WINGS LIVE IN L.A. 1976 - HEAR ROCK CITY

 WINGS OVER AMERICA II

So we had a lovely George tribute we should have some more Macca I feel and whoops whadya know Hear Rock City turned up trumps t'other day

Wings live in L.A. 1976

Who Didn't Love Wings Over America?

(I Still Have the 3 Record Set Around Somewhere...) me too!

This Is a Great Sounding Soundboard From 

Los Angeles, 

Mostly,

(A Few From the Seattle Show Mixed In)

From The Wings Over... Tour back in 1976!

Paul McCartney and Wings At Their Best!

My wife and I were still members of the Fanclub by this time (the year we got married and still living in Leicester after my sojourn at Art College) and we bought the triple live album when it came out of course and loved that album despite people accusing it of being 'touched up ' and remixed if not 'over produced' but being a triple we forgave Paulie anything! This is a peach and breathtaking quality!

WINGS OVER AMERICA II - Hear Rock City

With a selection of cover artwork no less!

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

Still mad keen on Wings by now and Paul & Linda especially and bought 'Wings over America' when it came out and it was probably amongst the last albums I bought by Paul when it came it out . . . . . .. but boy we loved this! And remember even Paulie had a mullet!

Of course we bought everything since!

On this day in music history: November 26, 1980 - The live concert film “Rockshow” is released theatrically in the US. Making its world premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, the film featuring Paul McCartney & Wings is filmed during the “Wings Over America” tour in the Spring and Summer of 1976. It is compiled from performances at Madison Square Garden in New York City (May 25, 1976), the Seattle Kingdome in Seattle, WA (June 10, 1976) and The Forum in Los Angeles, CA (June 22 - 23, 1976). The concert is first released in abridged form in October of 1981 on the Betamax video format, then in its entirety on VHS, Laserdisc and CED Videodisc in 1982. In 2007, a seven song excerpt from the film is released on DVD, when McCartney includes it on the video anthology “The McCartney Years”. The complete theatrically released version of the film is finally released on DVD and Blu-Ray disc in June of 2013, a month after the reissue of the “Wings Over America” album.

thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog