12/19/2023 0 Comments Paul mccartney wingsAfter the release of the title track of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die, McCullough and Seiwell resigned from the band. However, the core trio of the McCartneys and Laine remained intact throughout the group’s existence.Ĭreated following the McCartneys’ 1971 album Ram, the band’s first two albums, Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway (the latter featuring guitarist Henry McCullough), were viewed as artistic disappointments beside Paul McCartney’s work with the Beatles. Wings were noted for frequent personnel changes as well as commercial success, going through three lead guitarists and four drummers. Paul McCartney and Wings, also known simply as Wings, were a British-American rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. So I said to Linda, ‘How about Wings?’ It was a time when most people would be thinking about a name for a child, and there we were talking about a pop group. Anyway, I was thinking for some reason of wings of a dove, wings of angels, wings of birds, wings of a plane. You know, people would say things like, ‘We’ve got beetles in the kitchen,’ and there would be some crack about it being us. I wanted something that would become a catchphrase like The Beatles. I thought of the name Wings when Linda was in hospital having Mary and had persuaded the hospital to let me have a camp bed in her room to be with her. But I wrote to the guy in Scotland and told him that and he wrote back, ‘I don’t think you’ll be calling yourselves Turpentine because that’s something used to clean paint off,’ so we thought of Wings. But we thought, no, we need something a little more earthy, so we thought of Turpentine. I’d like to suggest The Dazzlers.’ So we were nearly The Dazzlers, with the big sequinned jackets. We had a letter from an old gentleman in Scotland, which said, ‘Dear Paul, I see you are looking for a name for your group. We had a new group and we had to think of a name. Paul McCartney – from Wild Life 2018 reedition When I started Wings, I’d taken the option of starting from scratch – to find my way down that road again.
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