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Wings over America is a triple live album by the British–American rock band Wings, released in December 1976. The album was recorded during the American leg of the band's 1975–76 Wings Over the World tour. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart and reached number 1 on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart.

Wings over America
Live album by
Wings
Released10 December 1976
Recorded7 May – 23 June 1976; October–November 1976 (studio overdubs)
StudioAbbey Road, London (overdubs)
GenreRock
Length115:33
LabelCapitol
ProducerPaul McCartney
Wings chronology
Wings at the Speed of Sound
(1976)		 Wings over America
(1976)		 London Town
(1978)
Singles from Wings over America
  1. "Maybe I'm Amazed"
    Released: 4 February 1977

In addition to including several of McCartney's hits with Wings, the album features performances of five of his Beatles songs: "Yesterday", "Lady Madonna", "I've Just Seen a Face", "Blackbird" and "The Long and Winding Road". The album cover was designed by Hipgnosis – who were nominated in 1978, together with McCartney's production company MPL, for a Grammy Award for Best Album Package for this album – and depicts an airliner about to open its cabin door.[1] Wings over America was remastered and reissued in May 2013.


Recording


Originally, Wings over America was to be a two-record set of highlight performances, but this was rethought due to the success of a bootleg titled Wings from the Wings, which was released as a triple record set on red, white, and blue vinyl, and contained the entire 23 June 1976 concert recorded at The Forum in Los Angeles.[2] This caused McCartney to release the album as a three-record set, compiled from various shows from the band's North American tour during May–June 1976. McCartney's sound engineer listened to 800 hours of tape and selected the five best performances of each song from the 30-song set list.[3] McCartney chose and mixed the final set of recordings, mostly taken from the 23 June show.[1] "Soily" was recorded on 7 June 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver.[4] The live recordings then received studio overdubs during October–November 1976.[5] According to Wings drummer Joe English, "it took forever to get those 'Wings over America' tapes ready for the live album. We had to go into the studio and overdub most of the backing vocals."[6]


Release and reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
American Songwriter[8]
Consequence of SoundB[9]
The Essential Rock Discography6/10[10]
MusicHound2/5[11]
PopMatters[12]
Rolling Stone(favourable)[13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[14]
Ultimate Classic Rock7/10[15]
Uncut7/10[16]

Wings over America was issued six months after the end of the band's US tour. It was another commercial success for Wings, reaching number 1 in the US in early 1977 (the last in a five-album stretch of consecutive chart-topping albums for the band)[17] and number 8 in the UK.[18] For the five Beatles songs included, McCartney reversed the songwriting credit to McCartney–Lennon.[19] Years later John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono complained about the same songwriting credit on McCartney's Back in the U.S. album but neither Lennon or Ono publicly voiced any disapproval about the change made in 1976.[20]

Wings over America was the first triple set by a group to reach number 1 in the US, and was a critical success.[21] "Maybe I'm Amazed" was released as a single on 4 February 1977,[21] peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and at number 28 on the UK chart.[22]

In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine explained the wild success of the triple album: "The Beatles mystique was still very much attached to record and artist alike – at the time, John Lennon had seemingly burnt out a major chunk of his talent, George Harrison was losing his popular edge and had done a disastrous 1974 American tour, and no one was expecting great things from Ringo Starr – and it seemed like McCartney represented the part of the group's legacy that came closest to living up to fans' expectations. Thus the album ended up selling in numbers, rivaling the likes of Frampton Comes Alive! and other mega-hits of the period."[7]

Two related releases followed the album: the TV documentary Wings Over the World and a film titled Rockshow, purporting to contain a complete show from Seattle.[19] Although publicity material presented Rockshow as a document of this Seattle concert, it contains only five songs that were filmed at Seattle's Kingdome; the remainder of the film's 30 songs come from the band's New York and Los Angeles shows.[23] Limiting their relevance, however, these additional releases appeared three and four years, respectively, after the 1976 live album.[19]

Wings over America was issued as a double-compact disc in 1984 on Columbia.[nb 1] The album was first released in the UK on compact disc on 26 May 1987 by Parlophone.[nb 2][1] Along with McCartney's Ram and Tug of War albums, Wings over America was reissued in the US on compact disc on 18 January 1988.[nb 3][25] The album was issued by EMI two more times on CD, in 1989[nb 4] and on 19 February 1990.[nb 5][1] A 1999 reissue of the album by Toshiba-EMI in Japan reinstated the three-disc format from the original LP issue, and is the only edition of the album to do this.[nb 6][26] Up to this point, the Japanese CD edition was the only one that was remastered.[27] On 14 April 2008, the album was released as a digital download on both iTunes and Amazon. It was removed for some time from digital music sites in 2010 and 2011, but as of August 2011 it was available for sale on iTunes.[28]

The album was reissued on 27 May 2013 as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection.[29] The reissue was accompanied by the Record Store Day exclusive edition of "Maybe I'm Amazed" EP.[30] Rockshow was also reissued, this time on DVD and Blu-ray, with its audio remixed into 5.1, on 10 June 2013.[29]


Track listing


All tracks are written by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Jet" 9:56
2."Let Me Roll It" 3:51
3."Spirits of Ancient Egypt" 4:04
4."Medicine Jar"Jimmy McCulloch, Colin Eric Allen4:02
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Maybe I'm Amazed"Paul McCartney5:10
2."Call Me Back Again" 5:04
3."Lady Madonna"Paul McCartney–John Lennon2:19
4."The Long and Winding Road"McCartney–Lennon4:13
5."Live and Let Die" 3:07
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" 1:55
2."Richard Cory"Paul Simon2:50
3."Bluebird" 3:37
4."I've Just Seen a Face"McCartney–Lennon1:49
5."Blackbird"McCartney–Lennon2:23
6."Yesterday"McCartney–Lennon1:43
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Gave Me the Answer" 1:47
2."Magneto and Titanium Man" 3:11
3."Go Now"Larry Banks, Milton Bennett3:27
4."My Love" 4:07
5."Listen to What the Man Said" 3:18
Side five
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Let 'Em In" 4:02
2."Time to Hide"Denny Laine4:46
3."Silly Love Songs" 5:46
4."Beware My Love" 4:49
Side six
No.TitleLength
1."Letting Go"4:25
2."Band on the Run"5:03
3."Hi, Hi, Hi"2:57
4."Soily"5:10
Total length:115:33

Archive Collection Reissue


Wings over America was reissued in several packages:[26]

Discs one & two (Standard Edition): Sides one to three are on disc one, while sides four to six are on disc two.

Disc three

(Live at the Cow Palace) (Deluxe Edition Box Set and Best Buy Special Edition)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Let Me Roll It" 4:19
2."Maybe I'm Amazed"Paul McCartney5:27
3."Lady Madonna"McCartney–Lennon3:22
4."Live and Let Die" 3:38
5."Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" 2:14
6."Bluebird" 4:28
7."Blackbird"McCartney–Lennon2:38
8."Yesterday"McCartney–Lennon1:57

All tracks previously unreleased, recorded live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, 13 and 14 June 1976.

Disc four

DVD (Deluxe Edition Box Set)
No.TitleLength
1."Wings Over the World"1:15:46
2."Photographer's Pass"7:45

Personnel



Charts



Certifications and sales


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[57] Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[58] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[59] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


References


Footnotes

  1. US Columbia C2K 37990[24]
  2. UK Parlophone CDPCSP 720[1]
  3. US Capitol CDP 7 46715 2/CDP 7 46716 2
  4. UK Parlophone CZD 292[1]
  5. Europe Parlophone CDS 7 46715 8[1]
  6. Japan Toshiba-EMI TOCP-65507[26]

Citations

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  2. Heylin, Clinton (2010). Bootleg! The Rise And Fall of the Secret Recording Industry. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-217-9.
  3. Gambaccini, Paul (16 December 1976). "Paul Won't Rest His Wings". Rolling Stone. San Francisco.
  4. Madinger, Chip; Easter, Mark (2000). Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium. Chesterfield, MO: 44.1 Productions. p. 222. ISBN 0-615-11724-4.
  5. Rodriguez, Robert (2010). Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles' Solo Years, 1970–1980 (illustrated ed.). New York: Backbeat Books. p. 171. ISBN 9780879309688.
  6. King, Bill (December 1978). "Inside Wings: An Interview With Ex-Drummer Joe English". Beatlefan. Decatur, GA.
  7. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Wings over America – Wings, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney & Wings". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  8. Horowitz, Hal (5 June 2013). "Paul McCartney and Wings Wings over America – Deluxe Edition". American Songwriter. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  9. Eisinger, Dale (27 March 2017). "Album Review: Paul McCartney and Wings – Wings over America [Reissue]". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  10. Strong, Martin C. (2006). The Essential Rock Discography. Edinburgh, UK: Canongate. p. 696. ISBN 978-184195-827-9.
  11. Gary Graff & Daniel Durchholz (eds), MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press (Farmington Hills, MI, 1999; ISBN 1-57859-061-2), p. 731.
  12. Bergstrom, John (27 March 2017). "Paul McCartney & Wings: Wings Over America". PopMatters. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  13. Tucker, Ken (10 February 1977). "Wings Over America [Bonus Tracks] | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone.
  14. "Paul McCartney: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
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  19. McGee, Garry (2003). Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 107. ISBN 9780878333042.
  20. Garcia, Gilbert (27 January 2003). "The ballad of Paul and Yoko". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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На других языках

[de] Wings over America

Wings over America (englisch Wings über Amerika) ist das sechste Album der Gruppe Wings. Gleichzeitig ist es das achte Album von Paul McCartney nach der Trennung der Beatles und sein erstes Livealbum. Es wurde am 10. Dezember 1976 in den USA und Großbritannien veröffentlicht.
- [en] Wings over America

[es] Wings Over America

Wings Over America es el primer álbum en directo del grupo Wings, publicado por la compañía discográfica Capitol Records en diciembre de 1976. Su edición original, publicada como triple álbum de vinilo e incluyó un póster del grupo, alcanzó el puesto ocho en la lista de discos más vendidos del Reino Unido y llegó al primer puesto de la lista Billboard 200. La portada fue diseñada por Hipgnosis, al igual que la mayoría de los discos de Wings, e incluyó el dibujo del lateral de un avión con una puerta a punto de abrirse.

[it] Wings over America

Wings over America è il nono album da solista di Paul McCartney e il sesto dei Wings. Si tratta del primo album live di Paul McCartney e del primo e ultimo dei Wings. È stato registrato in varie occasioni durante il tour mondiale del gruppo, svoltosi tra il 9 settembre 1975 e il 21 novembre 1976.

[ru] Wings over America

Wings over America (рус. Крылья над Америкой) — концертный альбом рок-группы Wings, создателем и лидером которой являлся Пол Маккартни. Альбом выпущен в свет 10 декабря 1976 года. Записи для альбома сделаны в течение мая—июня 1976 года во время тура по городам США, являвшегося частью мирового тура группы под общим названием «Wings over the World tour» (рус. Крылья над миром).


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