. So that was it really, it just became a kind of optimistic song, either to, perhaps, a girlfriend, or to a God-figure. Homelessness, disease, whatever, big or little, we’ve all got them. You know, if you’re involved in rescuing people in Somalia then that’s the deliverance – you want to get out of there safely, if you are involved in poverty then that’s your deliverance, to get out of that trap. So that led me into the field of hope, of deliverance, and then I added about the darkness that surrounds us. On a 12-string it makes for a very jingly sound, which reminds me of Cathedrals and Christmas. So I went up into the attic and took with me a Martin 12-string guitar and, just for a bit of fun, I put a capo on it – the little bar that comes half way up the strings and changes the length of the guitar neck. There’s a trap door, you go up a little ladder and then close it and no one can get at you, so then you know you’ve got a couple of hours to yourself. I went up into the attic of our house, just to get away from everyone. During the Out There Tour, McCartney performed “ Hope of Deliverance” with all musicians in his band playing guitar, including the tour opener in Belo Horizonte. It was in hiatus until McCartney performed it again in Bogotá, Colombia on 19 April 2012 during his On the Run Tour-the first time performing a song from Off the Ground with his 2012 lineup. The song was featured in the set list of 1993’s The New World Tour.
The song went on to become the 11th biggest worldwide hit of 1993. Remix versions were released on 15 January 1993, and picked up massive airplay in clubs.It was number one on European top 20 “3”. It also did very well in Germany, reaching number 3 there, and is still gaining a lot of airplay in Central and Eastern European radios as well as in South America.
It did not fare well on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 83, but did better on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, hitting number 9. It became a hit in his native UK, reaching number 18. “ Hope of Deliverance” is a song from 1993 album Off the Ground, released as a single in anticipation of the album in December 1992.
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