The story of the Wings album London Town with Andrew Brooks
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2023
- This video looks at how, when and why the London Town album by Paul McCartney and his band Wings, was recorded.
This video contains home movies and in studio videos showing the making of the album and tracks recorded in 1977.
Always loved London Town record. Good to know so much more of its history now, thank you for this!❤
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
My favorite Wings album .
Любимый альбом!
My favourite Wings album also.
Great video - I love I've Had Enough and Name and Address . Have to say I love Mull Of Kintyre too.
Great video Andrew, really enjoyed this and loved all the research and context!
Thanks James, there should be another one soon.
Great video mate! what a great album
Thought you might enjoy it.
Thank you so much for putting it into context of its time.
I was 16 at the time and brought it on the day of release. I love this album and think it's a masterpiece.
Please Paul release it in the archive...... Please.
Thank you for this video , and the time you took to make it. I really enjoyed it.....and who knows at some point we'll get a proper version of Waterspout 😊
Thanks Andrew… I admit there are some gems on this album but I rank it below back to the egg, Venus and Mars, wings at the speed of sound, and Band On the Run. But I would put it right in the middle of all of their albums. I have the new McCartney legacy volume one book checked out from the public library and it is fantastic… It is 700 pages long and it only covers three years!
Thanks for watching. I'm currently ploughing through that book. Will I be alive to get to Back to the egg part lol
London Town is too my prefer Wings album. The voice of Paul is amazing in all the songs. In 1978 I was 12 y.o and was a great year to me. I’m Spanish, Barcelona, and also was the year of my first visit to my prefer city of the world; London. Thanks for a very interesting video.
I think McCartney's voice was at its peak in this era
Love the T shirt Andrew. I’ve always loved the Wings logo after seeing them at Wembley in Oct 76. So now I know your 4 years younger than myself. I turned 60 last week.
I love this album.
Interesting to consider that this may have come out around or somewhat near the time that John was playing around with a song idea on his cassette boombox in NYC called "Now and Then".
Great video, I remember here in the USA Girld School got air play, but the flip side not at all. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for an archive edition later this year.
London Town is fabulous! In my top three Wings albums, along with V&M (favourite) and BOTR
Very nice and interesting information about a wonderful album. Thank You.
I too love this record but must acknowledge there may be some nostalgia at play. It was the first Wings LP I bought on release (Venus & Mars was the first by the band I had) and is probably the one I've played most over the years. The only track I couldn't abide at the time was Girlfriend, which I tended to skip, although I've learned to grudgingly tolerate it now. I was more into heavy rock at the time but I always enjoy the folk sound Denny brought to LT.
Have all Albums of Wings, LP's and CD's! Greeting from Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany!
Great video, Andrew!
Hi Andrew, thanks for a fine review. I bought the album on its original release, though I was disappointed with it at the time, I have grown to like it over the years. I always felt that Name and Address could have been a great rocker if it hadn’t been an Elvis homage and Mull / Girls School, plus Cage would have enhanced the album.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I suspect an archive addition will inspire a favorable reappraisal of this album just like it did, for me, for McCartney II and Pipes of Peace.
I have always loved it
Comprehensive summary, thanks. By the sound of things, 90% of the album was recorded as a 5 piece? From the timescales, Mull of Kintyre was recorded in August before Jimmy had left the band, but he wasn't on it?
Andrew… Wasn’t Jimmy McCulloch from Scotland? It’s too bad he wasn’t around for Mull of Kintyre… That is a great song.
Yes you are correct he was born in Scotland.
there was a band from 1968 called wings dont know if paul took theire name ,excist 1 lp on yt u can listen to this
Nice vid, but the Suzy single you showed was the re release as it had the new vid made for it?
Thanks, it's the earliest one I have. Thought it was better than nothing.
Hated Mull of kintyre. Hated it! But my dad told me it sold more copies at the time than any other 45rpm.
I recently discovered both Back to the Egg and London Town back in November, in anticipation of their archive boxsets this year (still hoping) and I love both albums! They’ve been in my rotation since November.
I didn’t know Girls School was part of London Town “sessions”, but I’ve loved that sing since my father played it for me when I was 12! Seems back in the 70’s Paul’s real rockers were on the singles; Girls School, Juniors Farm, etc.
I loved this video! I hope you’ll do a Back to the Egg deep dive next 🤞🏻 - ✌🏻 - Julia
Thanks for the kind words. I might do a BTTE video.
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Was this your first Wings album you got as this is why it’s one of your faves? I prefer Venus and Mars to this and BOTR.
Love the T shirt Andrew. I’ve always loved the Wings logo after seeing them at Wembley in Oct 76. So now I know your 4 years younger than myself. I turned 60 last week.
Hi Trevor, I honestly can't remember what my first wings album was. I think I got BOTR, LT, V&M and BTTE roughly around the same time. Out of of those BTTE is my fave, followed by LT, then V&M then BOTR.
Although back in the 80s I think V&M was top.
Thanks for watching maybe see you around sometime.
@@AndrewBrooks Love the T shirt Andrew. I’ve always loved the Wings logo after seeing them at Wembley in Oct 76. So now I know your 4 years younger than myself. I turned 60 last week.
I got the shirt on ebay a few years ago. Yes I'm 57 this year.
@@AndrewBrooksThanks Andrew about the shirt. What do think to the Ai Paul McCartney. ua-cam.com/video/qU-CFK-wi1g/v-deo.html
I was 11 in May 1977,i was born in 1966.
I’ve always felt that the reason Paul shies away from this album and Egg is because of the rampant drug use. Denny Laine and Paul’s daughters could probably tell some interesting tales about these sessions that would probably embarrass him around his grandchildren. It would be many years after Egg before Paul would play in a band again, probably Flowers in the Dirt era as a career comeback.
Any idea if this album is still in print? I googled it on Amazon and I only see used copies
I'm sure it's still available on CD. It's available definitely on Spotify. There is no archive edition as I said in the video. I'm sure eventually it will get a half speed master release as that seems to be happening to earlier releases.
I suppose December wasn't completely a rest - they performed Mull on the Mike Yarwood show, broadcast on Christmas Day and watched by 21 million people.
That is true but was probably recorded in November or early December.
@@AndrewBrooks After a bit of clicking on google discovered it was recorded on Dec 10th.
Anne Jones won in 1969 then Virginia Wade won in 1977.
I was 19 when this lp came out. I loathed it. Didn’t buy another McCartney lp till Flowers in the Dirt.
I find it hard to believe anybody really likes this lp. But i guess to each his own. But saying it’s better than well any other Wings lp including the deeply flawed but still better Speed of Sound seems insane to me.
wasnt it only 1 year, and not 2, at the beginning of 77, since ´wings at the speed of sound´?
Speed of sound released march 76, London Town released march 78
@@AndrewBrooks ok sure. But you said in 77 it had been 2 years.
I was inferring that when London Town came out it was 2 years. I'm sorry
@@AndrewBrooks no problem - no splitting hairs- I had this album and poster on the wall at age 14; but overall I prefer back to the egg and band on the run.
Nice video. Decent album, but easily my least favorite Wings album.
I don't like this album. I note the puzzling John Heaton also rated this highly. IMHO there was only one really successful / satisfactory / consistent McCartney album - Band on the Run - a cliché - time will tell. The next best are: Flaming Pie, Off the Ground, Venus & Mars, Chaos & Creation. Most people rate Ram the top - not me (and not Ringo either, ha-hah)! My personal favourites are actually McCartney I & McCartney II. Cheers.