ONE HAND CLAPPING!

WINGS LIVE!

ALBUMS THAT NEVER WERE

SonicLoveNoize has turned up trumps this morning (when doesn't he ever?) and those of you visiting here could do worse than drop over and avail yourselves of this excellent Wings Live set he has compiled. I have said before I came across the page 'Albums That Never Were' when looking for a Captain Beefheart - It Comes To You in a Plain Brown Wrapper and his projects are true labours of love recreating classic, sometimes mythical, missing legendary albums and projects of love they are too. Plain Brown Wrapper is uniformly excellent as they usually are. It is also worth mentioning in these days of sound bites and little bitty short attention spans his notes on these projects are superb and always insightful and enlightening. This is a great one and worth a read and enjoy the superb quality throughout. 

My wife and I were card carrying members of the Wings fan club through the seventies and love this period of C -Moon, Little Woman Love, Hi Hi Hi etc but this covers his classics too with Blackbird, Maybe I'm Amazed, Let Me Roll It to Band on The Run etc. Superb!

Mark Heggen - cover artwork

Sonic says:

This is a reconstruction of the proposed 1974 live in-the-Abbey Road studio album One Hand Clapping by Paul McCartney & Wings. Originally meant as the studio rehearsals for a 1974 Wings Over Australia tour that never happened, the proceedings were filmed for a possible film release, akin to The Beatles’ Get Back project eight years earlier. Despite the high quality of live studio performances—especially of the then-unreleased “Soily”--McCartney shelved the entire project, as was the fate of a number of other self-financed Wings film projects throughout the 70s and 80s. This reconstruction attempts to replicate what a double-LP release in 1974 could have been like, using the best possible sources, including official releases and painstakingly-remastered bootleg recordings. All tracks have been sequenced in the actual recording order, spread across four sides of a vinyl record.

Wings - 'One Hand Clapping' - Albums That Never Were

 

 

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