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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

MAYBE I'M AMAZED

"WINGS OVER AMERICA"



On this day music history: December 10, 1976 - “Wings Over America”, the sixth album by Wings is released. Produced by Paul McCartney, it is recorded in Various Locations from May - June 1976. The band’s only officially issued live album, the twenty-eight track triple LP set (issued in a gatefold sleeve with custom art labels and a double sided poster) is released in response to a three LP bootleg album titled “Wings From The Wings” taken from their performance at The Forum in Inglewood, CA on June 23, 1976. The set is originally conceived as a double album but is expanded to three to reflect the complete concert. The album is a critical and commercial success upon its release, but is the subject of some controversy among fans when it is later revealed that some post production overdubs were done to the otherwise fully live recordings. “Wings Over America” makes its CD debut in 1984 while McCartney is signed to Columbia Records. This edition only remains in print for a brief period before he re-signs with Capitol Records in 1985, taking his catalog with him. The Columbia CD pressing becomes a heavily sought after collector’s item among fans, due to its limited availability. In May of 2013, the album is reissued as a remastered two CD edition, three LP set, and three CD + DVD archival boxed edition (including an eight track CD featuring selections from a Wings concert recorded at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA). “Wings Over America” spends one week at number one on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog

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