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

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, Her Majesty's Guards were changing patrols with military precision in front of Buckingham Palace and Paul McCartney's Rolls-Royce convertible was about to be towed.

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