7. Maybe I’m Amazed (Live)
Wings Over America is the band’s peak, and arguably finds #PaulMcCartney at his zenith. This is his best post-Beatles song, and became his signature as much as Yesterday. This live performance is so good that it was issued as a single.
Wings Over America is the band’s peak, and arguably finds #PaulMcCartney at his zenith. This is his best post-Beatles song, and became his signature as much as Yesterday. This live performance is so good that it was issued as a single.
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A Sunday triple bonus! From that middle-period Wings when every album had a song starting with 'Let', and they're all bangers. The absence of a 'Let' song from 'Back to the Egg' is likely a major reason why Wings failed to last into the eighties.
This is just lovely. Mellow and touching, especially given the presence of James on guitar and, for the last time, Linda's backing vocals.
Only #PaulMcCartney could write a protest song about Bloody Sunday including the line "Great Britain, you are tremendous!" Still, it did get banned by the BBC. The live versions have a certain "pub closing time" charm.
Another highlight of 'Tug of War', I love that Paul does his Noel Coward/Admiral Halsey voice again. Oasis based their entire career on the opening bars.
Another one I'd somehow not really heard much. I probably assumed it was one of Paul's Scottish farmyard ditties rather than a stomping rocker.
As with a lot of Wings, this sounds even better live than the original studio recording, and this One Hand Clapping version is a riot!
The seed from which #McCartney III grew. Recorded in 1992, about 1970, and finished in 2020 just as the world went into lockdown. It's a simple but beautiful melody, and an elegy for simplicity and normality in a frightening and uncertain world. A gift.