Year: 5 December 1973 (US) 30 November 1973 (UK) (LP 1984)
Label: Apple Records (UK), PAS 10007
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: London, England (1971–1981)
Time: 41:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 260 Mb
Label: Apple Records (UK), PAS 10007
Style: Rock, Pop Rock
Country: London, England (1971–1981)
Time: 41:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 260 Mb
Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American
rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released in December 1973. It was
McCartney's fifth album after leaving the Beatles in April 1970.
Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was
aided by two hit singles – "Jet" and "Band on the Run" – such that it
became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and
Australia, in addition to revitalising McCartney's critical standing. It
remains McCartney's most successful album and the most celebrated of
his post-Beatles works.
The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic location. Shortly before departing for Lagos, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group. With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts. The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of song lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, it was listed at 418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as being "with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called the Beatles". It was McCartney's last album issued on the Apple record label. In 2013, Band on the Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_on_the_Run)
The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic location. Shortly before departing for Lagos, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group. With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts. The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of song lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, it was listed at 418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as being "with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called the Beatles". It was McCartney's last album issued on the Apple record label. In 2013, Band on the Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_on_the_Run)
01. A1 Band on the Run (05:13)
02. A2 Jet (04:09)
03. A3 Bluebird (03:24)
04. A4 Mrs Vandebilt (04:41)
05. A5 Let Me Roll It (04:52)
06. B1 Mamunia (04:53)
07. B2 No Words (02:36)
08. B3 Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) (05:55)
09. B4 Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (05:30)
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