Trivia / Band on the Run

• Better Export for You: "Helen Wheels" was only present in the American version of the album. It was added back into the UK version in the 1993 re-release.
• Troubled Production: Guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell left the band during rehearsals for the album, leaving the McCartneys and Denny Laine as the only members of Wings to record the album. Upon arrival at the EMI facilities in Lagos, the band found out that the studio was woefully out-of-date, with equipment that ranged from nearly archaic to completely non-functional. Then, still in Nigeria, Paul and Linda got robbed and had a songbook and demo tapes stolen (including an early version of "Band on the Run", which Paul was able to re-record from memory.) Later still, during recording, Paul started gasping for air and, when taken out to breathe, fainted from sunstroke.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: "Picasso's Last Words" originated when Paul and Linda vacationed in Jamaica and had dinner with Dustin Hoffman, who was there filming Papillon. When Paul suggested that he could write a song about anything, Hoffman challenged him to write something based on a magazine article, and the article he found just happened to be about Pablo Picasso's death, and Paul made up a melody to go along with the last words reported in the article, to Hoffman's astonishment.

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