Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,117 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wings_1976.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Wings in 1976. From left to right: Joe English, [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Denny Laine]], Linda [=McCartney=], [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] and [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]].]]
->'''Hypnotic Deprogammer:''' I ''did'' get Paul [=McCartney=] out of Wings.\\
'''Homer:''' You ''idiot''! He was ''[[IAmTheBand the most talented one]]!''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]"
Wings was the first band Music/PaulMcCartney was in after he left Music/TheBeatles. It was active from 1971 to (very) early 1980. Announcements of its disbandment were released in 1981.
The band was created because, at the time, Paul didn't feel like a real musician unless he was playing with a band that he could also tour with; the name for the band came when Paul was praying during the birth of his and Linda's third child, Stella, and an image of wings popped into his head.
Wings is now considered IAmTheBand for Paul [=McCartney=], though he was in denial about it at the time -- enough that many supporting band members did get the occasional song. The core members were Paul [=McCartney=], his wife Linda [=McCartney=], and Denny Laine (best known for this and for being a founding member of Music/TheMoodyBlues, scoring a number one hit with them).
Wings was ''very'' popular in its time, in good part because Paul [=McCartney=] was in it. ''Wings Over America'' -- the only complete Wings live album -- was also a hot seller. It was also a successful touring band despite technical difficulties (notably Linda's singing) and Paul's reluctance to sing Beatles songs. The first Wings tour had no Beatles songs at all, even though that meant there wasn't much material to work with. By ''Wings Over America'', there was about one record-side worth -- still considered avoiding Beatles songs at the time, and ''much'' fewer than he does now, but objectively respectable when you consider how many hits Wings had between 1972 and 1976...
Paul [=McCartney=] sang lead vocals (usually) and played bass. He also played drums when the band was reduced to three members. (This happened twice.)
Linda [=McCartney=] was in Wings because Paul wanted her there. She sang back-up vocals (nearly everyone did) and played keyboards. In the beginning, she was no good at all -- which was unfortunate because, even when touring random colleges in the beginning, Wings hit the spotlight. Eventually, her singing became more tolerable -- at the band's peak, she was very good at Moog synthesizer. This may seem silly, but Wings used a lot of synthesizer. And the band usually used it well. Plus using a synth back then was no breeze. They were all analogue, so no pre-sets and often just getting sound was enough of a challenge.
Denny Laine was the third member, the continuity link, and the rhythm guitarist. Lead guitar was the other floating position.
The band dissolved quietly but violently in 1980. This is partly because of a drug bust in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} that sent Paul to prison for nine days and was subsequently deported back to Europe (he got off easy)[[note]]Paul was facing a seven year prison sentence, the typical fare for marijuana posession in Japan. For unknown reasons (though his celebrity status may have had something to do with it), the authorities simply gave him a slap on the wrist instead[[/note]], ending Wings's touring days right then, and partly because of personal problems between the [=McCartneys=] and Laine.
Wings had many hit singles, hitting the top of the US charts a total of five times between 1973 and 1978. Surprisingly, they reached the top spot in Paul's native Britain just once -- with "Mull Of Kintyre", the best selling non-charity single in UK history.
----
!!Principal members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
* Geoff Britton - drums, percussion (1974-1975)
* Joe English - drums, percussion, backing and lead vocals (1975-1977)
* '''[[Music/TheMoodyBlues Brian Hines (Denny Laine)]]''' - guitar, bass, backing and lead vocals, piano, keyboard, percussion, harmonica, flageolet, recorder (1971-1981) [[note]]Laine has also toured with a band called Wings. This is not considered the same band[[/note]]
* Steve Holly - drums, percussion, vocals (1978-1981)
* Laurence Juber - guitar, synthesizer, vocals (1978-1981)
* '''Linda [=McCartney=]''' - keyboard, piano, backing and lead vocals, percussion, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer (1971-1981, died 1998)
* '''[[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]]''' - lead vocals, bass, piano, guitar, keyboard, percussion, mellotron, celeste, synthesizer, double bass, drums, violin, flageolet, concertina, harpsichord (1971-1981)
* [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] - guitar, backing and lead vocals, bass (1974-1977, died 1979)
* Henry [=McCullough=] - guitar, vocals, percussion (1972-1973)
* Denny Seiwell - drums, percussion (1971-1973)
----
!!Studio and Live Discography:
* 1971 - ''Wild Life''
* 1973 - ''Red Rose Speedway''
* 1973 - ''Music/BandOnTheRun''
* 1975 - ''Venus and Mars''
* 1976 - ''Wings at the Speed of Sound''
* 1976 - ''Wings Over America''
* 1978 - ''London Town''
* 1979 - ''Back to the Egg''
----
!!'''Silly Trope Songs''':
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''B'''ig '''B'''arn '''B'''ed from ''Red Rose Speedway'' (as well as the album title itself).
* ArtisticStimulation: The [=McCartneys=] were notorious marijuana smokers, which led directly to their rift with [[UsefulNotes/StraightEdge Geoff Britton]].
* AwardBaitSong: "With a Little Luck" fits so much of the checklist for this, it's scary. Big-name star, lots of synth, inspirational lyrics, arrangement that builds to a big climax. The only thing disqualifying it is that it wasn't composed for a movie, yet it ended up getting used in the closing credits of one anyway (The 1979 Creator/FarrahFawcett vehicle ''Sunburn'').
* TheBigGuy: A fitness buff and a black belt, Britton qualified even more than most drummers. In his drumming alone, he effortlessly used sticks considered too heavy for [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon.]]
* BluebirdOfHappiness: "Bluebird".
* CallBack: "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", the last song on the ''Band on the Run'' album, ends with a reprise of the chorus from "Band on the Run".
** The song right before it, "Picasso's Last Words", contains brief snippets of "Jet" and "Mrs. Vanderbilt".
** ''Wings Over America'' has six [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs, a [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Moody Blues]] hit from Laine's tenure, and Paul's solo song "Maybe I'm Amazed". The last of these is now arguably Wings' SignatureSong.
* CanonDiscontinuity: "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" which was pulled off ''Wingspan'' because a car bombing happened in London shortly before that album's release, leaving an empty space exactly the size of that song ''on the "Hits" disc.'' As of 2015 it has only been re-released on the 1993 remaster of Wild Life -- which was not available in the United States and is now out of print.
* ControlFreak: Paul, although strangely less so than his days with Music/TheBeatles.
* ContinuityNod: The character of Sailor Sam from "Band on the Run" was first mentioned in the single "Helen Wheels".
* CoverVersion:
** The ''Series/{{Crossroads}}'' theme: an instrumental from the finale of ''Venus & Mars''; "Crossroads" was a British TV soap opera, and was included on this album as a commentary on "the type of 'Lonely Old People' who watch those kinds of shows", it nonetheless went on to be used later over the closing credits of the show itself.
** "Go Now": by Denny Laine on ''Wings Over America''; from ''The Magnificent Moodies'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues (back when Mike Pinder and Denny were its leaders), it was their first, earliest hit as a single, and itself a cover (the original was by American {{Soul}} singer Bessie Banks).
** "Richard Cory": another cover by Denny Laine from the live ''Wings Over America'' album, this one of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's adaptation of the poem of the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
** ''Holly Days'': credited as a Denny Laine solo album, but actually a Wings album in all but name (with Paul & Linda as the only other personnel on it); this one is an album of Music/BuddyHolly covers.
** "Love Is Strange": on the ''Wild Life'' album.
** "Mary Had A Little Lamb": a non-LP single...seriously! And it was the A-side too!
** "Sea Breezes": by Paul's brother, Michael, as Mike [=McGear=] on his ''[=McGear=]'' album; another Wings album in all but name, this one features a cover of a cut from Music/RoxyMusic's [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut album]].
** "Walking In The Park With Eloise": an instrumental, non-LP single "written" by Paul's father (who only claimed to have "made it up"), recorded in Nashville (with Chet Akins and Floyd Cramer) and released under the pseudonym The Country Hams.
* DreadfulMusician: Linda was notable for being a rare real life version of HollywoodToneDeaf. However, she was decent with a Moog and her voice gradually evolved to tolerable levels.
* {{Epic Rocking}}:
** ''Wild Life'' has the title track at 6:48 and “Some People Never Know” at 6:35.
** ''Red Rose Speedway'' has “Little Lamb Dragonfly” at 6:20 and the medley of “Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut” at 11:14.
** “Beware My Love” from ''Wings at the Speed of Sound'' is 6:28.
** “Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” from ''London Town'' is 6:27.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two in the official discography, and one (''All The Best!'') that isn't.
* GriefSong: "Little Lamb Dragonfly" on ''Red Rose Speedway.''
* HappyRain: "Mamunia"
* {{Homage}}: "Let Me Roll It" (the original) is considered to be one to John Lennon.
* IAmTheBand: Paul [=McCartney=], to a point many people call the band "Paul [=McCartney=] & Wings". To Paul's credit, he struggled against this trope, but it never took, and eventually he gave up. His 1987 greatest hits compilation ''All the Best!'' is about half Wings, including huge hits like "Band on the Run" and "Jet", but it was attributed to Paul [=McCartney=] as a solo artist.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Some Wings songs are built off this.
* InsultBackfire: This trope is what makes "Silly Love Songs" more than ''just'' one of Paul's SillyLoveSongs.
** When defending Linda from critics of Linda's keyboard playing as "one-finger(ed)", Paul corrected them thusly:
--->"I taught Linda the basics of the keyboard ... She took a couple of lessons and learned some bluesy things ... she did very well and made it look easier than it was ... The critics would say, 'She's not really playing' or 'Look at her—she's playing with one finger.' But what they didn't know is that sometimes she was playing a thing called a [[http://www.vintagesynth.com/moog/moog.php Minimoog]], which could only be played with one finger. It was monophonic."
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hi, Hi, Hi."
* InTheStyleOf: "Let Me Roll It", amusingly InTheStyleOf Music/JohnLennon. Perhaps it describes [[AnswerSong how Paul can sleep?]]
* LampshadeHanging: "You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs...."
* MoodWhiplash: If all you know are the SillyLoveSongs, then you may get surprised by the more experimental album tracks. For example, don't purchase ''Red Rose Speedway'' expecting all the songs to sound like "My Love."
* PowerBallad: Still an UnbuiltTrope at the time, so "My Love" is a little too lush-sounding to really qualify, but it fits the standard template well, especially the guitar solo.
* ProtestSong: "Give UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} Back to the Irish", a single which was released at the height of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and banned by Creator/TheBBC.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Band On The Run", while [[WordSaladLyrics rather incoherent]], references its own TroubledProduction. "Letting Go" is about Linda [=McCartney's=] desire to get back to life outside the band.
* RevolvingDoorBand: The truth behind the "IAmTheBand" rumors.
* ShoutOut:
** "Call Me Back Again": from the live ''Wings Over America'' album; "I called your name, ''John''...(emphasis ours)".
** "Rock Show": from ''Venus & Mars''; "looks a lot like the one used by [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]...", "at the Concertgebouw", "Madison Square", etc. Heck, the whole song is practically one big ShoutOut to almost everybody...including Creator/MarvelComics super-villain (and soon-to-be featured-in-a-Wings-song), the Titanium Man: "In my green metal suit, I'm preparing to shoot up the city".
** That song, from the same album, being "ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and [[ComicBook/IronMan Titanium Man]]", which contains shout outs to... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[note]]And The Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride[[/note]].
* SignatureStyle: Compare late-Beatles music with Paulian lead vocals to Wings hits. There will be some similarities. Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said ''"if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."'' "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
* SillyLoveSongs: TropeNamer (although the song itself [[DiscussedTrope discusses the trope]], and most of the singles.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Inverted: It is NOT "The Wings".
* StageName: "Denny Laine" was born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, with no readily-available reason for his rather mundane stage name (ie: "Billy Fury" or "Rory Storm" or "Music/RingoStarr", etc).
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The non-Paul songs.
** ''Wings At The Speed Of Sound'' is notable in that every band member had at least one song on the album. Denny Laine sings "The Note You Never Wrote" and "Time To Hide". Jimmy [=McCulloch=] sings "Wino Junko". Joe English sings "Must Do Something About It". Linda sings "Cook Of The House".
** ''Venus And Mars'': "Medicine Jar", sung by Jimmy [=McCulloch=], and "Spirits Of Ancient Egypt", sung by Denny Laine.
** ''London Town'': "Children, Children" and "Deliver Your Children", sung by Denny Laine.
** "''Seaside Woman''": A non-LP single written and sung by Linda; released under the pseudonym Suzy & The Red Stripes.
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Wild Life'', ''Back to the Egg''
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Band On The Run", "Mamunia". "Jet" minus the "woo-oo" sounds.
* WestminsterChimes: The intro to "Let 'Em In".
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" (which Paul himself characterized as having "silly words") and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
----
[[caption-width-right:350:Wings in 1976. From left to right: Joe English, [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Denny Laine]], Linda [=McCartney=], [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] and [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]].]]
->'''Hypnotic Deprogammer:''' I ''did'' get Paul [=McCartney=] out of Wings.\\
'''Homer:''' You ''idiot''! He was ''[[IAmTheBand the most talented one]]!''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]"
Wings was the first band Music/PaulMcCartney was in after he left Music/TheBeatles. It was active from 1971 to (very) early 1980. Announcements of its disbandment were released in 1981.
The band was created because, at the time, Paul didn't feel like a real musician unless he was playing with a band that he could also tour with; the name for the band came when Paul was praying during the birth of his and Linda's third child, Stella, and an image of wings popped into his head.
Wings is now considered IAmTheBand for Paul [=McCartney=], though he was in denial about it at the time -- enough that many supporting band members did get the occasional song. The core members were Paul [=McCartney=], his wife Linda [=McCartney=], and Denny Laine (best known for this and for being a founding member of Music/TheMoodyBlues, scoring a number one hit with them).
Wings was ''very'' popular in its time, in good part because Paul [=McCartney=] was in it. ''Wings Over America'' -- the only complete Wings live album -- was also a hot seller. It was also a successful touring band despite technical difficulties (notably Linda's singing) and Paul's reluctance to sing Beatles songs. The first Wings tour had no Beatles songs at all, even though that meant there wasn't much material to work with. By ''Wings Over America'', there was about one record-side worth -- still considered avoiding Beatles songs at the time, and ''much'' fewer than he does now, but objectively respectable when you consider how many hits Wings had between 1972 and 1976...
Paul [=McCartney=] sang lead vocals (usually) and played bass. He also played drums when the band was reduced to three members. (This happened twice.)
Linda [=McCartney=] was in Wings because Paul wanted her there. She sang back-up vocals (nearly everyone did) and played keyboards. In the beginning, she was no good at all -- which was unfortunate because, even when touring random colleges in the beginning, Wings hit the spotlight. Eventually, her singing became more tolerable -- at the band's peak, she was very good at Moog synthesizer. This may seem silly, but Wings used a lot of synthesizer. And the band usually used it well. Plus using a synth back then was no breeze. They were all analogue, so no pre-sets and often just getting sound was enough of a challenge.
Denny Laine was the third member, the continuity link, and the rhythm guitarist. Lead guitar was the other floating position.
The band dissolved quietly but violently in 1980. This is partly because of a drug bust in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} that sent Paul to prison for nine days and was subsequently deported back to Europe (he got off easy)[[note]]Paul was facing a seven year prison sentence, the typical fare for marijuana posession in Japan. For unknown reasons (though his celebrity status may have had something to do with it), the authorities simply gave him a slap on the wrist instead[[/note]], ending Wings's touring days right then, and partly because of personal problems between the [=McCartneys=] and Laine.
Wings had many hit singles, hitting the top of the US charts a total of five times between 1973 and 1978. Surprisingly, they reached the top spot in Paul's native Britain just once -- with "Mull Of Kintyre", the best selling non-charity single in UK history.
----
!!Principal members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
* Geoff Britton - drums, percussion (1974-1975)
* Joe English - drums, percussion, backing and lead vocals (1975-1977)
* '''[[Music/TheMoodyBlues Brian Hines (Denny Laine)]]''' - guitar, bass, backing and lead vocals, piano, keyboard, percussion, harmonica, flageolet, recorder (1971-1981) [[note]]Laine has also toured with a band called Wings. This is not considered the same band[[/note]]
* Steve Holly - drums, percussion, vocals (1978-1981)
* Laurence Juber - guitar, synthesizer, vocals (1978-1981)
* '''Linda [=McCartney=]''' - keyboard, piano, backing and lead vocals, percussion, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer (1971-1981, died 1998)
* '''[[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]]''' - lead vocals, bass, piano, guitar, keyboard, percussion, mellotron, celeste, synthesizer, double bass, drums, violin, flageolet, concertina, harpsichord (1971-1981)
* [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] - guitar, backing and lead vocals, bass (1974-1977, died 1979)
* Henry [=McCullough=] - guitar, vocals, percussion (1972-1973)
* Denny Seiwell - drums, percussion (1971-1973)
----
!!Studio and Live Discography:
* 1971 - ''Wild Life''
* 1973 - ''Red Rose Speedway''
* 1973 - ''Music/BandOnTheRun''
* 1975 - ''Venus and Mars''
* 1976 - ''Wings at the Speed of Sound''
* 1976 - ''Wings Over America''
* 1978 - ''London Town''
* 1979 - ''Back to the Egg''
----
!!'''Silly Trope Songs''':
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''B'''ig '''B'''arn '''B'''ed from ''Red Rose Speedway'' (as well as the album title itself).
* ArtisticStimulation: The [=McCartneys=] were notorious marijuana smokers, which led directly to their rift with [[UsefulNotes/StraightEdge Geoff Britton]].
* AwardBaitSong: "With a Little Luck" fits so much of the checklist for this, it's scary. Big-name star, lots of synth, inspirational lyrics, arrangement that builds to a big climax. The only thing disqualifying it is that it wasn't composed for a movie, yet it ended up getting used in the closing credits of one anyway (The 1979 Creator/FarrahFawcett vehicle ''Sunburn'').
* TheBigGuy: A fitness buff and a black belt, Britton qualified even more than most drummers. In his drumming alone, he effortlessly used sticks considered too heavy for [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon.]]
* BluebirdOfHappiness: "Bluebird".
* CallBack: "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", the last song on the ''Band on the Run'' album, ends with a reprise of the chorus from "Band on the Run".
** The song right before it, "Picasso's Last Words", contains brief snippets of "Jet" and "Mrs. Vanderbilt".
** ''Wings Over America'' has six [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs, a [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Moody Blues]] hit from Laine's tenure, and Paul's solo song "Maybe I'm Amazed". The last of these is now arguably Wings' SignatureSong.
* CanonDiscontinuity: "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" which was pulled off ''Wingspan'' because a car bombing happened in London shortly before that album's release, leaving an empty space exactly the size of that song ''on the "Hits" disc.'' As of 2015 it has only been re-released on the 1993 remaster of Wild Life -- which was not available in the United States and is now out of print.
* ControlFreak: Paul, although strangely less so than his days with Music/TheBeatles.
* ContinuityNod: The character of Sailor Sam from "Band on the Run" was first mentioned in the single "Helen Wheels".
* CoverVersion:
** The ''Series/{{Crossroads}}'' theme: an instrumental from the finale of ''Venus & Mars''; "Crossroads" was a British TV soap opera, and was included on this album as a commentary on "the type of 'Lonely Old People' who watch those kinds of shows", it nonetheless went on to be used later over the closing credits of the show itself.
** "Go Now": by Denny Laine on ''Wings Over America''; from ''The Magnificent Moodies'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues (back when Mike Pinder and Denny were its leaders), it was their first, earliest hit as a single, and itself a cover (the original was by American {{Soul}} singer Bessie Banks).
** "Richard Cory": another cover by Denny Laine from the live ''Wings Over America'' album, this one of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's adaptation of the poem of the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
** ''Holly Days'': credited as a Denny Laine solo album, but actually a Wings album in all but name (with Paul & Linda as the only other personnel on it); this one is an album of Music/BuddyHolly covers.
** "Love Is Strange": on the ''Wild Life'' album.
** "Mary Had A Little Lamb": a non-LP single...seriously! And it was the A-side too!
** "Sea Breezes": by Paul's brother, Michael, as Mike [=McGear=] on his ''[=McGear=]'' album; another Wings album in all but name, this one features a cover of a cut from Music/RoxyMusic's [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut album]].
** "Walking In The Park With Eloise": an instrumental, non-LP single "written" by Paul's father (who only claimed to have "made it up"), recorded in Nashville (with Chet Akins and Floyd Cramer) and released under the pseudonym The Country Hams.
* DreadfulMusician: Linda was notable for being a rare real life version of HollywoodToneDeaf. However, she was decent with a Moog and her voice gradually evolved to tolerable levels.
* {{Epic Rocking}}:
** ''Wild Life'' has the title track at 6:48 and “Some People Never Know” at 6:35.
** ''Red Rose Speedway'' has “Little Lamb Dragonfly” at 6:20 and the medley of “Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut” at 11:14.
** “Beware My Love” from ''Wings at the Speed of Sound'' is 6:28.
** “Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” from ''London Town'' is 6:27.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two in the official discography, and one (''All The Best!'') that isn't.
* GriefSong: "Little Lamb Dragonfly" on ''Red Rose Speedway.''
* HappyRain: "Mamunia"
* {{Homage}}: "Let Me Roll It" (the original) is considered to be one to John Lennon.
* IAmTheBand: Paul [=McCartney=], to a point many people call the band "Paul [=McCartney=] & Wings". To Paul's credit, he struggled against this trope, but it never took, and eventually he gave up. His 1987 greatest hits compilation ''All the Best!'' is about half Wings, including huge hits like "Band on the Run" and "Jet", but it was attributed to Paul [=McCartney=] as a solo artist.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Some Wings songs are built off this.
* InsultBackfire: This trope is what makes "Silly Love Songs" more than ''just'' one of Paul's SillyLoveSongs.
** When defending Linda from critics of Linda's keyboard playing as "one-finger(ed)", Paul corrected them thusly:
--->"I taught Linda the basics of the keyboard ... She took a couple of lessons and learned some bluesy things ... she did very well and made it look easier than it was ... The critics would say, 'She's not really playing' or 'Look at her—she's playing with one finger.' But what they didn't know is that sometimes she was playing a thing called a [[http://www.vintagesynth.com/moog/moog.php Minimoog]], which could only be played with one finger. It was monophonic."
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hi, Hi, Hi."
* InTheStyleOf: "Let Me Roll It", amusingly InTheStyleOf Music/JohnLennon. Perhaps it describes [[AnswerSong how Paul can sleep?]]
* LampshadeHanging: "You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs...."
* MoodWhiplash: If all you know are the SillyLoveSongs, then you may get surprised by the more experimental album tracks. For example, don't purchase ''Red Rose Speedway'' expecting all the songs to sound like "My Love."
* PowerBallad: Still an UnbuiltTrope at the time, so "My Love" is a little too lush-sounding to really qualify, but it fits the standard template well, especially the guitar solo.
* ProtestSong: "Give UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} Back to the Irish", a single which was released at the height of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and banned by Creator/TheBBC.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Band On The Run", while [[WordSaladLyrics rather incoherent]], references its own TroubledProduction. "Letting Go" is about Linda [=McCartney's=] desire to get back to life outside the band.
* RevolvingDoorBand: The truth behind the "IAmTheBand" rumors.
* ShoutOut:
** "Call Me Back Again": from the live ''Wings Over America'' album; "I called your name, ''John''...(emphasis ours)".
** "Rock Show": from ''Venus & Mars''; "looks a lot like the one used by [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]...", "at the Concertgebouw", "Madison Square", etc. Heck, the whole song is practically one big ShoutOut to almost everybody...including Creator/MarvelComics super-villain (and soon-to-be featured-in-a-Wings-song), the Titanium Man: "In my green metal suit, I'm preparing to shoot up the city".
** That song, from the same album, being "ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and [[ComicBook/IronMan Titanium Man]]", which contains shout outs to... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[note]]And The Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride[[/note]].
* SignatureStyle: Compare late-Beatles music with Paulian lead vocals to Wings hits. There will be some similarities. Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said ''"if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."'' "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
* SillyLoveSongs: TropeNamer (although the song itself [[DiscussedTrope discusses the trope]], and most of the singles.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Inverted: It is NOT "The Wings".
* StageName: "Denny Laine" was born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, with no readily-available reason for his rather mundane stage name (ie: "Billy Fury" or "Rory Storm" or "Music/RingoStarr", etc).
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The non-Paul songs.
** ''Wings At The Speed Of Sound'' is notable in that every band member had at least one song on the album. Denny Laine sings "The Note You Never Wrote" and "Time To Hide". Jimmy [=McCulloch=] sings "Wino Junko". Joe English sings "Must Do Something About It". Linda sings "Cook Of The House".
** ''Venus And Mars'': "Medicine Jar", sung by Jimmy [=McCulloch=], and "Spirits Of Ancient Egypt", sung by Denny Laine.
** ''London Town'': "Children, Children" and "Deliver Your Children", sung by Denny Laine.
** "''Seaside Woman''": A non-LP single written and sung by Linda; released under the pseudonym Suzy & The Red Stripes.
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Wild Life'', ''Back to the Egg''
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Band On The Run", "Mamunia". "Jet" minus the "woo-oo" sounds.
* WestminsterChimes: The intro to "Let 'Em In".
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" (which Paul himself characterized as having "silly words") and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
----
to:
[[caption-width-right:350:Wings in 1976. From left to right: Joe English, [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Denny Laine]], Linda [=McCartney=], [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] and [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]].]]
->'''Hypnotic Deprogammer:''' I ''did'' get Paul [=McCartney=] out of Wings.\\
'''Homer:''' You ''idiot''! He was ''[[IAmTheBand the most talented one]]!''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]"
Wings was the first band Music/PaulMcCartney was in after he left Music/TheBeatles. It was active from 1971 to (very) early 1980. Announcements of its disbandment were released in 1981.
The band was created because, at the time, Paul didn't feel like a real musician unless he was playing with a band that he could also tour with; the name for the band came when Paul was praying during the birth of his and Linda's third child, Stella, and an image of wings popped into his head.
Wings is now considered IAmTheBand for Paul [=McCartney=], though he was in denial about it at the time -- enough that many supporting band members did get the occasional song. The core members were Paul [=McCartney=], his wife Linda [=McCartney=], and Denny Laine (best known for this and for being a founding member of Music/TheMoodyBlues, scoring a number one hit with them).
Wings was ''very'' popular in its time, in good part because Paul [=McCartney=] was in it. ''Wings Over America'' -- the only complete Wings live album -- was also a hot seller. It was also a successful touring band despite technical difficulties (notably Linda's singing) and Paul's reluctance to sing Beatles songs. The first Wings tour had no Beatles songs at all, even though that meant there wasn't much material to work with. By ''Wings Over America'', there was about one record-side worth -- still considered avoiding Beatles songs at the time, and ''much'' fewer than he does now, but objectively respectable when you consider how many hits Wings had between 1972 and 1976...
Paul [=McCartney=] sang lead vocals (usually) and played bass. He also played drums when the band was reduced to three members. (This happened twice.)
Linda [=McCartney=] was in Wings because Paul wanted her there. She sang back-up vocals (nearly everyone did) and played keyboards. In the beginning, she was no good at all -- which was unfortunate because, even when touring random colleges in the beginning, Wings hit the spotlight. Eventually, her singing became more tolerable -- at the band's peak, she was very good at Moog synthesizer. This may seem silly, but Wings used a lot of synthesizer. And the band usually used it well. Plus using a synth back then was no breeze. They were all analogue, so no pre-sets and often just getting sound was enough of a challenge.
Denny Laine was the third member, the continuity link, and the rhythm guitarist. Lead guitar was the other floating position.
The band dissolved quietly but violently in 1980. This is partly because of a drug bust in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} that sent Paul to prison for nine days and was subsequently deported back to Europe (he got off easy)[[note]]Paul was facing a seven year prison sentence, the typical fare for marijuana posession in Japan. For unknown reasons (though his celebrity status may have had something to do with it), the authorities simply gave him a slap on the wrist instead[[/note]], ending Wings's touring days right then, and partly because of personal problems between the [=McCartneys=] and Laine.
Wings had many hit singles, hitting the top of the US charts a total of five times between 1973 and 1978. Surprisingly, they reached the top spot in Paul's native Britain just once -- with "Mull Of Kintyre", the best selling non-charity single in UK history.
----
!!Principal members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
* Geoff Britton - drums, percussion (1974-1975)
* Joe English - drums, percussion, backing and lead vocals (1975-1977)
* '''[[Music/TheMoodyBlues Brian Hines (Denny Laine)]]''' - guitar, bass, backing and lead vocals, piano, keyboard, percussion, harmonica, flageolet, recorder (1971-1981) [[note]]Laine has also toured with a band called Wings. This is not considered the same band[[/note]]
* Steve Holly - drums, percussion, vocals (1978-1981)
* Laurence Juber - guitar, synthesizer, vocals (1978-1981)
* '''Linda [=McCartney=]''' - keyboard, piano, backing and lead vocals, percussion, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer (1971-1981, died 1998)
* '''[[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney]]''' - lead vocals, bass, piano, guitar, keyboard, percussion, mellotron, celeste, synthesizer, double bass, drums, violin, flageolet, concertina, harpsichord (1971-1981)
* [[Music/TheSmallFaces Jimmy McCulloch]] - guitar, backing and lead vocals, bass (1974-1977, died 1979)
* Henry [=McCullough=] - guitar, vocals, percussion (1972-1973)
* Denny Seiwell - drums, percussion (1971-1973)
----
!!Studio and Live Discography:
* 1971 - ''Wild Life''
* 1973 - ''Red Rose Speedway''
* 1973 - ''Music/BandOnTheRun''
* 1975 - ''Venus and Mars''
* 1976 - ''Wings at the Speed of Sound''
* 1976 - ''Wings Over America''
* 1978 - ''London Town''
* 1979 - ''Back to the Egg''
----
!!'''Silly Trope Songs''':
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: '''B'''ig '''B'''arn '''B'''ed from ''Red Rose Speedway'' (as well as the album title itself).
* ArtisticStimulation: The [=McCartneys=] were notorious marijuana smokers, which led directly to their rift with [[UsefulNotes/StraightEdge Geoff Britton]].
* AwardBaitSong: "With a Little Luck" fits so much of the checklist for this, it's scary. Big-name star, lots of synth, inspirational lyrics, arrangement that builds to a big climax. The only thing disqualifying it is that it wasn't composed for a movie, yet it ended up getting used in the closing credits of one anyway (The 1979 Creator/FarrahFawcett vehicle ''Sunburn'').
* TheBigGuy: A fitness buff and a black belt, Britton qualified even more than most drummers. In his drumming alone, he effortlessly used sticks considered too heavy for [[Music/TheWho Keith Moon.]]
* BluebirdOfHappiness: "Bluebird".
* CallBack: "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five", the last song on the ''Band on the Run'' album, ends with a reprise of the chorus from "Band on the Run".
** The song right before it, "Picasso's Last Words", contains brief snippets of "Jet" and "Mrs. Vanderbilt".
** ''Wings Over America'' has six [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] songs, a [[Music/TheMoodyBlues Moody Blues]] hit from Laine's tenure, and Paul's solo song "Maybe I'm Amazed". The last of these is now arguably Wings' SignatureSong.
* CanonDiscontinuity: "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" which was pulled off ''Wingspan'' because a car bombing happened in London shortly before that album's release, leaving an empty space exactly the size of that song ''on the "Hits" disc.'' As of 2015 it has only been re-released on the 1993 remaster of Wild Life -- which was not available in the United States and is now out of print.
* ControlFreak: Paul, although strangely less so than his days with Music/TheBeatles.
* ContinuityNod: The character of Sailor Sam from "Band on the Run" was first mentioned in the single "Helen Wheels".
* CoverVersion:
** The ''Series/{{Crossroads}}'' theme: an instrumental from the finale of ''Venus & Mars''; "Crossroads" was a British TV soap opera, and was included on this album as a commentary on "the type of 'Lonely Old People' who watch those kinds of shows", it nonetheless went on to be used later over the closing credits of the show itself.
** "Go Now": by Denny Laine on ''Wings Over America''; from ''The Magnificent Moodies'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues (back when Mike Pinder and Denny were its leaders), it was their first, earliest hit as a single, and itself a cover (the original was by American {{Soul}} singer Bessie Banks).
** "Richard Cory": another cover by Denny Laine from the live ''Wings Over America'' album, this one of Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's adaptation of the poem of the same name by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
** ''Holly Days'': credited as a Denny Laine solo album, but actually a Wings album in all but name (with Paul & Linda as the only other personnel on it); this one is an album of Music/BuddyHolly covers.
** "Love Is Strange": on the ''Wild Life'' album.
** "Mary Had A Little Lamb": a non-LP single...seriously! And it was the A-side too!
** "Sea Breezes": by Paul's brother, Michael, as Mike [=McGear=] on his ''[=McGear=]'' album; another Wings album in all but name, this one features a cover of a cut from Music/RoxyMusic's [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut album]].
** "Walking In The Park With Eloise": an instrumental, non-LP single "written" by Paul's father (who only claimed to have "made it up"), recorded in Nashville (with Chet Akins and Floyd Cramer) and released under the pseudonym The Country Hams.
* DreadfulMusician: Linda was notable for being a rare real life version of HollywoodToneDeaf. However, she was decent with a Moog and her voice gradually evolved to tolerable levels.
* {{Epic Rocking}}:
** ''Wild Life'' has the title track at 6:48 and “Some People Never Know” at 6:35.
** ''Red Rose Speedway'' has “Little Lamb Dragonfly” at 6:20 and the medley of “Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut” at 11:14.
** “Beware My Love” from ''Wings at the Speed of Sound'' is 6:28.
** “Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” from ''London Town'' is 6:27.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two in the official discography, and one (''All The Best!'') that isn't.
* GriefSong: "Little Lamb Dragonfly" on ''Red Rose Speedway.''
* HappyRain: "Mamunia"
* {{Homage}}: "Let Me Roll It" (the original) is considered to be one to John Lennon.
* IAmTheBand: Paul [=McCartney=], to a point many people call the band "Paul [=McCartney=] & Wings". To Paul's credit, he struggled against this trope, but it never took, and eventually he gave up. His 1987 greatest hits compilation ''All the Best!'' is about half Wings, including huge hits like "Band on the Run" and "Jet", but it was attributed to Paul [=McCartney=] as a solo artist.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Some Wings songs are built off this.
* InsultBackfire: This trope is what makes "Silly Love Songs" more than ''just'' one of Paul's SillyLoveSongs.
** When defending Linda from critics of Linda's keyboard playing as "one-finger(ed)", Paul corrected them thusly:
--->"I taught Linda the basics of the keyboard ... She took a couple of lessons and learned some bluesy things ... she did very well and made it look easier than it was ... The critics would say, 'She's not really playing' or 'Look at her—she's playing with one finger.' But what they didn't know is that sometimes she was playing a thing called a [[http://www.vintagesynth.com/moog/moog.php Minimoog]], which could only be played with one finger. It was monophonic."
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hi, Hi, Hi."
* InTheStyleOf: "Let Me Roll It", amusingly InTheStyleOf Music/JohnLennon. Perhaps it describes [[AnswerSong how Paul can sleep?]]
* LampshadeHanging: "You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs...."
* MoodWhiplash: If all you know are the SillyLoveSongs, then you may get surprised by the more experimental album tracks. For example, don't purchase ''Red Rose Speedway'' expecting all the songs to sound like "My Love."
* PowerBallad: Still an UnbuiltTrope at the time, so "My Love" is a little too lush-sounding to really qualify, but it fits the standard template well, especially the guitar solo.
* ProtestSong: "Give UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} Back to the Irish", a single which was released at the height of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and banned by Creator/TheBBC.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Band On The Run", while [[WordSaladLyrics rather incoherent]], references its own TroubledProduction. "Letting Go" is about Linda [=McCartney's=] desire to get back to life outside the band.
* RevolvingDoorBand: The truth behind the "IAmTheBand" rumors.
* ShoutOut:
** "Call Me Back Again": from the live ''Wings Over America'' album; "I called your name, ''John''...(emphasis ours)".
** "Rock Show": from ''Venus & Mars''; "looks a lot like the one used by [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]...", "at the Concertgebouw", "Madison Square", etc. Heck, the whole song is practically one big ShoutOut to almost everybody...including Creator/MarvelComics super-villain (and soon-to-be featured-in-a-Wings-song), the Titanium Man: "In my green metal suit, I'm preparing to shoot up the city".
** That song, from the same album, being "ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and [[ComicBook/IronMan Titanium Man]]", which contains shout outs to... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well...]] [[note]]And The Crimson Dynamo came along for the ride[[/note]].
* SignatureStyle: Compare late-Beatles music with Paulian lead vocals to Wings hits. There will be some similarities. Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said ''"if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."'' "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
* SillyLoveSongs: TropeNamer (although the song itself [[DiscussedTrope discusses the trope]], and most of the singles.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Inverted: It is NOT "The Wings".
* StageName: "Denny Laine" was born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, with no readily-available reason for his rather mundane stage name (ie: "Billy Fury" or "Rory Storm" or "Music/RingoStarr", etc).
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: The non-Paul songs.
** ''Wings At The Speed Of Sound'' is notable in that every band member had at least one song on the album. Denny Laine sings "The Note You Never Wrote" and "Time To Hide". Jimmy [=McCulloch=] sings "Wino Junko". Joe English sings "Must Do Something About It". Linda sings "Cook Of The House".
** ''Venus And Mars'': "Medicine Jar", sung by Jimmy [=McCulloch=], and "Spirits Of Ancient Egypt", sung by Denny Laine.
** ''London Town'': "Children, Children" and "Deliver Your Children", sung by Denny Laine.
** "''Seaside Woman''": A non-LP single written and sung by Linda; released under the pseudonym Suzy & The Red Stripes.
* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Wild Life'', ''Back to the Egg''
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Band On The Run", "Mamunia". "Jet" minus the "woo-oo" sounds.
* WestminsterChimes: The intro to "Let 'Em In".
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" (which Paul himself characterized as having "silly words") and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Removal of malformed wicks to GCPTR
Changed line(s) 81 (click to see context) from:
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Deleted line(s) 56 (click to see context) :
* AluminumChristmasTrees: the middle verse of "Junior's Farm" refers to a British political situation that, well, might be incomprehensible to Americans and people born after the '70s. Most likely for this reason, this verse is omitted in Paul's current live performances and on many compilation albums.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 116,117 (click to see context) from:
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
to:
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" (which Paul himself characterized as having "silly words") and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
** "Go Now": by Denny Laine on ''Wings Over America''; from ''The Magnificent Moodies'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues (back when Mike Pinder and Denny were its leaders), it was their first, earliest hit as a single, and also a cover.
to:
** "Go Now": by Denny Laine on ''Wings Over America''; from ''The Magnificent Moodies'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues (back when Mike Pinder and Denny were its leaders), it was their first, earliest hit as a single, and also itself a cover.cover (the original was by American {{Soul}} singer Bessie Banks).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 116,117 (click to see context) from:
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples.
to:
* WordSaladLyrics: Several songs. "Junior's Farm" and "Jet" are particularly prominent examples.
examples. Even the fairly straightforward "With a Little Luck" gives us "The willow turns his back on inclement weather."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 73 (click to see context) from:
** "Mary Had A Little Lamb": a non-LP single...seriously! And it was an A-side, nonetheless!
to:
** "Mary Had A Little Lamb": a non-LP single...seriously! And it was an A-side, nonetheless!the A-side too!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* {{Epic Rocking}}:
** ''Wild Life'' has the title track at 6:48 and “Some People Never Know” at 6:35.
** ''Red Rose Speedway'' has “Little Lamb Dragonfly” at 6:20 and the medley of “Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut” at 11:14.
** “Beware My Love” from ''Wings at the Speed of Sound'' is 6:28.
** “Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” from ''London Town'' is 6:27.
** ''Wild Life'' has the title track at 6:48 and “Some People Never Know” at 6:35.
** ''Red Rose Speedway'' has “Little Lamb Dragonfly” at 6:20 and the medley of “Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut” at 11:14.
** “Beware My Love” from ''Wings at the Speed of Sound'' is 6:28.
** “Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” from ''London Town'' is 6:27.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5 (click to see context) from:
'''Homer:''' You ''idiot''! He was ''[[IAmTheBand the most talented one]]!!!''
to:
'''Homer:''' You ''idiot''! He was ''[[IAmTheBand the most talented one]]!!!''one]]!''
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 99,101 (click to see context) from:
* SignatureStyle: compare late-Beatles music with Paulian lead vocals to Wings hits. There will be some similarities.
** Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said "if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."
** "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
** Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said "if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."
** "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
to:
* SignatureStyle: compare Compare late-Beatles music with Paulian lead vocals to Wings hits. There will be some similarities.
**similarities. Even Music/GeorgeHarrison said "if ''"if you want more Beatles music, listen to Wings."
**"'' "No Words" may be the most Beatlesque song ''any'' of the ex-Beatles ever recorded.[[note]]Oddly enough, Denny Laine wrote most of it.[[/note]]
**
**
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:
The band dissolved quietly but violently in 1980. This is partly because of a drug bust in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} that sent Paul to prison for nine days (he got off easy) and ended Wings's touring days right then, and partly because of personal problems between the [=McCartneys=] and Laine.
to:
The band dissolved quietly but violently in 1980. This is partly because of a drug bust in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} that sent Paul to prison for nine days and was subsequently deported back to Europe (he got off easy) and ended easy)[[note]]Paul was facing a seven year prison sentence, the typical fare for marijuana posession in Japan. For unknown reasons (though his celebrity status may have had something to do with it), the authorities simply gave him a slap on the wrist instead[[/note]], ending Wings's touring days right then, and partly because of personal problems between the [=McCartneys=] and Laine.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 56,57 (click to see context) from:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: the middle verse of "Junior's Farm" refers to a British political situation that, well, might be incomprehensible to Americans and people born after the '70s.
** Most likely for this reason, this verse is omitted in Paul's current live performances and on many compilation albums.
** Most likely for this reason, this verse is omitted in Paul's current live performances and on many compilation albums.
to:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: the middle verse of "Junior's Farm" refers to a British political situation that, well, might be incomprehensible to Americans and people born after the '70s.
**'70s. Most likely for this reason, this verse is omitted in Paul's current live performances and on many compilation albums.
**
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
This trope is no real-life examples.
Changed line(s) 18,19 (click to see context) from:
Linda [=McCartney=] was in Wings because Paul wanted her there. She sang back-up vocals (nearly everyone did) and played keyboards. In the beginning, [[DreadfulMusician she was no good at all]] -- which was unfortunate because, even when touring random colleges in the beginning, Wings hit the spotlight. Eventually, her singing became more tolerable -- at the band's peak, she was very good at Moog synthesizer. This may seem silly, but Wings used a lot of synthesizer. And the band usually used it well. Plus using a synth back then was no breeze. They were all analogue, so no pre-sets and often just getting sound was enough of a challenge.
to:
Linda [=McCartney=] was in Wings because Paul wanted her there. She sang back-up vocals (nearly everyone did) and played keyboards. In the beginning, [[DreadfulMusician she was no good at all]] all -- which was unfortunate because, even when touring random colleges in the beginning, Wings hit the spotlight. Eventually, her singing became more tolerable -- at the band's peak, she was very good at Moog synthesizer. This may seem silly, but Wings used a lot of synthesizer. And the band usually used it well. Plus using a synth back then was no breeze. They were all analogue, so no pre-sets and often just getting sound was enough of a challenge.
