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Wings Over America [Live]

~ Paul McCartney, Wings
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  • Audio CD (19 Feb 1990)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B000007638
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,854 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Venus And Mars
2. Rock Show
3. Jet
4. Let Me Roll It
5. Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
6. Medicine Jar
7. Maybe I'm Amazed
8. Call Me Back Again
9. Lady Madonna
10. Long And Winding Road
11. Live And Let Die
12. Picasso's Last Words
13. Richard Cory
14. Bluebird
15. I've Just Seen A Face
16. Blackbird
17. Yesterday
18. You Gave Me The Answer
19. Magneto And Titanium Man
20. Go Now
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When McCartney formed Wings back in 1971, it was intended to be a touring unit as much as a recording one. After spending the latter half of his time with the Beatles confined to the studio, McCartney was itching to get back onto the road.By the time September 1975 rolled around, Wings' tours had been on the modest side. This latest one would last over a year and take the band around the world. The triple-album WINGS OVER AMERICA was recorded during this time and despite its heft, the performances within contained no filler and werebristling with energy from start to finish.
Wings' secret weapon was guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, an underrated musician whose playing lit up the opening medley of "Venus And Mars/Rock Show/Jet" and "Hi Hi Hi". Along with material from a mix of Wings albums, McCartney proudly revisited his past bydusting off latter-day Beatles songs which had previously been studio-only manifestations ("Lady Madonna", "Blackbird"). WINGS OVER AMERICA clearly showed that McCartney was the first Beatle to settle comfortably into touring regularly in addition to dealing well with his musical past.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best McCartney Live Recordings, 6 Mar 2001
By M. J. Rimmer "Mike Rimmer" (Halesowen, West Midlands United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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In the mid seventies, Paul McCartney backed by the most accomplished Wings line up took to the road to give epic performances across the world. I was lucky enough to see this tour in Newcastle Upon Tyne's City hall and it stands out as one of the best gigs I have ever seen. Drummer Joe English once told me that the band took three jets with them around the world. One jet was for the band and friends, one was for journalists and hangers on and the third jet was simply there in case they needed another jet. A huge expensive tour produced a huge exciting album that captures McCartney at his best, live in front of an adoring crowd and boy does he know how to work them up to a frenzy.

From the opening chords of Rock Show which sets the scene and creates plenty of anticipation through to the rock'n'rolling Soily which closes the set, this live performance had everything. Classic Beatles tracks like Long And Winding Road, Yesterday and Lady Madonna give it perspective but Wings themselves had enough classy songs to draw on.

The beautiful balladry of My Love, Blubird and Maybe I'm Amazed, the pure pop of Listen To What The Man Said and Silly Love Songs as well as some of their finest moments - Jet and Band On The Run give the whole album a sense of a non stop musical rollercoaster, full of surprises and changes of tempo. McCartney even gives Denny Laine the chance to resurrect his rendition of Go Now which he originally performed with the Moody Blues.

Never a dull moment, Wings Over America was culled from countless concerts across that continent with one of the band's sound men keeping tabs on the quality of each set as the band recorded performance after performance so Wings Over America is the cream of Wings live performances. Wings are forever over shadowed by The Beatles but their hit album and singles record would have most bands frothing at the mouth with jealousy. Over the years the different line ups turned in great performances and this is simply one hot live recording!

Mike Rimmer

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars McCartney's Best Concert.....Easily!, 27 Feb 2005
By John Heaton (Budapest, Hungary) - See all my reviews
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This is McCartney's Tour De Force Live In Concert highlight of a long career. And that was as true in 1976 as it is now. For while McCartney has done numerous tours since, mostly to great acclaim, it is here that we find Paul at the peak of his solo career, producing a concert where the Beatle numbers did not overshadow the solo material. For one good reason. The Wings songs here stand on their own here. McCartney was the only Ex Beatle who was able to do a world tour which achieved this remarkable feat. The Beatles songs on display here are wonderful of course. But the real highlights of this concert are the post Beatles McCartney classics: 'Live And Let Die', 'Bluebird', 'Let Me Roll It', 'My Love', ' Listen To What The Man Said', 'Let 'Em In', 'Beware My Love', 'Venus And Mars' to name but eight. This was a concert by a band at the height of their powers, quite possibly the biggest commercial attraction of the time, 1976. Although Abba were to eclipse Wings in the late '70s, but that's no bad thing. Bjorn and Benny were massive Beatles fans and it is fitting that the mantle should have passed into such classy hands.

Apart from the songs, listen to McCartney's bass playing on this record. On 'Time To Hide' for example. The rest of the band is also worthy of mention. Jimmy McCullough's solo on 'Maybe I'm Amazed' is inspired as is his solo track 'Medicine Jar' from the 'Venus And Mars' album from 1975. So much better than the album version, not least due again to McCartney's bass playing. Joe English's drumming is first class throughout. It was a major and noticeable disappointment when he quit the band the following year.

This is a not a nostalgia affair as all later McCartney concerts were to be, particularly those from the Flowers In The Dirt tour (1989) onwards. Not that those concerts didn't have their moments. They did. But this album remains the pinnacle of Paul's long career on the road. It showcases McCartney's band Wings at their creative and commercial peak, proving that at least One Ex Beatle went out with a live band and, at least for a short period anyway, was capable of Glorious Life After Death. Of The Beatles that is. With Lennon's death in 1980, most of this got forgotten somehow, but I record this opinion for the record. Historians, please take note! :-)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Probably the Best McCartney album., 6 Feb 2004
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As a Beatles obsessed 14/15 year old (Punk hadn't made its mark, just yet), I splashed out (or maybe my parents did for Christmas now I think about it) an obsene amount of money for the triple album back in 1976.

Of course, the point was it was worth every penny.

As someone's already observed, Jet, Live and Let Die and Band on the Run would ALL be classics if McCartney wasn't one half of the greatest song writing duo of pop times.

The McCartneys also gathered a great band of musicians around them and the sound recordists captured atmosphere AND sound quality on this album, which is NOT often the case with live albums (witness U2's Rattle & Hum).

Time moves on, of course, and there are a few 70s monstrosities on here, but CD technology means you can skip those at the touch of a button (no more scratching the arm over the vinyl!), but the great tracks (including some Beatles songs - The Long and Winding Road still gives me goose bumps - Will and Gareth excepted, of course!) ARE great and McCartney didn't get better after this.

Worth 20 quid? Difficult, but I'm going to dig my album set out again soon!

Update 2008 : £9.50? Bargain - Go buy it!
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3.0 out of 5 stars An Album With A Lot of Memories and History
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5.0 out of 5 stars If there's a rock show...'Course I'm gonna be there!!
Wings' 1976 tour was a massive success. Paul McCartney was finally being plaudited as a valid, credible performer in his own right, who was not riding on the coat tails of his... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great live rcok show!
Aftern actually seeing this concert back in 1976 I can only say that I am glad that I finally got this one on CD! Read more
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