Press to Play is the seventh solo studio album by the English musician Paul McCartney, released on 25 August 1986. It was McCartney's first album of original songs since Pipes of Peace in 1983, and his first solo album to be issued internationally by EMI following a six-year period with Columbia Records in the United States and Canada. Keen to re-establish himself after his poorly received 1984 musical film Give My Regards to Broad Street, McCartney enlisted producer Hugh Padgham to give the album a contemporary sound.