Again confessions due as I did buy this when it came out and the most twee and silly period of Sir Paulie it is but I don't mind. We were younger and I am so much older than that now! Silly love songs indeed! 

On this day in music history: April 30, 1973 - “Red Rose Speedway”, the second album by Paul McCartney & Wings is released (UK release is on May 4, 1973). Produced by Paul McCartney, it is recorded in Los Angeles, CA from March - June & September - October 1972 at Olympic and Abbey Road Studios in London. Originally conceived as a seventeen track double album, it is pared down to a nine track single LP with several songs later resurfacing as single B-sides (“The Mess”, “C Moon”, “I Lie Around”, “Country Dreamer”). It spins off the hit single “My Love” (#1 Pop). The original copies of the LP are packaged in a gatefold sleeve (with a twelve page photo booklet) with the message “we love you” to Stevie Wonder embossed on the back cover of the LP jacket in braille. The album is first reissued on CD in 1993, with four additional bonus tracks, including the single only releases “Hi Hi Hi”, “C Moon”, The Mess" and “I Lie Around”. “Red Rose Speedway” spends three weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

thanks to the most excellent Jeff Harris' blog 'Behind The Grooves