Regardless they soldiered on with Paul playing drums and percussion in addition to bass and a lot of lead guitar. Paul would have to record some of these from memory.
#PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS BAND ON THE RUN FULL#
The thieves got their valuables and a bag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and cassettes that had the demos for songs for this album. They soon found out that the studio was sub-par and run down including a broken recording console and an outdated eight track tape machine, and the country was on edge, dangerous, and being run by a military dictatorship.Īnd a few mishaps occurred including early on when Paul and Linda went for an unadvised nighttime walk and got robbed at knife point. So with no time to replace them Paul, Linda, and the other Denny left to Lagos with their families, Beatles’ recording engineer Geoff Emerick, and a couple roadies. To add to the troubles guitarist Henry McCullough quit during album rehearsals and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the day before they were to leave. However they mistakenly chose Apapa, Lagos Nigeria without realizing it had recently come out of a civil war and was in turmoil. They asked their record company for a list of their international studios and decided Africa would be perfect. So after a successful UK tour, Wings, the band he put together with his wife Linda on keyboards and backing vocals, former Moody Blues guitarist/pianist/vocalist Denny Laine, Irish guitarist Henry McCullough, and American drummer Denny Seiwell, wanted to record their next album in an exotic location to inspire creativity while also getting a little rest and relaxation. The album, “Red Rose Speedway” which came out earlier that year did really well but was still considered mediocre by many critics. It was about three years after The Beatles’ break up and many felt that Paul hadn’t really regained the artistic heights of his work with The Beatles. Released in early December of 1973 on Apple/EMI/and Capitol Records this is the third self-produced studio album by Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings after his two solo albums. MUSIC HISTORY WRITTEN BY HEAD WRITER DJ MORTY COYLE:
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