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Wings: Band On The Run

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 December 1973

"IT'S NOT A concept," says Paul McCartney, but there is a thread to Wings' newie Band On The Run. The feeling expressed throughout is one ...

Wings Over America

Report by Michael Gross, Blast, August 1976

SEVENTH AVENUE looked like a refugee camp for the great unwashed. No matter where you turned, all you could see was people. ...

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Paul McCartney (1980)

Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1980

John Tobler and others ask Paul about his new solo album, McCartney II: how he played all the instruments and did all the engineering; how he came up with the songs, and chose those that ended up on the record; his surprise at 'Coming Up' being a hit; the situation with Wings, and his defense of the title 'Frozen Jap'.

File format: mp3; total file size: 27mb, total interview length: 14' 03" sound quality: ****

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Wings: Wild Life (Parlophone PCS 7142; £2.15)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 20 November 1971

TWO SIDES OF McCARTNEYS ...

Wings: Wild Life

Review by 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. ...

Beatle Wanderings: Paul On Tour; No Wingsmania Yet

Report and Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 31 August 1972

PARIS — THE last time Paul McCartney had played the Olympia was 1964. Trini Lopez was headlining; the Beatles overshadowed him. Backstage scuffles. The swarming ...

Paul McCartney: Spilling the beans...

Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 April 1973

Paul McCartney on Wings, Klein and the chances of a Beatles get-together. Andrew Tyler reports ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, June 1973

EDITOR'S NOTE: After many months of intensive negotiations with his career advisors and financial counselors, Phonograph Record Magazine is pleased to announce the acquisition of ...

McCartneys Meet Press: Starting All Over Again

Report by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 21 June 1973

OXFORD, ENGLAND — "Yes, I'm satisfied with how we are now," said Paul McCartney. "I think I'm good. I like me, I'm good. I can ...

Paul McCartney & Wings: New Theatre, Oxford

Live Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 21 June 1973

"LOOK, THERE goes someone with black hair! Is that a Wing?" asked one of the four 12-year-olds camped at the New Theatre six hours before ...

Wings: Red Rose Speedway

Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, July 1973

PAUL McCARTNEY, it seems, has never been his own man. First he was John's, now he's Linda's, and the difference shows. With John he sparked ...

Pipeline

Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, December 1973

WELL, 1973 IS gone and a new year is upon us. The only reason I mention that is because some of you are so dunced-out ...

All Paul: Paul McCartney

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 1 December 1973

WHEN THE Prime Minister, Royalty or a Rear Admiral makes a tour of inspection of a naval establishment, there is a flurry of activity among ...

Wings: Band On The Run (Apple)

Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 2 December 1973

Paul's Grooves Will Grab You ...

George Martin, Paul McCartney & Wings: Live and Let Die (soundtrack, United Artists)

Review by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 20 December 1973

'LIVE AND Let Die' is the best record Paul McCartney has made since Let It Be, although 'Maybe I'm Amazed' is an equally good composition. ...

Paul McCartney: Band On The Run/Ringo Starr: Ringo

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974

RINGO STARR is a wonderful person. His new album proves it. ...

The Rolling Stone Interview: Paul McCartney

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 31 January 1974

THIS JANUARY marks the tenth anniversary of the Beatles' appearance on the American charts. Last month Rolling Stone conducted its first full-scale interview with Paul ...

Paul McCartney: Abbey Road Revisited

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975

WINGS flew over Soho this week. But these were of musical origin and did not belong to the rather grubby pigeons that haunt London's home ...

Wings: Venus And Mars (EMI PCTC 254)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975

Wings: shooting stars! ...

Wings: Venus & Mars

Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, June 1975

FOR ALL THAT we thought we knew the Beatles, I don't think there's one of us that hasn't been surprised at the course their individual ...

Paul McCartney's verdict on the Europe debate: "One of the worst things is that miles are going to become kilometres..."

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Sounds, 7 June 1975

Quite what all that has to do with 'Venus And Mars' is not at first apparent. But stay with us, all will be revealed. ...

Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (MCA); Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol)

Review by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 1975

Two Instant Hit Packages Full of Extra Goodies ...

Wings: Venus and Mars (Capitol)

Review by Paul Nelson, The Village Voice, 30 June 1975

Venus & Mars & Rona & Barrett ...

Wings Take Off With New Member

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, July 1975

WINGS IS A VERY apt name for a group with so much jet mileage behind them. Concert appearances will take a band of this stature ...

Dawn of the Age of Venus and Mars: McCartneys, Wings Take to the Stars

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 17 July 1975

LONDON — IT WAS a brilliantly sunny day in the late spring Britons like to call summer. Secretaries were tanning themselves in St. James Park, ...

Paul McCartney: …No Not Really In A Way Actually As It Happens…

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975

VENUS AND MARS ARE LATE. The sandwiches don't care, though. Even though they're the same day's vintage – fresh, soft white bread-triangles housing excerpts from ...

Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol SMAS 11419)

Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, September 1975

McCartney: Looking Glass Hero ...

Wings: Have Guts Will Travel

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 20 December 1975

MADELINE HAS come a long way to be here in Manchester at the Midland Hotel. She has come all the way from New Jersey to ...

Paul McCartney: Pressure Cooking

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 March 1976

Paul McCartney reveals a new national achievement – the first British cooking on record! – and discusses the proposed Beatles reunion with CHRIS WELCH ...

Wings: Wings At The Speed Of Sound (Capitol)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 March 1976

PAUL McCARTNEY HAS a brilliant knack of taking an ordinary, daily statement and imbuing it with intrigue. ...

Wings: Wings At The Speed Of Sound (Parlophone)***

Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 27 March 1976

THERE'S NO other way to say it. Wings At The Speed Of Sound is a major disappointment. ...

Linda McCartney: Silly Love Songs

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 3 April 1976

ON A GREY and overcast winter afternoon, two men stand in the foyer of EMI Abbey Road Studios discussing plans for renovation. They are surrounded ...

Wings: The Band On The Road

Report by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, May 1976

THE WINGS LIVE show has been evolving over the past three years, and McCartney deliberately kept a low profile during its earliest stages, a university ...

Wings: The Spectrum, Philadelphia PA

Live Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 1 July 1976

McCartney: Rock & Roll on a Wing & a Prayer ...

Wings: The Forum, Los Angeles

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 17 July 1976

CURIOUS BUSINESS, this intercontinental jet travel. High altitude transportation appears to have a spectacularly adverse effect on Britrockers' vocal chords. Old Jagger, now: there are ...

Wings: 'She's A Good Cook, Eamon'

Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 30 October 1976

THANK YOU, AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TELL ANYONE WHO HE WAS.THE LARGE, widely spaced, easy to read letters are to be the first words ...

Wings: Wings Over America (EMI)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 18 December 1976

An exhausting triple set which had the making of an exceptional double album ...

Denny Laine: Holly Days

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 21 May 1977

THERE ARE some people who can do it, and there are others who can't. It's as simple as that. ...

The Trial of James Paul McCartney

Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 29 April 1978

IMAGINE THAT Paul McCartney didn't bury himself in hermit-like seclusion in Liverpool after the assassination attempt by Jack Ruby that followed the break-up of The ...

Wings: Taking Off At Last

Report and Interview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 16 June 1979

After a lengthy period on the ground, Paul McCartney's redesigned Wings are taking a few exploratory hops. MARK WILLIAMS' verdict: no metal fatigue. ...

Wings: Back To The Egg (Columbia)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, September 1979

FOR ME, the most pertinent phrase on Back To The Egg comes in the second half of ‘The Broadcast’, a piece near the end of ...

Paul McCartney: The Yellow Perils Of Paulie

Report by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 26 January 1980

The Nips nabbed Big Macca last week as he allegedly lugged half-a-pound of marijuana through the Japanese customs. Is the naughty 'former Beatle' set for ...

Wings: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 7 February 1980

Wings in London: Taking the spotlight off McCartney ...

Paul McCartney (1980) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1980

This is a transcript of John's audio interview with McCartney. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Paul McCartney: Once Nipped, Twice Shy

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Record Mirror, 12 July 1980

PAUL McCARTNEY tells PAUL GAMBACCINI how he avoided going to pot in a Jap jail ...

Hello, Goodbye: Henry McCullough & Wings

Interview by Colin Harper, MOJO, September 1997

Author's Note: Both Trevor Hodgett and myself wrote a fair amount about local guitar legend Henry McCullough during the '90s. Indeed, Trevor still does. When ...

Linda McCartney

Obituary by Miles, MOJO, June 1998

Rock photographer turned legendary other half ...

Paul McCartney And Wings: Band On The Run

Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, April 1999

25th anniversary 2-CD edition of 1973 classic, featuring US-related album (including 'Helen Wheels') plus audio documentary CD. ...

Wings: Band On The Run

Review by Chris Ingham, MOJO, April 1999

IN THE immediate post-Beatles period, Paul McCartney was a critic's whipping boy. Compared to the lustrous pop of Abbey Road, the open-hearted panoply of All ...

On the Wings of a Beatle

Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, 2001

"DADDY, tell us how it all began, how the walls of Pepperland crumbled, how the Blue Meanies with their lawyers and chartered accounts came and ...

Wings: Wingspan

Review by Mick Houghton, MOJO, June 2001

IT STRETCHES from his first solo recordings to 'No More Lonely Nights', off the ill-advised Give My Regards To Broad Street. An odd place to ...

The Time I Was Not Invisible In Front Of Paul McCartney

Retrospective and Interview by Steven Rosen, Player, October 2007

IN 1973, I SAW myself disappearing. I was a grammar ghost, a sentence-writing cipher with barely a byline to hang my rent on. ...

Wings Over Nashville!

Retrospective by Bill DeMain, Nashville Lifestyles, March 2008

For six weeks during the summer of 1974, Music City was home to a former Beatle. ...

Wings Over America showcases Paul McCartney and Wings at 1970s peak

Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 3 June 2013

IF YOU'RE A FIRST or second generation fan of Paul McCartney, then Wings Over America holds a special place in your record collection. The newly ...

Talking Drummer: An Interview with Remi Kabaka

Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages, July 2015

ON A SATURDAY afternoon in late May, I arrive at a large outdoor sports facility on the west side of Los Angeles.  There are several playing fields ...

Vinyl Icon: Paul McCartney & Wings' Band On The Run

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, August 2015

KNIFE-WIELDING ATTACKERS, primitive recording facilities, medical emergencies – for sheer unadulterated behind-the-scenes drama and bizarre shenanigans, no other Paul McCartney album comes even remotely close ...

"I'm actually surprised we're that well-remembered": Denny Laine on Wings

Interview by Bill DeMain, Guitar World, January 2023

1973 was the year Paul McCartney's ragtag group, Wings, first scored Beatles-sized success. As late guitarist Denny Laine recalled, they were no overnight success. ...

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