PAUL MCCARTNEY BAND ON THE RUN ARCHIVE

PAUL MCCARTNEY BAND ON THE RUN ARCHIVE

The album appeared again on november 1, 2010. It was again remastered in the Abbey Road Studios by the same team that also in 2009 the catalogue of The Beatles has delivered again. That new edition of Band On The Run is the first part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. Paul McCartney has signed a contract at the new Hear Music record label. The album was recorded in the capital of Nigeria, Lagos. The Band on the Run 's preparations were hit by bad luck. Just a few weeks before leaving for Lagos decided to leave to Wings guitarist Henry McCullough . One day before departure drummer Denny Seiwell followed his example. As a result, Wings existed when recording Band on the Run Paul McCartney and from a trio and Denny Laine had to virtually all instruments. Paul and Linda McCartney In Lagos were raided and robbed. Also the relationship with local artists Paul McCartney was tense at first because they thought African music would start using it. It was subsequently shown that this was not the case.īand on the Run was released in december 1973 and got very good reviews. The singles from Band on the Run were 'Jet', with b-side 'Mamunia' and the title track ' Band on the Run' with 'Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five' as the b-side. Both numbers were a hit. In England ' Band on the Run ' was the best-selling album of 1974.The magazine Q put ' Band on the Run ' at # 75 in the list of the ' 100 Greatest British Albums Ever, 'and then click' Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time' stands ' Band on the Run ' on # 418. Band on the Run is considered the best album that Paul McCartney has made after his Beatles-period. It is also often referred to as the best album that was created by one of the Beatles . So Jon Landau described the album in Rolling Stone(issue # 153) as 'the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles'. 'Band on the Run' is also one of the albums with an entry in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. 'Fittingly so, as Band on the Run also proved a critical and commercial hit, and one that stands as the singer/songwriter/bass player's finest post-Beatle hour', says Jim Harrington. Band on the Run also includes a trove of rare Wings promotional material-album covers, posters, ads, and candid photos of the band on tour.Band on the Run is an album by the British rock group Paul McCartney & Wings. McGee's tale of one of the most successful bands of the seventies-the first book to focus exclusively on Paul's post-Beatles years-tells the stories behind the #1 hits 'Listen To What the Man Said,' 'My Love,' 'Band on the Run,' 'Jet,' 'With a Little Luck,' and 'Coming Up.' McGee reveals the band's inner dynamics and its relationship with the press and public, examining Paul's determination to pursue a new sound, the criticisms Linda initially got from fans and bandmates, and the character conflicts that kept the lineup changing.Īppendices include interviews with former Wings guitarist Henry McCullough, a complete discography, a list of singles with Paul's comments on each, and rankings from the sales charts.

For ten dramatic and turbulent years, the band weathered the critics, endured pot busts, survived a harrowing recording stint in Nigeria, changed drummers constantly, and produced a great deal of remarkable music.

After the breakup of the Beatles in 1971, Paul McCartney formed Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, and American session drummer Denny Seiwell.

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