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1. PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS BAND ON THE RUN RAR MOVIE
2. PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS BAND ON THE RUN RAR FULL

“Band On The Run” doesn’t have a clear plotline, but it’s a story about a musical group escaping from jail. It’s certainly indulgent: a three-part suite of unfinished ideas, only vaguely connected by McCartney’s own sense that he was being persecuted. After Band On The Run, nobody could accuse McCartney of being a lightweight. Band On The Run, the resulting album, is easily the best non-Beatles thing McCartney has ever done, and its title track might be a best-case scenario for what can happen when you push big stars out of their comfort zones. And yet McCartney and Wings used that pressure. (McCartney and Kuti ended up becoming friends, which is fun to think about.)Īnyway: not the ideal conditions for a pampered rock star to make something great.

PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS BAND ON THE RUN RAR FULL

(This would’ve been a good idea! An album full of Paul McCartney biting Fela Kuti could’ve been awesome.) Kuti confronted McCartney at the studio, and McCartney had to play him the new Wings songs just to reassure him that they didn’t sound even remotely Afrobeat-esque. And then there was the run-in with Afrobeat god Fela Kuti, who assumed that the band was in Nigeria to steal his ideas. They were robbed at knifepoint, relieved of a bag that included a notebook full of song ideas and a few demo tapes, including the original “Band On The Run” demo. One night, Paul and Linda McCartney ignored locals’ advice and went out walking by themselves. And rather than relaxing in finery, McCartney had to make do with a studio that only had one eight-track recorder. Instead, it was a country recovering from a civil war and controlled by a military junta. Nigeria was not the tropical paradise that McCartney had envisioned. Now, suddenly, he was a lightweight hack whose band had three members instead of five, and he still had to make this damn album. They’d made hits, but critics had generally come to regard McCartney as a lightweight hack, at least compared to his ex-bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison. At the time, Wings weren’t a hugely successful enterprise. And the night before the band left for Nigeria, drummer Danny Seiwell left the band, as well. During a rehearsal on McCartney’s Scottish farm a week before recording started, McCartney got into an argument with guitarist Henry McCullough, and McCullough quit on the spot. He figured it would be a breezy, pleasant experience. EMI, McCartney’s label, had a studio in the Nigerian city of Lagos, and that seemed nice enough to McCartney.

PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS BAND ON THE RUN RAR MOVIE

That way, they could work and be tourists at the same time - the same reason every movie filmed in Hawaii has a better cast than it probably should. Paul McCartney wanted to take his band someplace sunny and exotic to record a new album. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.