Why Paul McCartney Rejected a Legendary Drummer for Being Too Good for Wings

When Wings began to take flight from the ashes of The Beatles' demise in the early 1970s, Paul McCartney was tasked with ...
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Paul McCartney's Only Country Chart Hit Came After One Night in Nashville

After the departures of guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell, Wings welcomed Jimmy McCulloch and Geoff ...
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Paul McCartney and Wings’ Guitarist Denny Laine Compared ‘Band on the Run’ to ‘Being a Gambler’

Wings were riding a series of success with their first two albums. However, for their third album, McCartney wanted to try something different by recording it in a foreign location. In an interview ...
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Paul McCartney and Wings’ “Band on the Run” underdubbed mix is stupendous in its unvarnished power

The “underdubbed” mixes for Paul McCartney and Wings’ landmark "Band on the Run" album are, in a word, stupendous. Released to mark the LP’s 50th anniversary, the mixes make for some of the more ...
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Paul McCartney & Wings to Release 'Band on the Run' 50th Anniversary Edition Featuring Previously Unreleased 'Underdubbed' Mixes Album

A fixture of all-time greatest album lists for decades, the multiple GRAMMY-winning #1 smash was originally released in December of 1973. Featuring the immortal title track, worldwide hit ‘Jet,'' the ...
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The Film That Reminds Paul McCartney of the Concept Behind ‘Band on the Run’

In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that the concept of his song, “Band on the Run,” and its album remind him of a particular classic film and even a children’s cartoon. “Certain aspects of ...