PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS - BAND ON THE RUN - UK 1973 Vinyl Album LP (NM)
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PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS
"BAND ON THE RUN"
UK 1973 Vinyl Album LP
Band on the Run is an album by Paul McCartney & Wings, released in 1973.
It was Wings' third album. It became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums.
It was 1974's top-selling studio album in the United Kingdom and Australia, and revitalised McCartney's critical standing.
In 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 75 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2012, Band on the Run was voted 418th on
Rolling Stone magazine's revised list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as
"with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles."
It was the last McCartney album issued on the Apple Records label.
This Vinyl Album Record is in Very Good (VG+) to Near Mint (NM) condition ... gorgeous play. Label is in Mint condition with no stickers, writing or any unusual wear to the labels... (see photo). Album Cover & Inner Record Sleeve are original and in Near Mint Condition!
The Album has been kept in protective Clear Plastic Album Cover,
hence the immaculate condition of the Album, and will be mailed with the Plastic Cover.
"THE VINYL IS IN VERY GOOD (VG+) CONDITION"
Good Luck finding another copy of this Vinyl Record Album in this awesome condition.Recorded August–September 1973, Lagos, Nigeria. Produced by Paul McCartney and distributed by EMI Records Ltd.
APPLE RECORDS PAS 10007
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Overview
After the success of Red Rose Speedway and "Live and Let Die" - the featured song for the James Bond movie of the same name - Wings began contemplating its next album. Paul and Linda McCartney began writing new songs at their Scottish retreat soon after concluding their 1973 tour.
Bored with recording in the United Kingdom, they wanted to go to an exotic locale. After asking EMI to send him a listing of all their international recording studios, Paul happened upon Lagos in Nigeria and was instantly taken with the idea of recording in Africa.
Alongside the McCartneys, guitarist and pianist Denny Laine, lead guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell also were set to go. However, a few weeks before departing in August, McCullough quit Wings in Scotland; Seiwell followed suit the night before the 8 August 1973 departure for Nigeria. This left just the core of the band - Paul, Linda and Denny Laine - to venture to Lagos, along with former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick.
Band on the Run was issued to mostly positive reviews. The commercial reaction was slow, with the album gradually inching its way up the charts, but by the spring of 1974, bolstered by the hits "Jet" and the title track "Band on the Run", Band On The Run was a major success. It reached #1 in the US on three separate occasions, and eventually went triple platinum. In the UK, it spent seven weeks at the summit that summer, becoming the top selling British album of 1974. Its lingering success was also beneficial in allowing Wings the time to find a new guitarist and drummer, and to integrate them into the band before beginning new recordings.
In early 1975, Paul McCartney & Wings won the Grammy award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus" for Band on the Run. In 1993, Band on the Run was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series with "Helen Wheels" and its b-side "Country Dreamer" as bonus tracks. In 1999, a special 25th Anniversary Edition was released. On this version, "Helen Wheels" was track 8, between "No Words" and "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" (as it was positioned in the original US release). In May 2007, the album was made available through the iTunes Store.
The album continues to be regarded positively even if not universally regarded as substantive. The Allmusic review cites some of the songs as being excellent and the album overall as "enjoyable" while concluding that it is a "triumph of showmanship." And the Rolling Stone review of the 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition notes that "the real action still lies in the original LP's revved-up pleasures".The cover photo was taken on 28 October 1973 by photographer Clive Arrowsmith against the gable end wall of the stable block in Osterley Park, Hounslow. It depicts the now iconic view of Paul, Linda and Denny plus six other well-known people dressed as convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight. They are:
- Michael Parkinson (chat-show host and journalist)
- Kenny Lynch (actor, comedian and singer)
- James Coburn (actor)
- Clement Freud (columnist, gourmet, raconteur, Member of Parliament, Just a Minute panellist and grandson of Sigmund)
- Christopher Lee (actor)
- John Conteh (Liverpool boxer who later became World Light-Heavyweight champion)
References to the cover were to be made later by McCartney himself (in the video for "Spies Like Us", along with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd) as well as others.
Track Listings
All songs written and composed by Paul and Linda McCartney, except "No Words" by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine.
Side oneNo. Title Length
1. "Band on the Run" 5:10 2. "Jet" 4:06 3. "Bluebird" 3:22 4. "Mrs Vandebilt" 4:38 5. "Let Me Roll It" 4:47 Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Mamunia" 4:50 2. "No Words" 2:33 3. "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" 5:50 4. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" 5:27
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