Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run [24 Karat Gold Disc, Remastered, Japan](1973)[APE]

Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run [24 Karat Gold Disc, Remastered, Japan](1973)







Country: Liverpool, England

Genre: Rock

Duration: 00:44:17 h.

Format: APE (Covers + Log + Cue)

Official Site: http://www.paulmccartney.com/







 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

 6. "Mamunia" - 4:50

 7. "No Words" - 2:33

 8. "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" - 5:50

 9. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" - 5:27

10. "Helen Wheels" (also on the original U.S. edition) - 3:34









Description:



Band on the Run is an album by Wings, released in 1973. McCartney's fifth album since the breakup of The Beatles (and Wings' third), it became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums. It was 1974's top-selling album, and revitalized McCartney's critical standing.



In 2000 Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 418 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone (issue #153) described the album as "the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles".



After the success of Red Rose Speedway and "Live And Let Die"—the new James Bond theme song—Wings began contemplating its next album. Paul and Linda McCartney, bored with recording in the UK, wanted to go to an exotic locale. After asking EMI to send him a listing of all its 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 late August, McCullough quit Wings in Scotland; Seiwell followed suit the night before the departure. This left just the core of the band—Paul, Linda and Denny Laine—to venture to Lagos, along with former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, who was needed to record the basic tracks due to the primitive state of the Lagos studios, which Wings had failed to realize prior to planning the trip.



In October, after the band's return to London, final overdubs and orchestral tracks were added and the album was finished. "Helen Wheels" was released as a non-album single at the end of the month, becoming a worldwide Top 10 by the end of the year. As Band On The Run was being prepared for release, Capitol Records, which distributed the Apple Records label in the United States, slotted "Helen Wheels" into the album—although it was never McCartney's intention to do so. Although "Helen Wheels" is not included on British versions of the Band on the Run CD (except as a bonus cut on the 1993 "The Paul McCartney Collection" edition of the CD), it has always been included on American editions of the CD (starting with the initial Columbia Records release in 1984).



Band on the Run was issued that December to glowing 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 large success. It reached #1 in the US on three separate occasions, a first, 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 locate a new guitarist and drummer, and to integrate them into the band before beginning new recordings.



In early 1975, Band on the Run won the Grammy award for "Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus."



The lead track, "Band on the Run" generally set the pace for the rest of the album. To tie back in with the album's title, the final track, "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (also known as "1985"], fades into the "Band on the Run" chorus, to close off the album.



The 8-track tape version of this album has the distinction of being one of the few 8-tracks that is arranged just like the record album. The song "Bluebird" is divided in two parts, but the rest of the songs are complete.



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)."



In May 2007, the album was made available through the iTunes Store.



LP copies came with a poster of pictures of the band.



In 2008 the song 'Band on the Run' was included in the video game 'Guitar Hero World Tour'









Line-up:



   * Paul McCartney – lead, rhythm and bass guitars, drums, piano, keyboards, percussion, vocals

   * Linda McCartney – organ, keyboards, percussion, vocals

   * Denny Laine – rhythm, lead and bass guitars, keyboards, percussion, vocals



Additional personnel:



   * Howie Casey – saxophone

   * Ginger Baker – percussion

   * Remi Kabaka – percussion

   * Tony Visconti – orchestrations

   * Ian and Trevor – backing vocals

   * Geoff Emerick – Producer and Sound Engineer







More info at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

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