Paul McCartney, Wings - Band on the Run (Archive Collection)
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Artist: Paul McCartney, WingsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
Published: 2010
CD Release Date: 2010-11-02
Music Label: HEAR MUSIC
Product features:
- Paul Mccartney - Band On The Run
- Band on the Run
- Jet
- Bluebird
- Mrs Vandebilt
- Let Me Roll It
- Mamunia
- No Words
- Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
- Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
Music reviews of Band on the Run (Archive Collection)
Music Review: A Great for the Great
Rating: 5 Stars
I for one think the new Archive Collection for Sir Paul will be great. For someone like me who never had the original records or CDs and is a big fan of the Beatles and Paul, this was a great investment. So I am eagerly awaiting the next releases.
Now for a review of the package: I just got the single CD so I don't own the extras and everything but I still enjoy it. The packaging for this is a digipack which opens like a gatefold from an old record. Then there on the left is a small booklet with pictures of Wings recording the album and lyrics to all of the songs. To the right of the gatefold is the CD in a thick paper sleeve in which the CD is encased. My only problem is that almost the whole CD is exposed by big hole which shows all the CD artwork. But other than that the packaging is great.
Now onto the material: Now the track listing on this album is from the U.K. release so the song Helen Wheels is missing. Losing that song is a loss but the other 9 songs are great. This album has great songs but a few fillers like No Words and Mamunia which I skip quite a bit. But then there is goods songs like Picasoo's Last Words and Bluebird, then the great songs like Mrs. Vanderbilt and Let Me Roll It, To the classics like Band On The Run, Jet, and my personal favorite Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five. Since this is a remaster the sound is supposed to be better. I wouldn't know if the sound is improvered or not but it sounds pretty good to me.
Overall this is a classic album. A great from the great
Description of Band on the Run (Archive Collection)
**STANDARD EDITION: Digitally remastered, essential 9-track single disc**MPL and the Concord Music Group are pleased to announce the re-release of Paul McCartney & Wings' iconic Band on the Run on November 2nd, 2010. Heralded as one of the greatest albums of all time, the GRAMMY winning, smash # 1 album - originally released December of 1973 - yielded the immortal title track and world-wide hit "Jet" becoming Wings' most successful and celebrated album ever.
Paul McCartney personally supervised all aspects of the Band on the Run reissue. The remastering work was done at Abbey Road using the same team who recently remastered the complete Beatles' catalog.
Band on the Run will be available in a variety of formats originating with the single disc digitally remastered, essential 9-track STANDARD EDITION. The 3 disc (2CD, 1 DVD) SPECIAL EDITION features nine bonus audio tracks (including the top 10 smash "Helen Wheels"), rare footage of the McCartneys in Lagos and behind-the-scenes at the famous album cover shoot, original Band on the Run promotional video clips, the One Hand Clapping television special (highlighted by studio performances filmed at Abbey Road in 1974) all with beautifully enhanced packaging. Collectors will be especially thrilled by the 4 disc (3CD, 1 DVD) DELUXE EDITION which adds an extraordinary 120-page hard bound book containing many unseen and unpublished photos by Linda McCartney and Clive Arrowsmith, album and single artwork, downloadable hi-res audio versions of the remastered album and bonus audio tracks, a full history of the album complete with a new interview with Paul and expanded track by track information for all four discs. The deluxe edition also includes a special Band on the Run audio documentary (originally produced for the 25th Anniversary edition.) The original remastered album and bonus audio content will also be issued in a 2 disc 180gm audiophile VINYL EDITION that comes with an MP3 download of all 18 tracks.
The musical achievement of Band on the Run is nearly matched by the amazing story behind its creation. Intrigued with recording abroad in the summer of 1973, McCartney searched for a list of studios around the world. Spotting one in the remote location of Lagos, Nigeria, he became enthralled with the idea of recording in Africa. Days before departure, lead guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the band leaving the entire project to the three core members, Paul, his wife Linda McCartney and band-member Denny Laine (along with recording engineer Geoff Emerick). 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. The thieves made off with the demo tapes (among other valuables), forcing the band to record the entire album from memory.
Band on the Run triumphed both critically and commercially. The album topped the US album chart 3 separate times, won a Grammy and went on to sell more than 7 million copies. Upon the release of Band on the Run, then Rolling Stone reviewer Jon Landau famously gushed, "The finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles."
Paul is currently playing five songs from the album on his `Up and Coming Tour'. Live favorites over the last 8 years of touring have included "Jet", "Band on the Run" and "Let Me Roll It". In 2008 when Paul played a free outdoor show to over 500,000 people in Kiev, a Ukrainian poll listed "Mrs Vandebilt" as their all time favorite Paul McCartney song. It's been included in the set ever since. At the start of this tour Paul added "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" to the set.
Band on the Run marks the first release from the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, an ambitious reissue program that encompasses 40 years of cherished, classic material from the most successful songwriter and recording artist in music history. It's also the initial physical release of the recently announced agreement between McCartney's MPL and Concord Music Group to globally market and distribute McCartney's venerated solo and Wings catalog.
Band on the Run should have been a disaster. Two of Wings' original members quit in a huff just before its production. The whimsical decision to record in Lagos, Nigeria, became a nightmare when McCartney and company found themselves in a decaying studio, then had many of the project's demos stolen by armed bandits. Despite these hardships--perhaps because of them--Band on the Run remains the most focused and consistently satisfying record of McCartney's wildly uneven post-Beatles career.
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