Wings: Wild Life
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 20 January 1972
LIKE PAUL MCCARTNEY'S first two post-Beatles albums, Wild Life is largely high on sentiment but rather flaccid musically and impotent lyrically, trivial and unaffecting.
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