Lyrics Chords Audio Track: Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five Album/CD: Band on the Run Artist: Paul McCartney & Wings Composer: Paul McCartney Track Time: 5:26 Release: 1973 Producer: Paul McCartney Engineer: Geoff Emerick Musicians: Paul McCartney: Vocal, Bass, Drums, Guitars, Keyboards Linda McCartney: Backing vocal Denny Laine: Guitars, Backing vocal You see, with a lot of songs I do, the first line is it. It's all in the first line, and then you have to go on and write the second line. With 'Eleanor Rigby' I had 'picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has been. that was the one big line that started me off on it. With this one it was 'No one ever left alive in nineteen hundred and eighty-five.' That all I had of that song for months. 'No one left alive in nineteen hundred and eighty ... six?' It wouldn't have worked!" (Paul McCartney)