Some elpees included a Wings Over America poster. Released on elpee, cassette and 8-track on Main the UK and Australia (MPL, PAS/TC-PAS 10010), the US (Capitol, SW/8XW-11525), Brazil (MPL, MPL-1002), Japan (Capitol, EPS-80510) and Venezuela (EMI, YEX-953) with picture innersleeve reached #1 on the US charts and #2 on the UK charts. The PicturesĬover photo by Linda McCartney. Produced by Paul McCartney engineered by Pete Henderson. Joe English (drums, lead vocal on B4), Denny Laine (guitar, lead vocals on A2/B3), Linda McCartney (keyboards, vocals, lead vocal on B2), Paul McCartney (bass, vocals), Jimmy McCulloch (guitar, lead vocal on A5) with Howie Casey (horns), Tony Dorsey (horns), Steve Howard (horns), Thaddeus Richard (horns). Warm And Beautiful (instrumental demo) The Players Must Do Something About It (Paul’s version)ī7. Wino Junko (Jimmy McCulloch/Colin Allen)Īll songs written by Paul McCartney unless noted.ī5. Following the Wings Over America tour, this version of the group split up, and Wings was back to being a trio, at least until Back to the Egg. Turns out, like a certain Caribou, that the hits were the meat of the matter, and everything around them was filler. When the record was released, “Let ‘Em In” and “Silly Love Songs” had a stranglehold on the radio, which was enough to vaunt this to the top of my Christmas list that year (and you can imagine my delight at seeing this and Band on the Run side by side under the tree). (Insert Yoko Ono joke here.) The record ends with a creaky piano ballad from Paul, “Warm And Beautiful,” that sounds only marginally better than John Lennon’s homemade tape of “Grow Old With Me.” Linda, unfortunately, is given the outmoded (in sound and sentiment) “Cook of the House” and the worse half of “Beware My Love” to sing. But the recurring reference point for me is the weaker side of Venus and Mars, such as “Medicine Jar” and “Spirits of Ancient Egypt.” The idea of giving drummer Joe English something to sing is cute-he has a better voice than Ringo at any rate-and Jimmy McCulloch proves a fair match for Laine as a singer and songwriter. You can even draw a line from some of this to such classics as Band on the Run (compare “San Ferry Anne” to “Mamunia”) and Abbey Road (“The Note You Never Wrote” sounds a lot like “You Never Give Me Your Money”). That’s not to say the material is far removed from what came before ( Venus and Mars) and after ( London Town). There’s little debate that the best moments on here occur when Paul is front and center: “Let ‘Em In,” “Silly Love Songs,” the second half of “Beware My Love.” The rest of the record is uneven, by turns sleepy and clever, more or less what you could expect from 10cc at this stage. Paul sought to change that perception by balancing the band’s contributions on Wings at the Speed of Sound, only it backfired. Kronomyth 7.0: I’m just a singer in a rock ‘n’ roll band.įor better or worse, Wings was Paul McCartney’s backing band. Paul pulls a page from Elton John by releasing a mediocre album with two great songs on it.
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