History Trivia / Wings

* TheWikiRule: [[http://wings.wikia.com/wiki/Wings The Wings Wiki]].

!! For [[Music/{{Wings}} the band]]:
* BannedInChina: Some Wings songs were blocked from airing on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] radio; the reasons were either drug references or political references. Some of those songs hit the top of the British charts anyway.
%% (These are all Zero Context Examples. Please expand before un-commenting. In particular, *how* did Paul almost die?)
%%* BreakawayPopHit: "Live and Let Die."
* ChannelHop: The band were originally signed to Apple Records, carrying on from Music/TheBeatles' stint on the label after they founded it. In 1975, they moved to Creator/CapitolRecords in conjunction with Music/PaulMcCartney's new vanity imprint, MPL Communications, as Apple's distribution contract with Creator/{{EMI}} was due to expire the following year, which would result in the label being absorbed by the company. In 1979, they moved again to Creator/ColumbiaRecords in the US and Canada, though remained under EMI's wing elsewhere. The Columbia contract would extend to [=McCartney's=] solo career until 1985, when he moved back to Capitol and took the Wings catalog with him.
%%* CreativeDifferences: More than once.
%%* CreatorBreakdown: Paul almost ''died'' during the ''Band on the Run'' sessions. And then there was that incident in January 1980…
* EditedForSyndication: "With a Little Luck" everywhere because of time and synths. Despite this, all compilations aside from ''Wingspan'' and the US edition of ''All the Best'' use the full version.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The first British edition of ''Band on the Run'' didn't include "Helen Wheels." That idea came from a Creator/CapitolRecords exec. Adding the song didn't hurt the album any.
* ReferencedBy: In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', the second form of [[BigBad Enrico Pucci]]'s [[FightingSpirit Stand]] which has the power of [[GravityMaster gravity manipulation]], C-Moon, is named after the Wings single of the same name.

!! For [[Film/{{Wings}} the movie]]:
* BackedByThePentagon: One of the earlier examples; the Air Corps supplied both planes and pilots for the film. The rest of the Army, meanwhile, coughed up $16 million (a huge amount at the time) to help with budget problems, and supplied soldiers and tanks for the battlefield scenes.
* BillingDisplacement: Even though Creator/ClaraBow has top billing, her character, Mary, only appears sporadically. She didn't even exist in the original draft, and was added mainly because SexSells.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Due to the poor conditions of the surviving elements, this movie took longer than every Best Picture Oscar winner from ''Film/{{Sunrise}}'' to ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' to come to DVD.
* OnSetInjury: While filming the aerial combat scenes, stunt pilot Dick Grace was required to deliberately crash-land a Fokker D-VII, specially modified to "crumple" on impact. When the Fokker struck the ground, the landing gear failed to crumple, making the impact a heavier one than planned. This caused Grace's safety straps to break, sending his head through the instrument panel, leaving him with four crushed vertebrae and a broken neck. Amazingly, he spent only six weeks in the hospital and was again performing stunt work within a year.

** Antonio's cousin Dominic was played by the not even remotely Italian Maurice Godin.

* SoundtrackDissoance: The Creator/{{CBS}} Paramount Television logo plasters the Creator/{{Paramount}} Television logo on seasons 4 and 5 on DVD. Both parts of "Joe Blows" from the latter season retain the latter's theme over the former logo due to a plastering error.

** Helen Chappel was originally conceived to be of Greek descent and the producers had Creator/PeriGilpin (best known for playing Roz Doyle on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'') in mind for the part. NBC president Brandon Tartikoff felt Gilpin lacked experience in leading roles and suggested Crystal Bernard instead. Since Bernard had a Southern accent, Helen was rewritten as a transplanted Texan, and Gilpin instead appeared in the third season episode "Four Dates That Will Live In Infamy". Also, Joe and Helen were initially envisioned as an already-divorced couple, but NBC [[ExecutiveVeto nixed this idea]].

* HeAlsoDid:
** Peter Bonerz directed 11 episodes. Bonerz is best known for playing Dr. Jerry Robinson on ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow''.
** James Burrows directed the show's pilot episode. Burrows is best known as co-creator and co-executive producer of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.

* HeAlsoDid

** When the show was made available for streaming on Netflix (and later Hulu and Paramoun+), 22 episodes were missing. Most notably "Twisted Sister", the episode that introduces Casey, and part 2 of "Remembrance of Flings Past".

** When the show was made available for streaming on Netflix (and later Hulu), 22 episodes were missing. Most notably "Twisted Sister", the episode that introduces Casey.