Live And Let Die by Wings Released Friday 1 June 1973

By editorial board on June 1, 2022

Wings’ single ‘Live And Let Die’ was released in the United Kingdom on 1 June 1973.

Although Wings’ early releases had received mixed critical and commercial responses, ‘Live And Let Die’ established the band as a potent force, able to compete against rock’s premier league of performers.

Although they subsequently underwent personnel changes, by the end of 1973 Wings had released Band On The Run, their most commercially successful album. Live And Let Die’ was released in the UK as Apple R 5987. It spent 14 weeks on the single chart, peaking at number nine. (Beatlesbible)‘

In the US it was issued on 18 June as Apple 1863, and topped two of the three main singles charts. The b-side on both occasions was ‘I Lie Around’, written by Paul McCartney but sung by Denny Laine. ‘I Lie Around’ was a Ram outtake completed during the Red Rose Speedway sessions. It was Laine’s only lead vocal on a Wings single.

Paul McCartney admits that Wings was not "a good group". In an interview for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes, the Beatles legend described his follow-up project Wings as "terrible."

The band, which the former Beatle set up with his late wife Linda, had a string of hits including Mull of Kintyre and Live and Let Die and won six Grammy awards. (article appear first on Telegraph) by Alice Vincent,

But despite this success, Wings have always been widely ridiculed. And now it appears that Sir Paul agrees with his critics.

Speaking to broadcaster John Wilson in front of an audience that included Brad Pitt, James Bay and Paul Weller at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, McCartney said:

"We were terrible. We weren't a good group. People said, 'Well, Linda can't play keyboards', and it was true. But you know, Lennon couldn't play guitar when we started. We knew Linda couldn't play, we didn't know each other, but we learned. We had some funny experiences. Looking back on it, I'm really glad we did it."

"It was very depressing. You were breaking from your lifelong friends, we used to liken it to the army - we had been army buddies for a few years, and now you weren't going to see them again.

"People said to me, 'Get a big supergroup with loads of stars,' but for some mad reason I wanted to go back to square one and do it as we did in The Beatles,"

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But with Wings, yeah, I’d feel that I didn’t have to play the Hofner any more, because that was The Beatles and it sort of ended with that period. I don’t know if I was thinking that deeply in Wings."

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