Paul’s “distinctive British sensibility now touches on things without belaboring them,” he noted. “Yet McCartney has managed to make the complexities of multi-track recording sound as natural and fresh as tomorrow.” Rolling Stone’s Jon Landau admired the lyrical sharpness of the album. “Obviously Band On The Run is a carefully produced album,” she wrote. “Paul’s Grooves Will Grab You,” said the New York Times’ headline for Loraine Alterman’s review. Listen to the best of Paul McCartney & Wings on Apple Music and Spotify. It spent four non-consecutive weeks at the summit, and went on to amass more than two years – 116 weeks – on the bestsellers, by far the longest run of any post-Beatles McCartney recording. On April 13, with the title song newly unveiled as a single, Band On The Run took over from John Denver’s Greatest Hits as America’s favorite album. Vandebilt A5 Let Me Roll It B1 Mamunia B2 No Words B3 Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me) B4 Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five. The album’s US chart debut was at a relatively lowly No.33, but it continued to build during the opening months of 1974. A1 Band On The Run A2 Jet A3 Bluebird A4 Mrs. The Wings LP enjoyed another ten weeks in the UK Top 10, and went on to complete an extraordinary unbroken run of almost two years on the British charts.
Then Band On The Run made up for lost time with a seven-week run before it ceded the No.1 berth to the Mike Oldfield album Hergest Ridge. Released on December 5, not only did it enter at a very modest No.45 just before Christmas, it didn’t reach the summit until its 32nd week, in July 1974. You might assume that the 1973 release was an immediate UK chart-topper. Ele começa ótimo, porém depois da metade a qualidade tem uma pequena queda com música bem monótomas como 'No Words' e 'Picassos Last Words'. The single topped the Hot 100 and sold a million copies in America alone. O projeto de Paul McCartney com a banda Wings é satisfatório, acerta em alguns pontos como nas partes vocais principalmente. Band On The Run was initially a slow burner, and it took eight months before it topped the UK album chart on 27 July 1974. Band On The Run was the follow-up to Red Rose Speedway.It was released in the USA on 3 December 1973. Band On The Run (Barn Rehearsal 21st July 1989) 05:00 04. Wings’ third album, Band On The Run, was released in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1973. Band On The Run (Original) (Background) / Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 1) 02:17 03. But radio stations lapped it up, and so did consumers. Paul McCartney (Dialogue Intro) / Band On The Run (Nicely Toasted Mix) 01:12 02.
With its five-minute duration and tempo changes, it was perhaps an unlikely contender to be a 45. Then came the release – by popular demand, as the press advertising said – of the title track. Band On The Run entered the US chart just before Christmas 1973, and was propelled not just by approving reviews, but by the huge success of the “Jet” single.
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