Paul McCartney originally recorded Beautiful Night way back in 1986 but let that initial version sit in the vault until he got around to remaking it with Ringo Starr, on drums and backing vocals, in 1997. Jeff Lynne plays guitar and aids Ringo with the vocal backing, and all other instruments are played by Paul (save for the orchestrations conducted by George Martin). It was the closer on Paul’s Flaming Pie CD. The US version of the video (seen here) had to be re-edited as the very brief scene with a woman skinnydipping caused a controversy among a large part of the American audience. Other countries, as you may have guessed, made no big deal about it and it remained in it's original form when showed outside of the US The video actually made it's debut in America on the Oprah Winfrey show. The video was the last one that Linda McCartney appeared in before her death the following year. The band seen performing with Paul in the video is Spud, though they did not actually play on the track.