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Wings - Wings Over America Audio CD

A fair review of the Wings "Wings Over America" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Wings reviews here, or go back to the Wings tabs.

Wings Band: Wings
Title: Wings Over America
Rating:
Release Date: 1997-01-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Jet 2: Let Me Roll It 3: Spirits of Ancient Egypt 4: Medicine Jar 5: Maybe I'm Amazed 6: Call Me Back Again 7: Lady Madonna 8: Long and Winding Road 9: Live and Let Die 10: Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) 11: Richard Cory 12: Bluebird 13: I've Just Seen a Face 14: Blackbird 15: Yesterday - Wings 16: You Gave Me the Answer 17: Magneto and Titanium Man 18: Go Now 19: My Love 20: Listen to What the Man Said 21: Let 'Em In - Wings 22: Time to Hide 23: Silly Love Songs 24: Beware My Love 25: Letting Go 26: Band on the Run 27: Hi, Hi, Hi 28: Soily

Maybe I'm Amazed!
Then, the Beatles break-up scars were still very fresh when McCartney hit the road in '75-'76. There's a different feel with McCartney in the 70s versus McCartney of today. He had managed and succeeded to start a new life with John, George and Ringo but compared to his fellow bandmates starting in 1970, he really needed to prove himself who he was. Ringo in the early 70s really bursted out on the music scene, George was phenomenal with All Things Must Pass and Bangldesh and John's first post Beatles solo album is a major musical breakthrough and who can forget Imagine? McCartney's first solo album was masterful and Ram was also a great album and Wing's first album went nowhere, Red Rose Speedway was a major step-up and Band On The Run was and still is a masterpiece. I remember the reviews of Venus and Mars and many critics were like. . . not bad.

The tour of all tours in the 70s was Wings Over America. . . along with Linda and Denny Laine, Macca put together and amazing rock band and what a grand slam he hit with this tour and album. . . the movie Rock Show is just an amazing live show, the faces in the crowd as they see Macca post-Beatles on-stage, breathtaking.


Definitive In Many Many Ways
If you want the definitive version of "Maybe I'm Amazed," this one's for you. This is one of the best live recordings of McCartney I have ever heard, and I say that having collected Beatle-related releases for many years. If you want to hear what the Beatles circa 1975 would have sounded like, check out "Call Me Back," perhaps one of McCartney's finest vocal performances ever. The lovely "Blackbird" puts in an appearance, as does a chilling and memorable performance of "Yesterday. " "The Long and Winding Road," with its beautiful, Penny Lane-like interlude and harmonious rejoinder, "don't keep me waiting," is another highlight not to miss. The Wings stuff is pretty good, too, but if you love McCartney, you don't want to miss this one. .


Macca at his best
Macca had reinvented himself after The Beatles, he'd created a new image (Wings) a new music catalogue that stood up by themselves and a new sound, putting the Beatle era behind him as he moved into the looser disco era. We can only consider these albums as snap shots in time. The first solo album 'McCartney' was his rebirth and this album, 'Wings Over America' was the culmination of everything in a cracking live performance. Its as if the album says 'here, this is what I've done, who I am and what I can now do'. And it works 100%. Its vibrant and exciting, its a man on top of his trade. Buy it and you wont be disappointed. I first bought it too many years ago on vynal and here I am now buying it again on CD. . .

BTW, I saw Wings in Liverpool back in '79, his first concert back home. Electric atmosphere, he played his new album 'Back to the Egg' stuff. . . . lights out, single chair and spotlight, strum, strum 'Yesterday. . . '. I think all Liverpool cried that night, the lad had come home. Cheers for the memories Macca, not bad for a scally. .


is this a remaster?
Does anyone know if this mp3 download has been remastered?. no doubt in my mind that this is the best live album ever! But let's face it folks the CD and LP sound quality suck.


Not really Paul at his best live...

TRIPPING THE LIVE FANTASTIC captures Paul live much better. the opening medley of Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Jet and the 4 song encore of Letting Go, Band On the Run, Hi Hi Hi & Soily, are the only real highlights of this recording. If only for the killer live version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
So, if you want to hear Paul really good live get TRIPPING first. Then get this. And forget about the other live releases. Especially PAUL IS LIVE. This and TRIPPING are the only 2 live recordings by Paul you'll ever need.

GREG .


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