The second album by Wings was released in the UK on 4th May 1973 (although the US got it earlier on 30th April) and gave the band their first Number One single with ‘My Love’.
Now, the record joins Paul’s previous post-Beatles albums McCartney, RAM and Wild Life in getting a limited edition 50th anniversary release, with a half-speed mastered vinyl arriving on Saturday 22nd April 2023 for Record Store Day
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Below the 4K remastered music video for 'My Love'
Paul: I’m very proud of ‘My Love’. This was early days for me and Linda, so it’s a love song to her really. One of the things I was proud of, funnily enough, was that it charted. It sort of did very well. [The ‘My Love’ single reached number one in the US!]
And the other story about the song was Henry McCullough’s guitar solo. We sat downstairs here at Abbey Road to do the take. It was all worked out. We were going to do it live with the orchestra, which was a little unusual, you know – you normally overdub the orchestra.
But in the old days Sinatra used to record live with the orchestra. So, we were sitting around, I’m on piano and Henry’s over there in a corner somewhere, and the orchestra’s ready to go. So I’m just about to start. We’d rehearsed and the engineers had got “the sound”.
And Henry just sort of wanders over to me and whispers in my ear: ‘I’ve got an idea for the guitar solo. Do you mind if I try it?’ And my mind goes, ‘No!! We’ve got an arrangement! They’re all here ready to go. It could be crap!’ [Laughs] But something just told me to sort of say,
‘Yeah, okay. Go for it!’ And he plays this really signature beautiful solo. So I was glad I said yes! But it was quite the moment, you know. It was like: well, here goes nothing! Then we do the take and I was amazed. I had never heard this solo, it was just something he’d come up with. And it was fabulous.
So, other songs on the album? ‘One More Kiss’. Mary was three or four around this time, so just a little kid. And you know how fathers often fuss over their kids?
So I was fussing over her, she was a really cute baby. And I’m fussing away going, ‘Give me a kiss. Come on, give me a kiss!’ And she’d get fed up with me and sort of go: ‘Dad. Alright. But only one more kiss.’ So I got one more kiss… and a song! It suggested a country and western thing. And I was thinking that when we just listened back to it. A country singer should cover it!
You can read the full"You gave me the answer" HERE
