At The Speed Of Sound (Deluxe Edition) Paul McCartney & Wings

• 1Let 'Em In05:11
• 2The Note You Never Wrote04:21
• 3She's My Baby03:08
• 4Beware My Love06:28
• 5Wino Junko05:21
• 6Silly Love Songs05:54
• 7Cook Of The House02:39
• 8Time To Hide04:32
• 9Must Do Something About It03:43
• 10San Ferry Anne02:08
• 11Warm And Beautiful03:13
• 12Silly Love Songs (Demo)02:45
• 13She's My Baby (Demo)03:47
• 14Message To Joe00:24
• 15Beware My Love (John Bonham Version)05:35
• 16Must Do Something About It (Paul's Version)03:38
• 17Let 'Em In (Demo)04:18
• 18Warm And Beautiful (Instrumental Demo)01:28
• Total Runtime01:08:33

Info for At The Speed Of Sound (Deluxe Edition)

It's widely accepted that McCartney was never the serious artist that Lennon was; he never claimed to be, and more importantly (as this album bears out) never needed to be. Wings At The Speed Of Sound found McCartney and Wings at their peak.

The opener 'Let 'Em In' is almost childlike in its simplicity, and is effective precisely because of that lack of premeditation. 'Cook of the House' and 'Wino Junko' are good fun, conveying a loose sense of mirth that's both appealing and contagious. The highlight of the album is the near-manifesto 'Silly Love Songs,' in which Paul makes a case for the everlasting appeal of said compositions, and after a listen to „At The Speed Of Sound“, you can't help but see it his way.

Paul McCartney, vocals, guitars, keyboards, double bass
Linda McCartney, vocals, keyboards
Denny Laine, vocals, guitars, piano
Jimmy McCulloch, vocals, guitars
Joe English, vocals, drums
Additional musicians:
Tony Dorsey, trombone
Thaddeus Richard, saxophone, clarinet, flute
Steve Howard, trumpet, flugelhorn
Howie Casey, saxophone
George Tidwell, trumpet

Recorded from January–February 1976
Engineered by Pete Henderson, Ernie Winfrey
Produced by Paul McCartney

Digitally remastered

Paul McCartney
Following his second solo album, Ram, in 1971, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, formed Wings, which was intended to be a full-fledged recording and touring band. Denny Laine, a former guitarist for the Moody Blues, and drummer Denny Seiwell filled out the lineup and Wings released their first album, Wild Life, in December 1971. Wild Life was greeted with poor reviews and was a relative flop. McCartney and Wings, which now featured former Grease Band guitarist Henry McCullough, spent 1972 as a working band, releasing three singles — the protest tune "Give Ireland Back to the Irish," the reggae-fied "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the hard-rocking "Hi Hi Hi" — in England. Red Rose Speedway followed in the spring of 1973, and while it received weak reviews, it became his second American number one album. Later in 1973, Wings embarked on their first British tour, at the conclusion of which McCullough and Seiwell left the band. Prior to their departure, McCartney's theme to the James Bond movie Live and Let Die became a Top Ten hit in the U.S. and U.K. That summer, the remaining Wings proceeded to record a new album in Nigeria. Released late in 1973, Band on the Run was McCartney's best-reviewed album to date and his most successful, spending four weeks at the top of the U.S. charts and eventually going triple platinum.

Following the success of Band on the Run, McCartney formed a new version of Wings with guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton. The new lineup was showcased on the 1974 British single "Junior's Farm" and the 1975 hit album Venus and Mars. Wings at the Speed of Sound followed in 1976, and it was the first Wings record to feature songwriting contributions by the other bandmembers. The album became a monster success on the basis of two McCartney songs, "Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'Em In." Wings supported the album with their first international tour, which broke many attendance records and was captured on the live triple album Wings Over America (1976). After the tour was completed, Wings rested a bit during 1977, as McCartney released an instrumental version of Ram under the name Thrillington and produced Laine's solo album, Holly Days. Later that year, Wings released "Mull of Kintyre," which became the biggest-selling British single of all time (at the time of its release), selling over two million copies. In 1978 Wings followed "Mull of Kintyre" with London Town, which became another platinum record. After its release, McCulloch left the band to join the re-formed Small Faces, and Wings released Back to the Egg in 1979. Though the record went platinum, it failed to produce any big hits. Early in 1980, McCartney was arrested for marijuana possession at the beginning of a Japanese tour; he was imprisoned for ten days and then released, without any charges being pressed. Wings embarked on a British tour in the spring of 1980 before McCartney recorded McCartney II, which was a one-man-band effort like his solo debut. The following year, Laine left Wings because McCartney didn't want to tour in the wake of John Lennon's assassination; in doing so, he effectively broke up Wings, which quietly disbanded as McCartney entered the studio later that year with Beatles producer George Martin to make his 1982 album Tug of War.

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