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Watch a vintage performance of Paul McCartney and Wings playing the title track live I will make the best album I’ve ever made now.’” Try and hold your nerve, try and keep it together.’ At that moment, ‘I’ll show you. “That was like a bombshell,” the former Beatle later told Clash Music, recalling the defections. Undeterred, McCartney opted to forge ahead with the original recording plans. Wings was suddenly down to just three members: McCartney, his wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine. Tensions ensued, and just one week prior to departure, guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell resigned from the group. Enchanted by visions of sunning on the beach by day and recording by night, McCartney opted for the African locale, nestled on that continent’s west coast.īooking studio time in Lagos for September, the former Beatle first gathered his fellow Wings bandmates together for some rehearsal work in Scotland. His record company, EMI, had an international presence, with recording facilities based in Bombay, Rio de Janeiro, Peking and the Nigerian city of Lagos. The difficulties originated with McCartney’s desire to work in an exotic environment, far off the beaten path. The monumental troubles that plagued McCartney and Wings during the making of Band on the Run could easily serve as fodder for a Hollywood film epic.

Brilliant from start to finish, the album freed McCartney from the long shadow of the Beatles’ legacy, and helped give the beloved artist a new musical identity. His fifth album, Band on the Run, changed all that. Each of his four solo album, including two made with his band Wings, had featured superb moments, but none had matched the high standard set by his work with the Fab Four. Strange as it seems, as late as the summer of 1973, Paul McCartney was still trying to find his musical footing in a post-Beatles world.

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Paul’s “distinctive British sensibility now touches on things without belaboring them,” he noted. “Yet McCartney has managed to make the complexities of multi-track recording sound as natural and fresh as tomorrow.” Rolling Stone’s Jon Landau admired the lyrical sharpness of the album.

“Obviously Band On The Run is a carefully produced album,” she wrote. “Paul’s Grooves Will Grab You,” said the New York Times’ headline for Loraine Alterman’s review. Listen to the best of Paul McCartney & Wings on Apple Music and Spotify. It spent four non-consecutive weeks at the summit, and went on to amass more than two years – 116 weeks – on the bestsellers, by far the longest run of any post-Beatles McCartney recording. On April 13, with the title song newly unveiled as a single, Band On The Run took over from John Denver’s Greatest Hits as America’s favorite album. The album’s US chart debut was at a relatively lowly No.33, but it continued to build during the opening months of 1974.

The Wings LP enjoyed another ten weeks in the UK Top 10, and went on to complete an extraordinary unbroken run of almost two years on the British charts. Then Band On The Run made up for lost time with a seven-week run before it ceded the No.1 berth to the Mike Oldfield album Hergest Ridge. Released on December 5, not only did it enter at a very modest No.45 just before Christmas, it didn’t reach the summit until its 32nd week, in July 1974. You might assume that the 1973 release was an immediate UK chart-topper.