Artist: Paul McCartney and Wings Genre(s):
Pop
Rock
Discography:
Band On The Run Cd 1 Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Band On The Run 25th Anniversary Edition (Disc 2) Year: 1993
Tracks: 21
Venus And Mars Year: 1975
Tracks: 12
Band On The Run Year: 1973
Tracks: 10
Following his moment solo album,
Ram, in 1971, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, formed Wings, which was intended to be a fully fledged recording and touring band. Denny Laine, a one-time guitar player for the Moody Blues, and drummer Denny Seiwell filled out the lineup and Wings released their first base album,
Wild Life, in December 1971.
Wild Life was greeted with poor reviews and was a congener dud. McCartney and Wings, which now featured one-time Grease Band guitar player Henry McCullough, spent 1972 as a operative band, cathartic triplet singles -- the protestation tune "Give Ireland Back to the Irish," the reggae-fied "Virgin Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the hard-rocking "Hi Hi Hi" -- in England.
Red ink Rose Speedway followed in the leaping of 1973, and while it standard sapless reviews, it became his second American number nonpareil album. Later in 1973, Wings embarked on their low British hitch, at the determination of which McCullough and Seiwell left hand the isthmus. Prior to their exit, McCartney's idea to the James Bond moving picture
Live and Let Die became a Top Ten strike in the U.S. and U.K. That summer, the remaining Wings proceeded to record a new album in Nigeria. Released late in 1973,
Isthmus on the Run was McCartney's best-reviewed album to appointment and his most successful, outlay little Joe weeks at the top of the U.S. charts and eventually going triplet atomic number 78.
Following the success of
Striation on the Run, McCartney formed a new version of Wings with guitar player Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton. The young card was showcased on the 1974 British single "Junior's Farm" and the 1975 strike album
Venus and Mars.
Wings at the Speed of Sound followed in 1976, and it was the low Wings record to feature songwriting contributions by the other bandmembers. The album became a giant success on the ground of deuce McCartney songs, "Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'Em In." Wings supported the album with their first international hitch, which skint many attendance records and was captured on the live triplet album
Wings Over America (1976). After the hitch was completed, Wings rested a snatch during 1977, as McCartney released an instrumental adaptation of
Random access memory under the nominate Thrillington and produced Laine's solo album,
Holly Days. Later that year, Wings released "Mull of Kintyre," which became the biggest-selling British single of all time (at the time of its release), marketing over iI million copies. In 1978 Wings followed "Mull of Kintyre" with
Jack London Town, which became some other pt book. After its tone ending, McCulloch left hand the isthmus to get together the re-formed Small Faces, and Wings released
Back to the Egg in 1979. Though the record went pt, it failed to produce whatsoever big hits. Early in 1980, McCartney was arrested for ganja possession at the beginning of a Japanese hitch; he was captive for 10 years and then released, without whatsoever charges being pressed. Wings embarked on a British hitch in the spring of 1980 earlier McCartney recorded
Paul McCartney II, which was a one-man-band cause like his solo debut. The following year, Laine left hand Wings because McCartney didn't want to duty tour in the wake of John Lennon's assassination; in doing so, he efficaciously bust up Wings, which quietly disbanded as McCartney entered the studio later that yr with Beatles producer George Martin to make his 1982 album
Tug of War.
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