22-07-2021, 20:41
![[Image: 220px-Paul_McCartney_%26_Wings-Band_on_t..._cover.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Paul_McCartney_%26_Wings-Band_on_the_Run_album_cover.jpg/220px-Paul_McCartney_%26_Wings-Band_on_the_Run_album_cover.jpg)
PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS "band on the run" cd/vinyl 1973
a revisit...
his fifth post Beatle album, his most famous and biggest selling also with some 13 million copies sold...
yet it is the third highest selling solo album by an ex-Beatles...
pipped into the #2 position by John's "double fantasy" and around half the sales of George's "all things must pass"...
anyway back to the album...
a real trying time making this one...
the studio was still under construction in Lagos, it was also the monsoon season, Paul was robbed at knife point of his original master tapes and twomembers of the band (Denny Seiwell, Henry McCullough) quit the band on the eve of leaving London for Lagos...
just a top class effort of an album on every level IMO...
"mamunia" is probably a bit weak but the rest of the album is exceptional...
not my favourite 'go to' album but certainly his best and most known solo release...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
always loved this live version of this track from around 2010:
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.