Ringo, featuring three Top 10 hits and a lot of help from his friends including three special Liverpudlian lads, put the drummer’s floundering status in perspective. Maybe the problem was that Macca and Ringo Starr were simply a couple of happy-go-lucky ex-Beatles without chips on their shoulders.īy 1973, the tensions gave way, and both McCartney and Starr released their brightest and biggest albums. While John Lennon and George Harrison utilized their early solo efforts to bare their souls, McCartney doodled with oodles of half-hearted ideas, perhaps attempting to wedge open his own spring of emotional wounds. With the shadow of the Beatles hanging precariously overhead, it must have dawned on Paul McCartney that if he was going stay in the limelight, he was going to have to do something monumental. Thirty-seven years after its initial release, Band On The Run remains a standout among the many solo releases that followed the Beatles’ 1970 break-up. Vinyl and MP3 versions are also for the taking. The 2010 reissue of Band On The Run includes three discs (two CDs and one DVD) and features nine bonus tracks plus footage of Paul and Linda McCartney in Lagos, a behind-the-scenes look at the famous album cover shoot, promotional video clips and the much coveted One Hand Clapping television special with studio performances filmed at Abbey Road in 1974, A four-disc deluxe edition adds a 120-page hard-bound book and the second disc from the 25th Anniversary edition. Best of all, it has even more unreleased material. Eleven years later, yet another remastered version of Band On The Run is making the rounds. The reissue also included a replica of a poster from the original album, along with a booklet filled with song listings, lyrics and an essay about the making of the album by leading Beatles authority Mark Lewisohn. In 1999, a 25th anniversary edition of Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 Band On The Run hit the market with a second disc of outtakes, alternate takes and mixes and spoken word interludes from McCartney (with a couple asides from luminaries like James Coburn and Dustin Hoffman) about the making of the album and its songs.
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