Dear Fellow Wings Fans:
Today is the 50th anniversary of Band on the Run, creme de la creme of post-Beatles solo work. The whole album stands up to deep listening over and over again. There are just so many fantastic details.
My personal fave track is B-side “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five,” a perfect post-apocalyptic scifi love song. Mike Ackerman writes, “For a while McCartney played it in his concerts again recently, but I don't think it's in the set list now. Bowie producer Tony Visconti did the orchestration.” Included second item below.
Also, “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me),” said to be written from a newspaper article with Dustin Hoffman sitting at the dinner table. This is the 2nd to last piece on the album and it ends with an overture/medley — a Macca specialty. He is a romantic and a formalist at heart. And — plays drums throughout the record.
Sometimes I think Lennon and McCartney are the reincarnations of Gilbert and Sullivan — same sense of humor, same musical and lyrical quality.
Finally, the opening medley from Wings Over America, “Venus and Mars” » “Rockshow” » “Jet,” here from the film version Rockshow. Worth watching in full — splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Well, the night was falling as the desert world
Began to settle down
In the town they're searching for us everywhere
But we never will be foundBand on the run
Band on the run
And the county judge who held a grudge
Will search for evermore
For the band on the run
The band on the run
Band on the run, yeah
Band on the run, yeah
Unfortunately, the myth of the Beatles isn’t true.
https://sageofquaynews.blogspot.com/2023/05/did-beatles-write-all-their-own-music.html
No one is more crushed by learning of social engineering and the role of The Tavistock Institute than I am.
Mike Williams (Sage of Quay) is a leading Beatles researcher.
In U.K., Mark Devlin is the leading researcher on the use of music to shape societies over the last 60+ years.
https://djmarkdevlin.com/
Thanks, Eric, that was such a nice musical romp!