We have obtained deep imaging data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) which we use to determine the cluster mass directly using weak gravitational lensing. The CCCP remedies this problem using a sample of 50 massive X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. Previous studies were hampered by inhomogeneous data sets and small samples. In releasing this record exclusively in the Soviet Union, I extend the hand of peace and friendship to the people of Russia.The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project (CCCP) is a study of a large sample of X-ray selected clusters with the aim of examining the relationship between baryonic tracers of cluster mass and to probe the cluster-to-cluster variation in the thermal properties of the hot intracluster medium (ICM). “He said to me, ‘Yes, people everywhere want peace – it’s usually politicians that cause trouble.’ It always seemed to me that the way The Beatles’ music was admired in the USSR tended to prove his point, that people the world over have a great deal in common. “When I was very young I asked my dad if people wanted peace,” Paul explained at the time.

For Paul, it was a deeply personal album and a way to acknowledge fans who had supported him and The Beatles since the start. The recording sessions produced 22 songs in total, 13 of them ending up on the final album, with one of the songs left off being a cover of The Beatles’ ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. (It was released in the rest of the world following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.) Ruminating on the next stage of his career following 1986’s Press To Play, Paul decided he wanted to get back to his roots, so hired three session musicians and spent just two days covering his favourite hits from the 1950s. Choba B CCCP, the Russian translation of “Back In The USSR”, was released in the Soviet Union in 1988, making Paul the first artist from the West to issue an album exclusively for that market.

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