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"Jet" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their third studio album Band on the Run (1973). It was the first British and American single to be released from the album. The song peaked at No. 7 on the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe.
"Temporary Secretary" is a song by Paul McCartney, released as the third single from his album McCartney II in September 1980. Dominated by a dissonant sequenced synthesiser line, NME later described the song as "wonky electropop that didn't sound so much ahead of its time as out of it altogether."
Rolling Stone described the song as McCartney's equivalent to John Lennon's "Imagine". [1] The song has a clear division between the verses featuring sad lyrics about the struggle to survive, the necessity of conflict (pushing and pulling) and the hopeful refrain, in which McCartney looks for a future where these struggles are no longer necessary. [2]
"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.
[2] [10] [11] It was a song for which Paul McCartney had high hopes, but early recordings did not live up to the song's potential. [10] [11] McCartney said in 1975 of his initial opinion of the song, "It was one of the songs we’d gone in with high hopes for. Whenever I would play it on the piano, people would say ‘Oh, I like that one.’
"Junk" is a song written by English musician Paul McCartney and released on his debut studio album McCartney (1970). He started writing the song in 1968 with the Beatles while the group were studying Transcendental Meditation in India. [1]
McCartney often performs the song live, and it is featured on the live albums Back in the World, Back in the U.S., Amoeba Gig and Good Evening New York City. [1] While performing the song, McCartney is prone to becoming choked up over the emotional content of the song. He told The Guardian, At least once a tour, that song just gets me.
Although McCartney did not formally record the song until after the band's break-up, he previewed "Another Day" during the Beatles' Let It Be sessions in January 1969. [3] [4] [5] The song's lyric adopts an observational style reminiscent of "Eleanor Rigby"; Denny Seiwell, the drummer on the Ram sessions, called it "'Eleanor Rigby' in New York City".