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Three bands are known to have used the name Wings, one from UK, the others from Malaysia and Finland.
1. Wings (also known as Paul McCartney & Wings) from UK. Late in 1971, drummer Denny Seiwell, and ex-Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine, joined Paul McCartney and wife Linda McCartney to record Paul McCartney’s third post-The Beatles project. The result was Wild Life, the first project to credit Wings.
In 1972, Paul McCartney returned to touring, mounting an impromptu tour of UK universities and later a tour of small European venues (with the group driving around in a van), playing no The Beatles numbers. He scored hits with the relatively light singles “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” (banned by the BBC for its political stance, and only mentioned in chart rundowns on Radio 1 as ‘a record by Wings’), “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, and “Hi Hi Hi” (again, banned by the BBC for alleged drug and sexual references).
In early 1973, Paul McCartney repeated this pattern, adding ex-Spooky Tooth guitarist Henry McCullough, and re-christening the band Paul McCartney and Wings for the album Red Rose Speedway.
Following the release of Speedway, Denny Seiwell and Henry McCullough left the band, leaving the McCartneys and Denny Laine to cut their next album at EMI’s recording studio in Lagos, Nigeria, recording what turned out to be their breakthrough album, Band on the Run.
1. Wings (also known as Paul McCartney & Wings) from UK. Late in 1971, drummer Denny Seiwell, and ex-Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine, joined Paul McCartney and wife Linda McCartney to record Paul McCartney’s third post-The Beatles project. The result was Wild Life, the first project to credit Wings.
In 1972, Paul McCartney returned to touring, mounting an impromptu tour of UK universities and later a tour of small European venues (with the group driving around in a van), playing no The Beatles numbers. He scored hits with the relatively light singles “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” (banned by the BBC for its political stance, and only mentioned in chart rundowns on Radio 1 as ‘a record by Wings’), “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, and “
Hi Hi Hi” (again, banned by the BBC for alleged drug and sexual references).In early 1973, Paul McCartney repeated this pattern, adding ex-Spooky Tooth guitarist Henry McCullough, and re-christening the band Paul McCartney and Wings for the album Red Rose Speedway.
Following the release of Speedway, Denny Seiwell and Henry McCullough left the band, leaving the McCartneys and Denny Laine to cut their next album at EMI’s recording studio in Lagos, Nigeria, recording what turned out to be their breakthrough album, Band on the Run.
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tffss wrote:
epic "Wonderful Christmastime" dub-step remix! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S383vWA7wlc&feature=colike
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Baphometrose wrote:
Finnish Wings?
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doctorjmo wrote:
love!!
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achujwie wrote:
Prefer Slayer.
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SparKua wrote:
nope
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deathinmyhands wrote:
Anybody listen finnish wings?
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Druid66 wrote:
Let me roll it!
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fuck yeah
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BLUEBIRD (L)
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Venus and Mars FTW
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<3
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MissHyperactive wrote:
Band on the run ♥
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SparKua wrote:
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Wings/+images/66120832 vote please
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Although the recent Archive release for BotR still listed it as PM&W, and I have a sneaking suspicion that so will the other Wings releases... long-after-the-fact and unfortunate revisionism if so :/
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Ah, cool--so the only albums to be officially registered under Paul McCartney & Wings are the two from 1973. Record company exec pressure that faded after BotR's success, I guess, and obviously unwanted. Incidentally, I continue to be flabbergasted every time I remember that RRS and BotR, two *perfect* albums, were released in the same damn year. (Not to mention Live and Let Die/I Lie Around and Helen Wheels/Country Dreamer!)
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yammi_50 wrote:
Wings is the correct name: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/d922d727-240a-4432-9a88-05a7cf9bc403
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Oh, and I definitely prefer to just tag it all Wings. I remember reading somewhere that Paul always wanted to have it just be Wings, as on Wild Life or At the Speed of Sound, but his record company forced him to put "Paul McCartney &" so as to make it more recognizable (I think when Wild Life didn't sell well, the execs got alarmed thinking that might be the reason). Don't know whether that's true or not, but it should be true if it isn't!
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
iter_Impius: Deliver Your Children, Mamunia, Letting Go, I Lie Around; just for starters =)
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Whiskey-Bar wrote:
Iter_Impius: Mull of Kintyre.
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