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Wings Greatest is a compilation album by the British–American rock band Wings, released in the UK on 1 December 1978. [6] It was the band's last release through Capitol in the US. The album is notable as being the first official retrospective release from Paul McCartney's post- Beatles career.
Wings had twelve top-10 singles (including one number one) in the UK and fourteen top 10 singles (including six number ones) in the US. All 23 singles released by Wings reached the US top 40, and one two-sided hit, "Junior's Farm"/"Sally G", reached the top 40 with each side. Of the nine albums released by Wings, all went top 10 in either the ...
An album of Buddy Holly covers recorded by the core Wings threesome (Paul, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine), with Laine on lead vocals. 1980 Japanese Tears: Three songs on the album, "Send Me The Heart", "I Would Only Smile" and "Weep For Love", were recorded by different incarnations of Wings, with Denny Laine on lead vocals. 1981
Wings had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Silly Love Songs", the number one song of the year. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1976 . [ 1 ] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1976, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of November 8, 1975 through ...
The BPI Year Book chart was a list of the biggest-selling singles in the UK for the period 1960-79: although it was published midway through 1979, the list includes the year's two biggest selling singles, "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel and "Heart of Glass" by Blondie. Stripping out the songs from the 1960s, the remaining 16 songs in the list ...
The single was Wings' biggest hit in Britain and is one of the best selling singles of all time in the United Kingdom, where it became the 1977 Christmas number one and was the first single to sell over two million copies nationwide. [1] [2] [3]
McCartney performed "It's Now or Never" on this British album of popular artists recording songs from Elvis Presley movies. 1991 For Our Children: A various artists' album of children's songs released by Disney to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation includes Wings' "Mary Had a Little Lamb", originally released in 1972. 1992
"Silly Love Songs" has since appeared on multiple McCartney greatest hits compilations, including Wings Greatest, All the Best! and Pure McCartney. The song has also appeared on the "Hits" section of the compilation album Wingspan: Hits and History. Despite its popularity, McCartney has not performed the song live since the dissolution of Wings.