DID PAUL PLAY MOST OF THIS HIMSELF?! First Time Hearing Paul McCartney - Band On The Run Reaction!
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2023
- Join us as we explore a classic from the legendary Paul McCartney! We're reacting to "Band On The Run" for the first time, and we're intrigued to find out just how much of this iconic song Paul played himself.
🎵 About Paul McCartney: A former Beatle and a music icon, Paul McCartney's influence on music is immeasurable. His work with Wings, especially "Band On The Run," showcases his incredible talent as a musician and songwriter.
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Listening now, 50 years later, I'm struck by the beauty of Paul's voice.
Paul is not always so serious, and was inclined to let songs be a bit odd or goofy, as you can see in hits like "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey," which I recommend, BTW.
If you study the lyrics of this song, you can see he's not being serious at all.
@@CB-xr1eg I think Paul is probably only serious in his love songs. Like, uh, "Silly Love Songs."
He has NEVER performed Uncle Albert live. I got to ask him why he hasn't. He said "I have to learn that one up again".
LOVE "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey,"
If you ever saw him do this song live in concert, it's like a church revival meeting going on. The chanting and humming, foot stamping and clapping is complete. An hour an a half it's like the beginning of the show. Unbelievable if you have ever witnessed it
His wife wrote this song 🎵
@@6anthony8 I miss her lots
@@6anthony8no she didn’t
Actually she did , look it up
Huge hit from this album. All four beatles had great careers after the band split up and Band on the Run was def one of the best post beatles albums.
No not all the Beatles had a great career after. John and Paul did and also Goerge but Ringo did not and the one or two mediocre songs he had were written by Goerge Harrison.
This album is a masterpiece!!!✌️❤️🎸🎶
Paul McCartney could play just about any instruments he was a musical genius he made some great albums ❤
This is like a mini rock symphony. There's multiple movements, interesting transitions. A similar Paul McCartney song that does that is "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"
UA/AH is cool because it weaves them together at the end, and one of the earlier pieces comes back for an encore.
It's a great trip album🤩
Add to his credits, Paul McCartney wrote and performed the James Bond theme song for the movie "Live and Let Die." o
I think it was nominated for an oscar
Great album, other tunes worth a review: "Jet", "1985", and "Helen Wheels"
Jet is awesome
He is a legend. Saw him live in London in 2018 . He was simply awesome 🤩
Paul is the greatest and most successful musician of all time.
Even it he wasn’t I’d still love him .
I’ve been a Beatles fan and Paul fan since 1964 !! 🥁🎶🎸
This is awesome! "Live and let die" from Paul Mccartney and Wings is a masterpiece! Please do it next!
I've always really liked "Listen what the Man says"
Wow this song is so woven into the fabric of my young childhood, along with many other Paul McCartney and Wings songs and Beatles songs and John Lennon songs and George Harrison songs and Ringo Starr songs. What an amazing phenomenon.
Paul and Wings played on this song. Paul played the guitar, bass and drums, Denny laine played guitars and Linda McCartney played keys. Paul, denny and linda did all the vocals.
Paul had yet to put a new Wings band together. As I remember he writes "Thanks Denny" on the liner notes.
@@chrisjamieson3452 it was basically the band for that record. The other two musicians had quit prior to them leaving for lagos, Nigeria. The full Wings line up had recorded their previous two albums, Wild life and Red rose speedway.
@@keithroberts4952 I had to look it up. Paul met Jimmy McCulloch about the time they started this album. But he didn't join the band for about a year, to work on Venus & Mars. He was about 21 years old at that time. Joe English the drummer answered an ad for a drummer and ended up meeting Paul in the basement of some old building in a total surprise. A little odd.
@@chrisjamieson3452 after recording band on the run, Jimmy finally joined and he had Geoff Britton on drums. He only lasted about 6 months or so before he was replaced by Joe English.
Yes, two members of Wings departed. Paul had the idea to record in different places. Ginger Baker from Cream suggested an EMI audio in Lagos Nigeria. The two members of Wings didn’t want to go to Africa. Paul, his wife Linda, and guitarist/vocal/writer went.
They recorded in Nigeria. Met musician Fela Kuti. Linda and Paul were mugged, in Lagos, the gunman got some of Paul’s cassette demo and lyrics in the bag stolen.
Paul had Wings go to New Orleans, and the Brahma’s.
The drug bust, Mary Jane, in Japan was not until like Jan’1969.
He agreed he knew it was stupid, with Japan’s laws. He was jailed fir near a week, and sent home to England, with Linda.
My favorite Paul McCartney song. It's like 3 songs in one with such the big changes in the song. Phil, you are correct. McCartney wrote this song in response to drug laws that criminalized him and his friends (including fellow "bands on the run" Eagles and Byrds). Shortly after the Band On The Run album was released, McCartney told Melody Maker: "The basic idea about the band on the run is a kind of prison escape. At the beginning of the album the guy is stuck inside four walls, and eventually breaks out. There is a thread, but it's not a concept album." The song begins in a metaphorical prison ("stuck inside these four walls..."). Where the orchestra comes in is where McCartney envisioned a hole being blasted in one of the walls, and the subsequent escape. Paul McCartney combined pieces of different songs to make this one. The Beatles did a lot of this on their Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road albums, since it provided a way to use unfinished songs. "A Day In The Life" is a good example of two Beatles songs combined to make one.
Source: Songfacts
Wow excellent info- I never knew that after all these years - very interesting about the drug laws etc. Preeesh
If you pay attention, you’ll hear him harmonizing with himself in the chorus.
Great reaction to this.
Please react to "Jet" by him and Wings next.
Band On The Run !!!... My favorite lyrics. "The 1st one said to the 2nd one there." And love that change up in the music. I am sure others will point out other greats. They did the theme song for the Bond movie ..."Live And Let Die" ... I took my girl friend to see that one.
HI GUYS GREETINGS FROM LIVERPOOL ENGLAND 🇬🇧 THE HOME TOWN OF McCARTNEY AND THIS IS A GREAT ALBUM AND THE TRACK "JET" IS A REALLY GOOD SONG 🎵 AND PAUL HAD WORLD WIDE SUCCESS WITH HIS BAND WINGS AFTER THE BREAK UP OF THE BEATLES.
PAUL HAS ALSO SET UP THE LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE OF PERFORMING ARTS AND IT IS ALSO A GREAT SUCCESS TO ENCORAGE YOUNG PERFORMERS.
Love Paul
Hello from Chicago
"Silly Love Songs" is my favorite song ..
Fantastic album and Paul McCartney is a legend
Paul McCartney's father Jim was a jazz musician, proficient on trumpet and piano... he taught Paul how to play both. Paul picked up playing guitar in the 50's after becoming a fan of American rock n' roll music, but he had to reverse the strings because he was left-handed... He learned to play and sing in his teens, but didn't have a band.
Paul saw John Lennon performing in 1957 at a church event w/ The Quarrymen, a skiffle band that he formed w/ his school friends... he noticed that John couldn't play guitar and didn't know the actual words to the songs, but he improvised. When they were introduced, John was shocked that Paul knew how to play and sing on guitar... he offered Paul a spot in his band. Paul (and George Harrison who joined the band soon after) were both credited for teaching John Lennon how to play guitar and piano.
When the band eventually became The Beatles in 1960, Paul McCartney played guitar and sang... When their original bassist Stu Sutcliffe left the band in 1961 to focus on art (Sadly, Sutcliffe died in 1962 from a brain aneurysm), Paul opted to play bass because George Harrison was the lead guitarist and John Lennon wanted to be on guitar. In The Beatles' career, Paul would contribute piano and guitar to their tracks, in addition to bass... After The Beatles became hugely successful, the money came in and afforded Paul the luxury of learning more instruments and he learned to play the drums as well, becoming an all-round musician as well as a songwriter.
Ringo Starr (drums) recalled that it was Paul McCartney was usually the one who would organize and call the others for studio sessions to work on new music... Starr admitted that The Beatles may have prematurely stopped making music if Paul had not been pro-active.
In 1969, The Beatles ended after John Lennon opted to leave the band... he had already started a solo band The Plastic Ono Band. Final Beatles sessions took place in early 1970, but Paul McCartney was already working on songs and recording them for his 1st solo album 'McCartney' which was released in 1970 (He played all the instruments and sang)... Paul took legal action that same time, going public w/ The Beatles' breakup, and suing John, George and Ringo in court to dissolve their partnership... Paul later revealed that he had not signed a contract w/ the other Beatles' manager Allen Klein, and he was worried that Klein would raid the band's finances and assets - suing the band was the only way to legally account for all the Beatles' assets and divide them fairly between the 4 members.
Because of the lawsuit, Paul revealed that Beatles' assets were frozen by the courts and he had no income for months until the audits were completed... His wife Linda supported him and their children w/ the little savings she had... It took months for Paul to climb out of a depression, but he finally felt creative and recorded a 2nd solo album 'Ram' in 1971 (He played most of the instruments) once the legal issues were settled.
Paul McCartney had not toured since 1966 (The Beatles' final tour) and had not performed since The Beatles split in 1969... In 1971, he told Linda that he was inspired to form a new band Wings, and he wanted her to be a part of it (Linda played keyboards, but was not as musically proficient as he was) ... Paul and Linda took Wings on tour in 1972 and literally traveled in vans, playing in small venues... That was the beginning of Paul McCartney's solo career.
I remember when this was released all of fifty years ago, just three years after the breakup of the Beatles. It played nonstop on the radio and everyone had the album. He was at his peak as a solo.
Great reaction for one of the greatest musicians/ singer songwriters of all time.
Three songs in one. The synth part is the heart of the 70s for me. ❤
This was Paul McCartney and Wings . Wings was huge they had a lot of albums and great songs. Paul one and only true love was in the band Linda , she played base guitar, and then sadly passed away fairly young at the age of , i think she was 50 she died from cancer. Paul and Linda were one of a kind I believe that they were soul mates.
Paul had the idea to record the album on location in Africa but most of the band didn’t show up! It was Paul,Denny Laine and Linda! So Paul played guitar,keyboards,bass and drums and Denny played guitar while Linda played keyboards ! Paul sang lead while Denny and Linda sang backups!
Watching you two groove to the song is just like me and my friends in the 70s. We'd even start singing along, what fun.
On the "Wings Over America" tour they had the album cover on the big screen in the old Seattle Kingdome and a little way into the song the band started moving.
I love that you knew this one....Cudos to your parents..
I really like his song Let Em In too
Love love this one! He’s SUCH a great artist! 😊
On his first album after the Beatles broke up, he played everything and sang . Listen to Silly Love Songs for a great rocking tune and awesome bass .
Classic album iconic album cover - Samantha must have spent years living on mars not to have heard this ? - great fun working out who the celebs on the cover all are . 👍🇬🇧👌🏾🤪.
Paul, Linda and Denny Laine went to Nigeria to record this whole album. Thus "Band on the Run". Linda plays keyboard pads, Denny plays some of the guitar, but everything else is Paul.
Saw McCartney in Seattle in 1990. His last tour with Linda. He may be able to play all the instruments but his touring band in the 90's was top of notch. Linda, Chris Whitten, Robbie McIntosh, Hamish Stuart and Blair Cunningham. You guys should check of some live music..Wings over America is a great place to start.
Paul is multi talented he plays lots of instruments such a great musician ❤
Yeah, this is mostly Paul, Linda and Denny on the whole album. A few guests came in on a track or two; Howie Casey on sax for three songs, and Ginger Baker, drummer for Eric Clapton's Cream, on Picasso's Last Words.
You obviously have to listen to one of his biggest hits, "Live and Let Die", which was the theme song for the 1974 James Bond film of the same name. It rocks!!
Let Me Roll It, from the same album, is a too often overlooked gem; please give it a listen.
I'd love to see you two do a song by song reaction to the full "Venus & Mars" album!
A wonderful idea! The very first album I purchased with my own money was Venus and Mars after being gifted the 45rpm of Band on the Run, on a field trip to a local radio station in 6th grade. I still have it and have made sure that I had a copy in most every format it has been released on.
More Paul McCartney solo please
I live in Tucson, Arizona, where Linda went to school at the UofA. They had a house here and spent all of their free time here. The desert world referred to in this song, is Tucson, Az. They loved it here because they were able to go out in public and not be completely mobbed by fans asking for photos and autographs. They lived here so it was more like Hi Paul, nice to see you. When they were here you could always see them checking out the latest hot local band.
Great reaction! Enjoyable.
"Rabbits on the run", a young Paul, born in early 1940's, would have known and listened to the old English music hall song from WW2 "Run Rabbit Run" by Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen, I think that may be the reference
You can find on UA-cam a poor quality recording of John Lennon at a party singing all these songs... so he was very obviously impressed with his friend's work (at times)
The following year - '74 McCartney went to Lennon (Lennon was then living away from Yoko, with May Pang) and they did some jamming together
Since we are sort of in the heels of the "Now and Then" release and the reunion they had with John's on that track, maybe you guys would like to react to Paul's tribute he did to John after he died called, "Here Today". It's a beautiful touching song.
gotta do Jet as well.
This is my "bad day" song. If I have a very bad day, I get into my car and on the drive home I listen to this song, then all is right in the world.
This song is a masterpiece, straight up
The Band on the Run album was recorded only by Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, in Lagos, Nigeria. The day before they were to leave for Nigeria, their other guitarist and drummer decided NOT to go. It was too last minute, so Paul decided to go anyway with his last 2 memvers (Linda and Denny. So THEY are what you hear on this. Paul played bass, piano, some electric guitar, acoustic guitar and played DRUMS on ALL the songs on the album. Denny played some bass, when Paul was playing guitar or piano, Denny also plays piano. Linda plays keyboards, and some percussion. She is the one that is playing that weird sound at the start of the second section of the song, just before you paused it for the first time. ALL of them do the harmonies and back up singing.
On the album 'McCartney' he played all the instruments, but on the 'Band on the Run" he's with Linda and Denny Laine.
I believe that when Paul recorded the album he did all the instruments, the production, editing, mixing, etc. and then hired the band to go on tour.
No Paul, Linda and Denny recorded it in Nigeria. That's Denny. on the guitars and Linda on the Keys, Paul on Bass, Drums and guitar and all three on vocals. This album won the Grammy for best vocal album. "If we ever get out of here" - George Harrison at Apple legal meetings following the. break up of the Beatles.
saw Paul with my wife and daughter and well worth the money. That was in 2014.
Let Live and Die, My Brave Face, This One, Pipe of Peace and more.
My favorite McCartney album, with Ram a close second. I always thought the album title referred to the fact that most members of Wings had quit and gone off to do other things. Paul had contributions from his wife Linda and Denny Laine, who had not quit. It's a great album, every track a winner!
Huge album, listen also to Jet, Let me roll it and Mrs Vandebilt.
The Beatles used a very early version of the synthesizer/Moog on their "Abbey Road" album. They were always looking for new technologies and techniques to bring into their songs, to get an interesting vibe added to the music. They were so innovative!
Great reactions
My favorite Wings song
A God of British music.
Great to hear this after a long time! Really good album, 'Jet' being my favourite track. I also liked the next album, 'Venus and mars' another one full of good tunes. My taste parted ways with 'Macca' after this with the emergence of punk in the UK. Cheers guys!
Paul is playing the Bass, and Wings are the rest of the music. Beatles bassist and singer Paul McCartney, his wife Linda McCartney on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine. Check out "Rockshow"
Yes, Paul did play the lion's share. Bear in mind Wings at this point was just Paul, the late Denny Laine, and Paul's wife, Linda, who was a novice musician and just helped out with simple keyboard phrases that Paul coached her on. The basic track was recorded in a primitive EMI studio in Lagos, Nigeria, during the monsoon seasion, in trying circumstances. "If we ever get out of here" quotes George Harrison's complaint at a Beatles break-up legal meeting, and the "band on the run" also refers to the fact that Wings' drummer and lead guitarist had quit right before the flight out to Lagos ("the rain exploded with a mighty crash as we fell into the sun"), leaving Paul and Denny in the lurch ("the rabbiits on the run"). So Paul is the backbone, on bass, drums, guitars, keys, and vocals, and Denny added some guitar and harmonies. Orchestration was added back in London, scored by Tony Visconti but pretty much as dictated by Paul.
This was huge back in the day, loved it!
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey have always been a favorite of mine... Thanks.
It probably should have been 3 separate songs, but hey... He can do whatever he wants.
My favorite Paul McCartney song is Let Em In from Wings At The Speed Of Sound.
I remember when this was new. I liked it then. I love it now. Another great track from that album is Jet. As for composing, Paul wrote the score for the 007 movie, Live And Let Die. That’s absolute fire too. Happy Thanksgiving.
Yes, Paul did everything. Linda McCartney sang co-vocals/backup and probably did the synthesizer part -- although Paul would have been perfectly fine handling that as well -- which was her instrument in the band (along with keyboards, generally). But Paul has been a drummer most of his live and, of course, a guitarist/bass player most of his life. He was never classically trained but he is quite a good/great piano player, having grown up in a house with a piano, which his Dad used to play (his Dad was a semi-professional musician in his own right, as I understand it) around the house. So, yeah, Paul McCartney is a multi-instrumentalist and a genius song-writer!
This song is about his dsys as a Beatle. If you listen to the lyrics it makes sense.
When he made this song he had a band.
"Beware My Love" will blow your mind with the instruments.
I grew up with this song thanks for bringing back the memories and reacting to it. 😀
In my opinion the whole album Band On The Run is his best, but I also love the triple live album Wings Over America 1976. This starts with the brilliant 10' Venus And Mars/Rock Show/Jet, already one of the highlights. McCartney has always walked a tightrope: on the one hand, good songs, on the other, "kitsch"; actually every solo Beatle. The four of them complemented each other perfectly. Of course, this requires a willingness to compromise, as in any well-functioning relationship.
As an old man who lived in the sixties and seventies rock and roll era as a teenager, I'm always mildly surprised when a young couple on a reaction channel listens to a song and band I've owned and enjoyed in multiple formats since the album was released. From 33 1/3, 45's, 8 tracks, cassette tapes, to compact discs, I've never been without the music I love. My daughters are in their thirties and my grandchildren all know these songs. Heck, the wife and 3-year-old granddaughter were dancing to a Grand Funk Railroad song the other night in the middle of our living room. Mildly surprised at the rock vacuum that many of these reaction channels admit to owning.
Sam, this was the first time watching these reaction videos that anyone has alluded to "the time period". I heard someone else review Cream the other night and they were less than impressed with a very cool song that was groundbreaking in it's time. You hit it on the head and carrying that further and understanding it from the perspective of nothing like many of these bands and songs were ever done before and it blew our minds! (and our parents) Sure, now it may be blase' but then not so much.
Paul McCartney - vocals, guitars, electric piano, bass and drums
Linda McCartney - synthesizers and electric piano
Denny Laine - lead guitar
Paul played guitar as well
@@ewest14 It says guitars
I totally love this song!!!❤❤❤ So great!🔥🔥 I really love how it changes beat in the song kind of, back and forth!👏👏🎶🎶
It just doesn't get any more beautiful than Samantha!
You guys should check out the last track on the “Band On The Run” album: “Nineteen Hundred And Eightyfive” next. It’s a masterpiece of how it connects to this opening title track.🔁
Smile By Nat King Cole
Valley of the dolls by Dionne Warwick
Make it easy on yourself by the Walker Brothers
I say a Little prayer by Aretha Franklin
What the world needs now is love by Jackie DeShannon
Anyone who had a heart by Dionne Warwick?
The look of Love by Dusty Springfield
Do you know the way to San Jose by Dionne Warwick?
They Long to be close to you, the Carpenters
Stones, by Neil Diamond
Have you heard part 1/the voyage/have you heard part2 by The Moody Blues
Talking out of turn by The Moody Blues (never seen one single reaction to this song)
Moonlight mile by The Rolling Stones (never heard it play on any radio)
Love you 💟☮️
Great band 👍🏽
They played multiple days in Atlanta ( 5 or 7 I get mixed up because Skynyrd did a similar thing ) for that tour. Saw em twice. The lead guitar player was 17 at the time. Pretty amazing...
The song "Band on the Run" was partly inspired by a remark George Harrison had made during one of the many business meetings the Beatles attended in 1969, in an effort to address the problems afflicting their Apple Corps enterprise.
The album was made in Ikeja, Nigeria, where I used to live with my parents in the 1960s. Ikeja is the town next to Lagos Airport. I think the lyrics reflect some of Paul’s experiences there. For example, it tends to rain very heavily at times in southern Nigeria, hence “The rain exploded with a mighty crash”. I used to own this album, but I’ve rather gone off the ex-Beatles’ output after the band broke up; I think they were much better together.
Nothing lasts forever.
There are several stories behind the meaning of Band On the Run ........ Paul did say in a much-later interview that it was about musicians being persecuted on drug charges (but this album came out 7 years before Paul himself was arrested). I think when it first came out, we assumed it might be yet another veiled comment on the break-up of the Beatles. And then I read a few years later, it was actually about two members of Wings leaving the group right before the recording of this album. Take your pick.
Hope you get round to Mull of Kintyre great track ❤❤
The front cover features celebraties from various walks of life.
Other great McCartney tracks you might want to check out are "Silly Love Songs", "Jet", Junior's Farm
I luv this song much..and i luv u react paul...
Solo stuff - Paul played mostly everything if not everything. WINGS material - the band played, although Paul would come in on a few things depending on song.
You might like something from their Venus & Mars album; VENUS AND MARS/ROCK SHOW - it is worthy of your reaction. The first song is an intro to the second. BTW, the opening line in the current song is; "IF I ever get out of here..." NOT "Can..."
He played on all of the instruments entirely on 3 albums. McCartney, McCartney II, McCartney III.
You're thinking of his first solo album "McCartney ". Except for Linda playing some keys and doing backup vocals the rest of the album was all him.
The sad thing about Wings is that the documentaries frequently overlook Denny Laine
On this song Denny Laine is credited as lead guitar
Laine stayed with Wings the entire 7 or so years of it and he co-wrote "Mull of Kintyre" the biggest UK single ever at the time. He also cowrote or wrote some other Wings songs but he was the only one loyal band member, other than Linda who naturally stuck with her husband.
Even after Wings petered out the McCartneys took Laine with them to be backing singles on George Harrison's tribute to John Lennon - "All those years ago"
McCartney does not work well with others.
After Laine he looked for another partner and found that in 10cc member Eric Stewart, who appeared on several early 80s McCartney albums.
He tried working with Michael Jackson doing cross-overs on each other's albums with "Say, Say, Say" and "The Girl is Mine" but Jackson stabbed McCartney in the back
Next in the late 80s McCartney tried to collaborate with Declan Patrick MacManus (aka Elvis Costello). They even appeared on each other's albums "Spike" and "Flowers in the Dirt"
You guys should check out Paul's Superbowl halftime show it was amazing
Thanks for a great reaction to a great McCartney song!
Our pleasure!
Paul is NOT on piano/keyboards on the LIVE performance from 1976, he is playing bass on that. See the link I listed in my comment below this.
You should listen to Paul's album "FLAMING PIE released on May 5, 1997. There are a lot of more serious (and beautiful) songs on that album. It was recorded during the time when his wife Linda was suffering from breast cancer. She died nearly a year later from the release of "FLAMING PIE" on April 17, 1998. Several of the songs reflect his love for her and their life together, knowing that she didn't have much longer, those songs are "CALICO SKIES," and "SOMEDAYS" Another song on that album "LITTLE WILLOW" was written for Ringo's 3 children to comfort them when their mother Maureen died from leukemia, she was Ringo's first wife. "LITTLE WILLOW" s a very emotional one for me, for a different reason, and it''s is hard for me to listen to it without totally falling apart and sobbing. It's so beautiful, so is "SOMEDAYS". The whole album is fantastic and one of my favorites, and not ALL the tracks are sad and somber. It has a good mix of songs.
I stand to be corrected but talking of synths George Harrison was possibly the first mainstream person to use a synth on 'Here comes the Sun' circa 1969
This album is amazing! When i eat mushrooms i listen to it at some point because it's a great ride.
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