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McCartney, P: Band On The Run
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Album: McCartney, P: Band On The Run
# Song Title   Time
1)    Band On the Run More Info... 0:05
2)    Jet More Info... 0:04
3)    Bluebird More Info... 0:03
4)    Mrs Vandebilt More Info... 0:04
5)    Let Me Roll It More Info... 0:04
6)    Mamunia More Info... 0:05
7)    No Words More Info... 0:02
8)    Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) More Info... 0:05
9)    Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five More Info... 0:05
 
Album: McCartney, P: Band On The Run
# Song Title   Time
1)    Band On the Run More Info... 0:05
2)    Jet More Info... 0:04
3)    Bluebird More Info... 0:03
4)    Mrs Vandebilt More Info... 0:04
5)    Let Me Roll It More Info... 0:04
6)    Mamunia More Info... 0:05
7)    No Words More Info... 0:02
8)    Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) More Info... 0:05
9)    Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five More Info... 0:05
 
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  • Photographer: Linda McCartney.
  • Band on the Run is generally considered to be Paul McCartney's strongest solo effort. The album was also his most commercially successful, selling well and spawning two hit singles, the multi-part pop suite of the title track and the roaring rocker "Jet." On these cuts and elsewhere, McCartney's penchant for sophisticated, nuanced arrangements and irrepressibly catchy melodic hooks is up to the caliber he displayed in the Beatles, far surpassing the first two Wings releases, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. The focus found in Band on the Run may have to do with the circumstances of its creation: two former members quit the band prior to recording, leaving McCartney, wife Linda, and guitarist Denny Laine to complete the album alone (with Paul writing, producing, and playing most of the instruments himself). The album has the majestic, orchestral sweep of McCartney's Abbey Road-era ambition, with a wide range of style-dabbling, from the swaying, acoustic jazz-pop of "Bluebird" and the appealing, straightforward rock of "Helen Wheels" to the wiry blues of "Let Me Roll It" and the swaying, one-off pub sing-along "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)." Though it lacks the emotional resonance of contemporaneous releases by John Lennon and George Harrison, McCartney's infallible instinct for popcraft overflows on this excellent release. ~ Al Campbell
Professional Reviews
Q (6/00, p.64) - Ranked #75 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...A joyous, moving, occasionally daft album, a transatlantic chart-topper which sold over 6 million..."

Uncut (p.98) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "BAND ON THE RUN is still magisterial, for its melodies, invention and sheer confidence....Genuinely great."

CMJ (3/20/00, p.28) - "...Even Lennon once called it 'a great album'. Its multi-faceted big-band rock has withstood the test of time, posturing firm like an iceberg of creative brilliance..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The songs] remain some of McCartney's deftest pop creations, none more so than the irresistible, three-part drama of the title track..."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/01, p.64) - "...Acclaimed as Wings' finest...and the title track is unquestionably fine..."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.87) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album saw the long-overdue return of Paul's creative focus, from the urgency of 'Jet' to the subtle jazz of 'Bluebird'..."
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