oh dear, woke up with a song in my head
Posted by simontyler on 19 November 2008 - 8:18am.
I'm only sharing this with you all because i can. For no reason that i know i woke up with Macca's "Don't say goodnight tonight" going around in my head.
So i guess its all day Wings on the I pod as i drive about the south of England today. If you see me grinning, with thumbs aloft , and singing infectious pop songs along the M3 then I would like to offer my apologies in advance.
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Thankyou Simon, this is a good opportunity to discuss 'Wings'.
I think they are a fabulous group.
Nothing to be ashamed of here people.
Because of his previous beat combo the man was on a hiding to nothing from the start.
Great singles band AND they are responsible for a bona fide classic Christmas song AND a bona fide classic Bond theme.
What more do you want?
'Imagine' or 'Let 'Em In'?
Easy.
Wings? Bingo!
Fantastic musicians (insert Linda jibe of choice here), proper songs with proper tunes and arrangements, sung by the greatest male pop singer Britain has ever produced. Of course, I scoffed at the time, but didn't everybody?
This is as proper as proper gets and probably ever will (even if Jimmy McCulloch does look like a renegade Rubette):
I could be a pedantic twat and mention that 'Maybe I'm Amazed'
was recorded by McCartney before he formed 'Wings' but I won't because I hate people who do that.
Let's continue with the Wings party....
'Let 'Em In' AND Legs and Co.
Life is good right now.
AND two songs banned by the BBC
How many other artists get it twice :-)
'Wingspan' DVD
Macca's attempt to raise the profile of Wings - built around a long interview by his daughter Mary.
Loads of home movies and unseen footage, loads of inside poop, lots about the early years with Linda and the kids in the farmhouse, great clips of them on the Wings Over Europe tour in the open top double decker bus.
It's very much Macca bigging up Wings but it's none the worse for that. Definitely worth 90 minutes of your time
Don’t forget this forgotten gem
during your Wingsfest, simon.
There's always one.......
I thought Wings unspeakable bollox, by and large, but no great fan of earlier McCartney either. Or, for that matter, Lennon, but they did write one or two catchy ditties, I will concede. Let's face it, there was precious little competition...........
Little bit harsh
on McCartney I feel, at least in seventies, when there were some good tunes like 'Listen To What The Man Said' (also a lot of tosh admittedly). Pretty atrocious in eighties though (clearly not alone there).
Thanks
Now I'll have to listen to Macca and Wings all day. They were class of course and that new Fireman album is very interesting, reminds me of the early solo albums for some reason. More Wings;
Made me muse a bit about Henry McCullough, tho.
I picked up the eponymous Grease Band LP, CD actually, in the excellent Henrys records, in Burton on Trent, at the w/e, having had the LP years ago, dispensing with it as not consistent with my then taste. I have to say it is better than I recall, and, apart from the vocals, dire, dire, dire, would have been quite a good school of choogle. The liner notes, laughably, declare his taking to lead vocalese like a duck to water. Duck to orange, more like it! The Spenner/Hubbard/Rowlands backing every bit as solid as it their respective reputations would expect. R.I.P. Alan Spenner, an all round good egg in my book, from this band, thru' Kokomo, sessions aplenty and even 80s Roxy.
Wings...
..actually I'm not that keen on his Wings stuff save 'Band On The Run' but based on 'Rockshow' and the triple live album they were a really good live act. Love much of his solo work though.
Wow
I thought I was the only one. Now I can come out.
My name is Tony and I like Wings.
I have to say that I have rarely, if ever, been as excited about going to a concert as I was when I went to see Wings at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975. A real Beatle, live on stage!
There was a sense of novelty...
...about seeing a solo Beatle then, with the attendant thrill that he *might* play a Beatles number.
Now a Macca tour is greeted with shrugged shoulders round here. I've even stopped feeling a duty to buy the live albums.
Back Home and very happy
with the sun shinning all day and wingspan on comtinual loop. Silly Love Longs, Uncle Albert, C-moon. Its been a good day.
Uncle Albert
I think my hearing this for the first time, oh, hundreds of years ago, that made me realise that the connection between Paul and vaudeville was alive and thriving. And that I didn't like it one bit.
I love the fact that Sir Thumbs...
...appreciates, and regularly nods to, the roots of his music.
From 'When I'm 64' to the early Fireman stuff he's got an appreciation of the grand sweep of popular music that shames many of us wot hangs around here.