And how had they prepared it for such an epic journey? Simply plonked it in a loose-fitting cardboard box and put two of those large bubble “fillers” inside tho make up the volume. It’s a fragile vinyl double record that needed to travel from the United Kingdom half-way ’round the world to Australia. It was, to put it mildly, pathetically packaged up for such a long journey in the post. For example, when I ordered The Fireman “ Electronic Arguments” LP (direct from the official McCartney website back in 2008). It’s not the first time I’ve had vinyl records in particular arrive in a less than optimum state. They both came together, packaged in the same big cardboard box – and I have to say it was pretty beaten up by the time it got here to Australia.Īs I opened it up I was really worried about what I might find inside. His video outings would improve in the 80's with "Pipes Of Peace" and "Say Say Say" to name but two but this is okay for starters.Finally, my copies of “ Band On The Run” – in both the 2 disc vinyl edition and the deluxe 4 CD bound-book special edition – have arrived from the United States. Obviously for Macca fans only, this is a reasonably engaging half-hour of decent songs reasonab!y staged. Only the bloated hyped-up superstar sessions for the bloated Rockestra and Denny Laine's weak "Again And Again Again" really let the side down. The best song is the set opener "Getting Closer" a blistering slice of power pop hindered by a fake live audience backing track, while other medium-lights are the attempted heavy-weight nonsense rocker "Old Siam Sir", the punk-ish (he wishes) "Spin It On", the 30's pastiche "Baby's Request" with the group in Army fatigues, the insipid ballad "Love Awake" to a wintry castle backdrop and the pristine synth-pop of "Arrow Through Me". Not that the videos are world-class, Michael Jackson certainly needn't lose sleep, mostly just showing Paul and the group in different settings miming to the recorded track.
The top and tail of this video set takes off from the record's album sleeve with the group, including new members guitarist Lawrence Juber and drummer Steve Holly, meandering to an observation deck on some sort of spaceship which silently opens and closes after the selected videos play below.
The album wasn't hugely successful on initial release although it did make the top 10 in the UK and US, but I think it's an okay album and somewhat underrated without being close to his post-Beatles best "Band On The Run". To promote what turned out to be the final album bearing the Wings moniker, (the group imploded in the wake of McCartney's drug bust in Japan), Paul McCartney, just because he can, assembled this mini video-album of a selection of tracks from the set.
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