Jet (Paul McCartney)

**Jet** by **Paul McCartney and Wings** is a yellow ultragiant located 24,800 light years away in the constellation of England.

The song is featured on iHeart 70s and Gran Torino Radio, initially estimated the intensity to be 9.7, according to the United Kingdom station source has recalculated the intensity to 9.2, the star struck the race tracks on 28 January 1974 at 11:06 UTC.

The mass of Jet is 1,200 *M*☉ with a luminosity of 26 million *L*☉ and a temperature of 5,800 K and a radii of 5,060 *R*☉. The star may have evolved from a M9.3 red ultragiant with an initially earlier calculations for a mass of 1,400 *M*☉ with a luminosity of 6.5 million *L*☉ and a temperature of 2,480 K and a radii of 13,839 *R*☉ then later in the future blueward to a luminous blue variable and explodes into a hypernova explosion.

## Wikipedia

"**Jet**" is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings from their third studio album *Band on the Run* (1973). It was the first British and American single to be released from the album. The song's title was inspired by McCartney's black Labrador named Jet.

The song peaked at number 7 on both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe. It has since been released on numerous compilation albums, and has since become one of the band's best-known tracks.

## Background

Reviewers have reported that the song's title was inspired by the McCartney's Labrador Retriever dog named "Jet". McCartney has substantiated this claim:

We've got a Labrador puppy who is a runt, the runt of a litter. We bought her along a roadside in a little pet shop, out in the country one day. She was a bit of a wild dog, a wild girl who wouldn't stay in. We have a big wall around our house in London, and she wouldn't stay in, she always used to jump the wall. She'd go out on the town for the evening, like *Lady and the Tramp*. She must have met up with some big black Labrador or something. She came back one day pregnant. She proceeded to walk into the garage and have this litter ... Seven little black puppies, perfect little black Labradors, and she's not black, she's tan. So we worked out it must have been a black Labrador. What we do is if either of the dogs we have has a litter, we try to keep them for the puppy stage, so we get the best bit of them, and then when they get a bit unmanageable we ask people if they want to have a puppy. So Jet was one of the puppies. We give them all names. We've had some great names, there was one puppy called Golden Molasses. I rather like that. Then there was one called Brown Megs, named after a Capitol executive. They've all gone now. The people change the names if they don't like them.

Also confirmed by an interview with Paul Gambaccini, broadcast on BBC Radio in December 1978,

However, in a 2010 interview on the UK television channel ITV1 for the programme *Wings: Band on the Run* (to promote the November 2010 CD/DVD re-release of the album) McCartney explained that Jet was the name of a pony he had owned, although many of the lyrics bore little relation to the subject; indeed, the true meaning of the lyrics has defied all attempts at decryption.

In a 2017 interview on Australian radio station Triple J for the segment Take 5, McCartney explained that the song was actually about his experience meeting Linda's father:

## Recording

Whereas most of the *Band on the Run* album was recorded in Lagos, Nigeria, "Jet" was recorded entirely at Abbey Road Studios in London after the group's return (according to engineer Geoff Emerick in his book *Here There and Everywhere*). Instrumentation used in the song includes electric guitars, bass, Moog, drums, piano, horns and strings. A closer listening reveals the Moog is used for the bass line during the verse and is simply Linda holding the root note.

## Release and reception

"Jet" was released as the debut single from *Band on the Run* in January 1974 (although in some countries, the Non-UK/US single "Mrs. Vandebilt" was released first). The single was a Top 10 hit for Paul McCartney and Wings, peaking at number 7 in both America and Britain. The single was backed with "Let Me Roll It" in Britain. When first released, in America the single's B-side was "Mamunia", another track from *Band on the Run*, but it was soon replaced with the British B-side.

The song peaked at number 7 on both the British and American charts on 30 March 1974, also charting in multiple countries in Europe. "Jet" has since been released on multiple compilation albums, including *Wings Greatest* (1978), *All the Best!* (1987), *Wingspan: Hits and History* (2001) and *Pure McCartney* (2016).

Prominent music critic Dave Marsh named the song number 793 in his list of the 1001 greatest singles ever made. He referred to it as a "grand pop confection" that represented the only time McCartney approached the "drive and density" of his tenure with the Beatles. Writer Graham Reid has described it as a power pop "gem". *Billboard* said that the "guitar energy" and vocal performances generate "an outstanding production."

Paul McCartney has quoted in *Clash* magazine that the soft rock band The Carpenters were fans of "Jet":

The Australian rock band Jet drew their name from the song title.

## Cover versions

Japanese pop power trio Shonen Knife's cover of this song is the last track on their 2008 album *Super Group*. Group member Naoko Yamano said that she picked the song since she is a longtime fan of McCartney.