Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney & Wings

Wings Over America - Paul McCartney and Wings

Wings 1976 tour was a massive success. Paul McCartney was finally being plaudited as a valid, credible performer in his own right, who was not riding on the coat tails of his success with his erstwhile band The Beatles. Nor was he trying to ignore the fact he had been one quarter of the most successful, and arguably important, band in history. Wings had many different line-ups but I think this one (the one which went out on the road in 1976) was the best of them all. They had worked their way up, playing at colleges and universities, as if starting from scratch which is what McCartney clearly wanted to do. The audio quality of this is not great, to be honest. The ...

Wings Over America - Paul McCartney and Wings

formerly of the Moody Blues and Go Now, was an early recruit, but no one else looked likely to stay the course, and Macca even agreed to use the term Paul McCartney and ... to let you know exactly who we were dealing about, as if you didn't know. It was the trio who recorded the sublime Band On The Run album in 1973, but eventually McCartney achieved his aim when he managed to secure the employment of guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Joe English, who helped out on the promising Wings At The Speed Of Sound album. A couple of years later, McCartney was comfortable enough with this new band and the catalogue of material that his Wings project had built up to ...

Band On The Run: 25th Anniversary Edition - Paul McCartney & ...

favourite of mine, and the special edition, with its interview disk (released earlier this year) proves just how difficult it was to make. The result is some of McCartney's finest work, from the eclectic title track through the hectic 'Jet' and the comedy of 'Mrs. Vandebilt', to the pure rock of ...