Band On The Run

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In 2000, Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". After completing a successful UK tour with his band Wings, in July 1973, [9] he planned their third album as a means to re-establish himself after the mixed reception given to Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway.

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Gotta give this its due: this is the apex of Paul's Wings sound, and it's pretty amazing that he was able to pull this off under the circumstances. The album topped the Billboard chart on three separate occasions during 1974, [60] and was the top selling album of that year in Australia [74] and Canada. For commercial reasons, Capitol Records, the US distributor for Apple Records, asked to include "Helen Wheels" on the album. The album topped the US album chart 3 separate times, won a Grammy and went on to sell more than 7 million copies.Another incident was the confrontation with local Afrobeat pioneer and political activist Fela Kuti, who publicly accused the band of being in Africa to exploit and steal African music after their visit to his club. Band on the Run, however, is probably the best reflection of his post-Beatles material in that the music is usually inescapably catchy and the lyrics are, well, just words that rhyme for some reason or another. November 2010 - Fourth week in the chart in this run sees BOTR climb again just one place to number 70.

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AFTER any further re-issues following, will be the FULL DETAILS of Disc 2 and Booklet notes from this 25th Anniversary edition. After hosting a beach barbecue to celebrate the end of recording, [23] Wings flew back to England on 23 September 1973 [26] where they were met by fans and journalists. Five or ten more minutes spent on lyrics would have been a wise investment: "I want to tell you, and now's the time.I mean "Jet" is iconic, "Band on the Run" is pretty fun and "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" has that awesome groove. The band would be driven to the studio in the early afternoon where recording would last into the late evening and sometimes early morning.

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Denny Laine, and John Conteh (the boxer from Liverpool who went on to become World Light-Heavyweight champion). A 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition which has the aforementioned material as well as an audio documentary originally produced for the album's 25th anniversary release. Christgau ultimately awarded the album a C+ rating, indicating "a not disreputable performance, most likely a failed experiment or a pleasant piece of hackwork". But then, several days later, conversation inevitably got around to music and he mentioned in passing in front of the others that actually the album wasn't half bad.Some of the styles are blended so well; hard rock, pop, mellow acoustic, african, Parisian, among others, make the record very diverse.

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the slow songs are never less than unbearably saccarine, the rockers make late-period status quo seem like hawkwind. Writing for Mojo magazine in 2011, John Harris included Band on the Run among "the trilogy of truly essential post-Beatles solo albums", along with Harrison's All Things Must Pass and Lennon's Plastic Ono Band. Recorded in August and September of 1973 (with further work done at AIR Studios in London in October 1973), they persevered through a tumultuous, yet creatively invigorating 2 month recording process battling difficult studio conditions, oppressive heat and a dangerous mugging at knife point. During that time, its chart performance similarly reflected the popularity of the two singles, with the album spending three weeks at number 2 in April, and six weeks at number 1 throughout August and the first week of September.That was a hammer-blow to my confidence and I thought I was destined to be the loner nerd for the rest of my schooldays. In fact this was the album that lead me to re-evaluate and ultimately appreciate The Beatles who, quite frankly, to people my age, were irrelevant.