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"Band on the Run" is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, the title track to their 1973 album Band on the Run. Released as a single in April 1974 in the US and in June 1974 in the UK, it topped the charts and sold over a million copies in 1974 in the United States, and reached number 3 in the United Kingdom.
Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released on 30 November 1973.It was McCartney's fifth album after leaving the Beatles in April 1970 and his final album on Apple Records.
However, in a 2010 interview on the UK television channel ITV1 for the programme Wings: Band on the Run (to promote the November 2010 CD/DVD re-release of the album) McCartney said that Jet was the name of a pony he had owned, although many of the lyrics bore little relation to the subject; indeed, the true meaning of the lyrics has defied all ...
Wings’ albums included the smash “Band on the Run” in 1973 and one-offs like the “Live and Let Die” theme. McCartney has not produced a memoir, although he has cooperated with biographers.
The first sample of the "ho, hey ho" bit actually occurs on the B side of the Band on the Run album itself, at the end of the track "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)". Various elements from the song, such as the lyrics "ho, hey ho", were sampled in the track "Ho' Is Short for Honey" on 88-Keys' 2008 album, The Death of Adam.
"Let Me Roll It" is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released on their 1973 album Band on the Run. The song was also released as the B-side to "Jet" in early 1974, and has remained a staple of McCartney's live concerts since it was first released.
This isn't the first time McCartney has revisited an album to strip off some of the bells and whistles to get closer to the original recording. The “underdubbed” version of “Band on the Run ...
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (sometimes written as "1985") is a song by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released as the final track on their 1973 album Band on the Run. [2] It has been featured on the 2001 documentary DVD Wingspan and Paul McCartney and Wings' 1974 TV special One Hand Clapping.