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Former Paul McCartney and Wings guitarist/vocalist Denny Laine performs 1973 album Band On The Run in its entirety. The third track Bluebird is followed by Mrs. Vandebilt (lead vocals by John Wicks of The Records) and Let Me Roll It at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA on March 20, 2016. Band On The Run became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia. The album remains McCartney's most successful and the most celebrated of his post-Beatles works. Paul McCartney includes Let Me Roll It on his 2016 One On One Tour. Watch McCartney Fresno concert on Cal Vid Playlist. --- In a wide-ranging new interview with the BBC, Paul McCartney looked back on the post-Beatles depression that led to him forming Wings — and offered a candid assessment of the group’s skill level when they came together. “I was depressed. You would be. You were breaking from your lifelong friends,” said McCartney (via the Guardian). That depression, he admitted, led to a period of heavy drinking. “It was great at first, then suddenly I wasn’t having a good time,” he recalled. “I wanted to get back to square one, so I ended up forming Wings.” That “square one,” in McCartney’s eyes, meant avoiding the opportunity to enlist big-name musicians. Wanting to feel like part of a real band again, he sought out less established players — perhaps to a fault. “We were terrible. We knew Linda couldn’t play, but she learned, and looking back on it, I’m really glad we did it,” he said. “I could have just formed a supergroup, and rung up Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page and John Bonham.” McCartney’s memories, as it turns out, also extend to the reviews he’s received over the years — particularly the bad ones. “You still remember the names of the people who gave you really bad, vicious reviews,” he said, half-jokingly singling out longtime NME writer Charles Shaar Murray — who described Wings’ 1975 effort Venus and Mars as “terrible” and “one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard from a so-called ‘major artist'” — as someone who “shall ever be hated.” Read More: Paul McCartney Looks Back on Forming Wings: 'We Were Terrible' |
