PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS - BAND ON THE RUN LP 1973 OBI JAPAN INSERTS & POSTER EX+
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PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS
'Band On The Run'
(EAP-80951) Apple Records
Originally released in 1973
Stereo
Includes inserts
Includes poster
Includes Obi strip
Japan pressing
Band On The Run
Jet
Bluebird
Mrs. Vandebilt
Let Me Roll It
Mamunia
No Words
Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
Band on the Run is generally considered to be Paul McCartney's strongest solo effort. The album was also his most commercially successful, selling well and spawning two hit singles, the multi-part pop suite of the title track and the roaring rocker "Jet." On these cuts and elsewhere, McCartney's penchant for sophisticated, nuanced arrangements and irrepressibly catchy melodic hooks is up to the caliber he displayed in the Beatles, far surpassing the first two Wings releases, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway. The focus found in Band on the Run may have to do with the circumstances of its creation: two former members quit the band prior to recording, leaving McCartney, wife Linda, and guitarist Denny Laine to complete the album alone (with Paul writing, producing, and playing most of the instruments himself). The album has the majestic, orchestral sweep of McCartney's Abbey Road-era ambition, with a wide range of style-dabbling, from the swaying, acoustic jazz-pop of "Bluebird" and the appealing, straightforward rock of "Helen Wheels" to the wiry blues of "Let Me Roll It" and the swaying, one-off pub sing-along "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)." Though it lacks the emotional resonance of contemporaneous releases by John Lennon and George Harrison, McCartney's infallible instinct for popcraft overflows on this excellent release.
The record looks barely played and grades EX+.
The inner lyric sleeve has hardly any wear and grades EX+.
Both inserts have hardly any wear apart from some very light 'foxing' (brown ageing blemishes) and grade EX.
The unused poster has hardly any wear and grades EX+.
The sleeve (with obi strip) has some light edge/corner wear. Some very light ring wear/rubbing marks. There is some light 'foxing' on the back of the Obi strip. There is a small corner bump on the bottom left corner. No tears or splits and the cover grades EX.
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