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Band On The Run - 50th Anniversary Edition

    Vinyl Description:
    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Band On The Run, this special vinyl edition was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes from 1973 by Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, London. This tracklist mirrors the US release which includes the song “Helen Wheels”. Includes reproduction of Linda McCartney Polaroid poster. Features an Obi strip.

    CD Description:
    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Band On The Run, this special 2CD edition features the original album and a second disc of previously unreleased “underdubbed” mixes of the songs. CD1 mirrors the US release which includes the song “Helen Wheels”. The set also includes a double-sided fold-out Polaroid poster taken by Linda McCartney.

    TRACK LISTING

    1LP: 
    Band On The Run (Side A)
    Jet (Side A)
    Bluebird (Side A)
    Mrs. Vandebilt (Side A)
    Let Me Roll It (Side A)
    Mamunia (Side B)
    No Words (Side B)
    Helen Wheels (Side B)
    Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me) (Side B)
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five (Side B)

    2CD:
    Disc 1 - Band On The Run
    Band On The Run
    Jet
    Bluebird
    Mrs. Vandebilt
    Let Me Roll It
    Mamunia
    No Words
    Helen Wheels
    Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five

    Disc 2 - Band On The Run (Underdubbed Mixes)
    Band On The Run
    Mamunia
    No Words
    Jet
    Bluebird
    Mrs. Vandebilt
    Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
    Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)
    Let Me Roll It

    Lesley-Ann Jones

    Fly Away Paul : The Extraordinary Story Of How Paul McCartney Survived The Beatles And Found His Wings

      the remarkable account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings and ascent into solo stardom, by renowned music biographer Lesley-Ann JonesNo comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published, until now. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.

      Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings - at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.

      Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research, the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney's career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.

      Paul McCartney & Wings

      Wild Life (Half Speed Master)

        Following the eclectic charm and intimacy of 1970's solo McCartney and 1971's homespun lo-fi indie-pop progenitor RAM credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, Wild Life found Paul once again redefining his post-Beatles creative identity, this time beginning his tenure as a founding member of Wings. A rollicking left turn from its predecessors, Wild Life was recorded in barely more than a week, with more than half of the songs captured in a single take. The end result would be eight songs running the gamut from joyous freewheeling jams to proto-chamber pop to spare introspective musings — all bristling with a raw, jagged energy akin to the grungiest of garage bands—whether on the careening blues-rock rave-up of opener "Mumbo," a reggae-tinged reimagining of Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," or the plaintive and heart wrenching ballad "Dear Friend."

        Cracking the top 10 and going gold in the US, Wild Life faced an admittedly uphill battle as the debut of Paul's first post-Beatles band. In a recent reassessment, Billboard noted that modern-day Wild Life listeners "can throw out all this cultural baggage and just enjoy the tunes… by not reaching for any obvious Beatles tropes, Wings achieved something fresh and inviting…" And in fact, Wild Life would prove to be the first spark of the Wings phenomenon that would develop and flourish into one of the defining sounds of '70s rock n roll. The streak of #1 albums from Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, At The Speed Of Sound through the 3LP live opus Wings Over America, and the sold-out shows that provided the blueprint for the '70s arena rock experience—can all be traced back to the big bang of those first eight months during which Wings would form, release Wild Life in December 1971 and play their first-ever live shows in February 1972.


        TRACK LISTING

        Side A

        Mumbo
        Bip Bop
        Love Is Strange
        Wild Life

        Side B

        Some People Never Know
        I Am Your Singer
        Tomorrow
        Dear Friend


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