Wings

[bearkat77]

Has anyone seen this about Paul's group Wing? I got this info from Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com) magazine.

The long awaited Paul McCartney and Wings anthology, Wingspan, will be released in May on EMI Records. A documentary on the '70s supergroup will air around the same time. Sources close to the project say it will be a two CD box set and is expected to contain classic Wings songs such as Live And Let Die and My Love.

The documentary has been made by McCartney's daughter, Mary and her husband, Allaster Donald. The documentary shows how McCartney and his late wife formed the group after the Beatles split in 1970 and features them in concert and in the studio. McCartney's wife Linda died of breast cancer in 1998.

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[st.paulygirl]

I've just started replacing my Wings records with CD's....wonder if it's gonna be another hits album.All the Wings CD's have got bonus tracks;rare b-sides and stuff.Had to get them from the Beatlefest catalog though.(Most music stores cater to the teen top ten crowd)

[beatlesno9]

Sounds cool...as long as it's NOT another Greatest Hits thing. Will the documentury be on network T.V. or what? I've been wondering if Macca will put out a solo anthology a la John(?)

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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

[joe]

how bout an album titled "silly love songs-1963-2001." first quintuplet cd. part 2 released in 2002.

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[darkhorse]

st.paulygirl, the "Paul McCartney Collection" is a nice way to have those oddities and rare tracks, since they come as bonus track in the series (they are 16 remastered CDs, with a white cover and a tiny little original cover in the right corner). I'm getting those (I have 8 by now), and they sound great. And I'm getting "Wingspan" as well, if it ever comes to Chile, of course.

And Joe,
"Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs
What's wrong with that?" http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

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[bearkat77]

Here's the latest word on Wingspan:

WINGSPAN PREMIERES MAY 11

Wingspan--the story of Wings, Paul McCartney's follow-up group to the
Beatles--will world-premiere on ABC-TV on May 11. The dramatic and revealing two-hour film will tell the story of Paul and Linda McCartney's family lives from 1970-1980, and how they created a group that would become one of the biggest rock bands of the '70s. The film is told through extensive and candid interviews with McCartney himself,
and features never-before-seen home movies of the McCartney family, private group archives, and rare Wings concert film footage.

Wingspan tells how McCartney, devastated by the breakup of the Beatles, tried to restart his career from scratch; and how he would take his entire family (including pets) and the rest of the band around Britain, humbly asking for work. The group got around to shows--not with police-escorted limousines, but rather driving themselves in a van to small halls and venues--sometimes unannounced and uninvited, with
admission prices to see them costing as little as 33 cents.

The film also reveals that, despite some bad luck--lawsuits, pot busts, and BBC airplay bans, Wings rose above it all with hit singles, Number One albums, and a U.S. stadium show even bigger than that of his former group. McCartney said of Wings:
"I always thought that you couldn't follow the Beatles. Wingspan is the story and the soundtrack of how we set out to do it. I was actually competing with myself and it was certainly very hard. Looking back on it, I think that's the drama of Wings. It's a very human story."

Alistair Donald, the film's producer/director, was personally asked to make Wingspan by Paul and Linda McCartney. Donald said of the making of the film: "Making Wingspan initially involved months of searching through archives and collections around the world to compile the best footage, photographs, and audio available. We discovered a lot of excellent, rare, and never-seen material. I wanted to have Paul tell
us the story of Wings as the on-screen link. This meant that not only could he give the footage an authoritative perspective, but also that he could provide Linda's view, which is essential, as the story of Wings is equally the story of a marriage and a family."

On Tuesday (May 8), Wingspan the album collection, featuring 40 Wings songs, will be released by EMI/Capitol Records. Preorders are available by clicking here:
Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005BA03/thebeatleonabbey/)

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[bearkat77]

McCartney announces 'Wingspan' tracklist

(Launch) - "Wingspan," the two-disc Paul McCartney and Wings retrospective that features 40 songs hand-picked by McCartney to tell the story of the post-Beatles group he formed with his wife Linda, is due out May 8. The set is broken in two parts, "Hits" and "History," and includes 17 singles that have each sold more than a million copies worldwide, including the No. 1 hits "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," "My Love," "Silly Love Songs," "Band On The Run," "Listen To What The Man Said" and "With a Little Luck." "I thought I should choose an album that I like. Just like Wings itself, this album doesn't stick to any particular rules - but in my mind it's the best of that period," McCartney said. Although it stretches across two CDs and runs 151 minutes, "Wingspan" will list for the price of a single album.

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That's really great, there's certainly lots to look forward to - especially with the film. Hopefully I'll live to see it released here.

[This message has been edited by Nowhere Man (edited April 07, 2001 at 01:49 AM).]

[darkhorse]

Same here... Those films seem to be produced only for the people in the North part of the World... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/smile.gif

"Wingspan" will be, however, a wonderful collection of music... But a redundant one, if you already own the other Paul solo albums: the only new things there are the "With A Little Luck" and "Junior's Farm" 'DJ Edits' (don't ask me what that means!) and yet other two new mixes of "No More Lonely Nights". Paul could easily release a whole double CD set with mixes of that song... If he does a "cueca" (our chilean national dance version) version of that... Well I guess that's the only thing he hasn't done yet... http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif

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"Win or lose it, into the soul
Love is long, love is long"

[onothimagen]

Take it from a DJ... DJ Edit means it's the edited version of that song. It was a very popular practice back in the 60's & 70's to take for example the 5 minute "With A Little Luck" and whittle it down to 3:30 so that a radio station could play more songs an hour.

This is also one of the reason why FM radio and Album Rock Stations were born back then. Instead of Top 40 stations, you could hear some deeper cuts from an album other than singles OR the full version of the song. I guess nowdays, the DJ edits on a CD allows them to put more songs on a single CD disc. Other than that, I don't know WHY edited versions of songs still exist.

I remember playing a 4 minute version of "Hey Jude"... an edited version obviously!

[darkhorse]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by onothimagen:
I remember playing a 4 minute version of "Hey Jude"... an edited version obviously <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Isn't that a crime? You should have been punished! http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif
Anyway, thanks for the explanation. And I didn't know you were a DJ. "Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local DJ..." http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/smilies/images/icons/wink.gif Where did you work?



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Love is long, love is long"

[bearkat77]

If anyone remembers the LP, "20 Greatest Hits", released in America in 1982 you'll notice that "Hey Jude" is edited to 5:05.

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