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"Maybe I'm Amazed" is a song written by the English musician Paul McCartney that was first released on his 1970 debut solo album McCartney. Although the original recording has never been released as a single, a live performance by McCartney's later band Wings, from the live album Wings over America, was released in 1977; this version became a top-ten hit in the United States and reached number ...
Songs featured include numerous McCartney, Wings and Beatles hits, as well as some covers. [1] [4] Although a TV sales brochure was made, the film and album went unreleased at the time. In the decades since, they have been frequently bootlegged, and various tracks have been released on special editions of other McCartney and Wings albums. [1]
"Soily" appears on the 1976 live album Wings over America and was released as the B-side of the single "Maybe I'm Amazed" in 1977.This version was recorded on 7 June 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver.
Wings over America was the first triple set by a group to reach number 1 in the US, and was a critical success. [21] "Maybe I'm Amazed" was released as a single on 4 February 1977, [21] peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, and at number 28 on the UK chart. [22]
From this album came a single release of the live version of "Maybe I'm Amazed" [41] originally from the McCartney album. [42] The single's flipside was "Soily", a previously unreleased rocker that was often used as a closer for the concerts. Jimmy McCulloch (left) and Paul McCartney during the 1976 Wings Over the World tour
Wings come in for some artful, bluesy and anthemic revisionism: “Junior’s Farm” and “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five” are all glam and grit, “Let Me Roll It” is full of Eagles pomp ...
Biographer Philip Norman pairs the song with "Maybe I'm Amazed" as "ode[s] to Linda" that, in the context of McCartney's songwriting in 1973, were "so far beyond his usual Wingspan that the dream-voices which had whispered "Yesterday" and "Let It Be" into his ear might have returned". [84]
In late 1977, Wings' released "Mull of Kintyre" as a double A-side with "Girls' School". [2] The single reached number one in the UK and remains one of the best selling UK singles of all time. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] After "Mull of Kintyre", the band released their next studio album, London Town , in 1978. [ 2 ]