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Track Listings
| 1. Big Barn Bed |
| 2. My Love |
| 3. Get On The Right Thing |
| 4. One More Kiss |
| 5. Little Lamb Dragonfly |
| 6. Single Pigeon |
| 7. When The Night |
| 8. Loup (1st Indian On The Moon) |
| 9. Hold Me Tight |
| 10. Lazy Dynamite |
| 11. Hands Of Love |
| 12. Power Cut |
| 13. Mony Mony |
You could trawl the rock & roll archives all the way back and never find an album quite like Red Rose Speedway. Which is not to say that it's great. Just that it's weird. Though it's a Wings album, it's entirely irradiated with Paul McCartney's personality--to the extent that virtually the entire band left him while attempting to rehearse for the supporting tour, claiming they couldn't operate in his huge, overbearing shadow. You can see where they were coming from. Red Rose Speedway, right down to the cover shot of Macca with a rose in his mouth, is about Paul McCartney, specifically his unique Seventies ability to pump up slight, pretty songs to the scale of "Hey Jude", seemingly unaware or unworried that that didn't necessarily make them as good as "Hey Jude".
The high spot is the saccharine sauciness of "My Love", a lurching soft-focus ballad about his wife's sexual excellence. The rest of it--lazy, lushly produced rock, sometimes sweet, sometimes just cloying, but always unmistakably Macca--is worth hearing if just to ponder: "what the hell did he think he was doing?" --Taylor Parkes
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Paul McCartney's second album with his new band Wings (consisting of himself, his wife Linda, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, and drummer Denny Seiwell) was a far more polished recording than Wings' low-key 1971 debut, WILDLIFE. Recorded at several sessions between 1971 and 1973, RED ROSE SPEEDWAY found McCartney rebuilding his reputation as a major rock artist. The album featured his biggest solo hit to date,"My Love" (a romantic rock ballad that rocketed him back tothe top of the charts), as well as forceful rockers like the opening track, "Big Barn Bed", and plenty of winsome, McCartneyesque pop confections like "One Last Kiss".
A strongalbum in its original form, RED ROSE SPEEDWAY has since been augmented with three excellent bonus tracks, including "The Mess", a stomping guitar-driven rocker from Wings' 1972 European tour, and "Country Dreamer", a charming, country-tinged pop song that was previously only available as a long out-of-print single.Paul McCartney's second album with his new band Wings (consisting of himself, his wife Linda, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine, and drummer Denny Seiwell) was a far more polished recording than Wings' low-key 1971 debut, WILDLIFE. Recorded at several sessions between 1971 and 1973, RED ROSE SPEEDWAY found McCartney rebuilding his reputation as a major rock artist. The album featured his biggest solo hit to date, "My Love" (a romantic rock ballad that rocketed him back to the top of the charts), as well as forcefulrockers like the opening track, "Big Barn Bed", and plenty of winsome, McCartneyesque pop confections like "One Last Kiss".
A strong album in its original form, RED ROSE SPEEDWAY has since been augmented with three excellent bonus tracks, including "The Mess", a stomping guitar-driven rocker from Wings' 1972 European tour, and "Country Dreamer", a charming, country-tinged pop song that was previously only available as a long out-of-print single.