Paul McCartney & Wings 'Band on the Run' (Lyric Video) - YouTube Paul McCartney & Wings 'Band on the Run' (Lyric Video) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 29, 2014 Directed and produced by visual artist Ben Ib. April 2014 marks the 'Band on the Run' U.S. single's anniversary, released as a 7" on 8th April, 1974 (28th June 1974 in the UK, fact fans!). The 'Band on the Run' album was recorded in EMI Studios, Lagos and AIR Studios, London between August and October of 1973. Wings were without a drummer at the time so Paul stepped in and recorded all the drum tracks. It was during the Lagos sessions that Paul and Linda were mugged losing their money, camera and the original album demos to the thieves!

This unfortunate event didn't stop 'Band on the Run' from becoming Wings' most successful album. It was the top selling album in the UK in 1974 and reached no.1 in the US on 3 separate occasions. It has gone on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide. The 'band on the run' on the iconic front cover features broadcasters Michael Parkinson and Clement Freud, singer / actor Kenny Lynch, actor James Coburn, actor Christopher Lee, boxer John Conteh as well as Paul, Linda and Denny Laine The album was re-mastered and reissued in 2010 as the first release in the on-going Paul McCartney Archive Collection, featuring previously unreleased performances and rare documentary footage. Get your copy of the remastered 'Band on the Run' here: Amazon -- Click HERE: h2g2 - 'Band on the Run' - the Cover Stars - Edited Entry 1 Conversation The cover of Paul McCartney and Wings' 1 1973 album Band on the Run featured a number of stars of the day posing with the band.

In the words of Paul, this mish-mash of celebrity was 'a bit of a laugh.' It is a pastiche of a prison break with the figures caught in a searchlight. So who were these faces and what has become of them? On the sleeve, band members and guest stars are all mixed up but, from left to right, they are Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, Paul McCartney, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Linda McCartney, Christopher Lee, Denny Laine and John Conteh. The Band Sir Paul McCartney Paul had formed Wings after the split of The Beatles . He was getting used to being no longer part of the most successful band in the world. Wings, of course, could be nowhere near as successful as The Beatles had been, but this album restored some of Paul's rapidly-flagging credibility. Paul went on to have a highly successful solo career and has ventured into writing classical pieces. In 1984 his first classical piece was 'Eleanor's Dream', with the 'Liverpool Oratorio' becoming his first full-length piece, followed by 'Standing Stone'. He has, however, yet to learn how to write musical notation.

His 2002 tour caused controversy when he decided to recredit the old Beatles' tracks he performed, naming the main or only writer first, so that his tracks were credited McCartney/Lennon. Hence he broke the long-standing agreement that songs be credited Lennon/McCartney. Linda McCartney New York-born Linda Eastman was a photo journalist for Rolling Stone magazine when, in the late 1960s, she took a series of pictures of The Beatles. She fell in love with Paul and broke the hearts of many girls the world over by becoming Mrs McCartney. John Lennon also blamed her for the split-up of The Beatles. Critics say that Linda was only a member of Wings because she was Paul's wife, although she had some musical credibility with her keyboard playing. She and Paul spent only one night of their married life apart, when he had been arrested in Japan for carrying cannabis. Together with Paul she had a family of four children. As well as continuing with her photography she was an advocate for vegetarianism and animal rights, supporting charities such as Lynx (the UK anti-fur lobby) and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals).

Following the success of her 1989 book Linda McCartney's Home Cooking she set up her own company producing vegetarian ready meals. She died of cancer in 1998. Denny Laine Denny had been in a variety of bands before teaming up with the McCartneys in Wings. Most famously he was guitarist and vocalist for The Moody Blues who, despite only releasing one album, remain famous thanks to their lyrical version of 'Go Now' 2 , a tune that is associated very much with the 1960s era. He was also in an early line-up of the band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the incident in Japan, Wings never reunited. Paul branched out on a solo career, and so did Denny. His first effort, in a McCartneyesque moment, included his wife Jo Jo on vocals, as well as Wings drummer Steve Holly. The Denny Laine Band, as they became, only appeared on Denny's album Japanese Tears, did a tour and appeared on various TV shows - they never released an album.

Several failed projects followed, along with a few solo albums, before he returned in 1994 to release four solo albums and become part of the original line-up of World Famous Rockers along with Spencer Davis (vocals, guitar ), Michael Monarch (guitar), Randy Meisner ( bass ), Nick St Nicholas (bass) and Bruce Gary ( drums 3 ). The Others James Coburn Coburn had been the star of several TV series, including Klondike and Acapulco in the 1960s, as well as making his film breakthrough in Our Man Flint. He carried on performing in a number of character roles in major dramas and comedic films. He had roles in Maverick (1994) and The Nutty Professor (1998), but he crowned his acting career when he received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1999 film Affliction, in which he played Nick Nolte's abusive father. He died in 2002. John Conteh Conteh was a leading British light-heavyweight boxer, born, like McCartney, in Liverpool. He was one of ten children in a family that had emigrated from Sierra Leone.

He held the World Boxing Council title from 1974 to 1977. Bob Foster, who had previously held the title, refused to fight Conteh, who instead defeated Jorge Ahmunda of Argentina for the vacated title. He successfully defended his title five times, the last two came after a 15-month absence from the ring after breaking his hand on two occasions while sparring. Conteh, like his predecessor, was stripped of the title for refusing to fight. In his case he pulled out of a fight against Miguel Cuello two days before it was due to take place in Monaco. He attempted a comeback to regain the title but, in 1979, he lost the first of his fights against Saad Muhammad on points after going the full 15 rounds. The following year he tried again, but was on the canvas five times before the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round. After this fight, he trashed his hotel room. He was living a rock star lifestyle after being an album star on a rock album. He attempted to fight on, but an irregularity was found at the base of his skull and his licence to fight was revoked.

His boxing career over, his wife divorced him for having an affair. However, the last days of his career had also suffered due to excesses of alcohol and cocaine. He turned his life around, though. He kicked both habits and started to appear on TV as a boxing commentator and guest on game shows. He has also turned his hand to acting, which, unlike Frank Bruno 4 , he appeared in productions other than pantomime and still pops up on shows, even after more than 20 years out of the ring. Sir Clement Freud Think of any famous Freud - Clement is related to them. He is a grandson of Sigmund. Clement, in his own right, was a successful broadcaster, writer and chef, and was at one time director of the Playboy Club. In 1973 he stood for the Liberal Party in the safe Conservative seat of the Isle of Ely 5 . He took 38% of the vote in the by-election at a seat the Liberals hadn't even contested in the 1970 general election, and he went on to defend it four times until he was defeated in 1987. He continues to appear on the Radio 4 show Just a Minute .

He has been the rector of Dundee University and in 2002 he beat Germaine Greer in the election for new rector for Scotland's oldest university at St Andrews . His autobiography plays on his family history and love of wordplay when he titled it Freud Ego. Christopher Lee CBE Born in 1922 to a colonel and an Italian Contessa, Lee served in the Royal Air Force and Special Forces during World War II. On being demobbed he sought employment in the film industry. He got work on stage, in opera and radio as well as having, for a period, a full-time contract with the Rank film studio. However, it was for the Hammer Horror films that he was best known, until his appearances as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and as Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Altogether he has appeared in over 250 films. He has a number of distinctive acting credits and honours: He is the only actor who has portrayed Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft. He executed King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France.

He has appeared in more sword fights in front of the camera than probably any other actor in history. In his early career he did all of his own stunts and still attempts to do as many as possible. He is an honorary member of three stuntmen's unions. He is the actor instantly recognisable as a vampire due to the time he spent making movies at Hammer. The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats lists him as being the international star with the most screen credits . He was offered the role of James Bond before Sean Connery. Like Connery, he once played his golf off a scratch handicap 6 . He is the only cousin of Ian Fleming to appear in a Bond movie - in the film The Man with the Golden Gun . Kenny Lynch OBE Lynch is a Stepney-born black Londoner, the youngest of 13 children. He first appeared in 1951, aged 12, with his sister, the singer Maxine Daniels. At 16 he joined Ed Nichol's band and later Bob Miller's before joining the army in 1957. 'Mountain of Love', his debut single for the HMV record label, was a hit in 1960.

In 1963 he had two successive top 10 hits: 'Up On The Roof' and 'You Can Never Stop Me Loving You'. Although the hits started to dry up, he continued to tour and perform. He also appeared on numerous TV game and variety shows. He even hosted Celebrity Squares for a while. He co-wrote the Small Faces' top ten hit 'Sha La La La Lee'. In 1983, he had a surprise chart return with a Brit-funk track 'Half The Day's Gone and We Haven't Earned a Penny on Satril'. He is still performing and recording today, as well as being involved in charity work. Michael Parkinson CBE Yorkshire-born 'Parkie' was the king of chatshows at the time of the release of Band on the Run. There are claims that he appeared on the sleeve on the promise of interviewing Paul on his show, though the interview finally took place in 2001. In the days when TV shut down for the night, his was the show which ended a Saturday night's entertainment at 11pm. However, he started out as a local journalist in Yorkshire, before going on to the Manchester Guardian.

After that he became a feature writer for the Daily Express newspaper. His TV career naturally started on Granada news bulletins, but his passion for sport soon came through when, in 1965, he started to write a weekly sports column in The Sunday Times. In 1969 he moved away from news on TV, presenting Granada's cinema review series. Then in 1971 he started an afternoon show - Teabreak - for Thames, which for a while he presented with his wife Mary before she took it over. The same year also saw the start of the chatshow Parkinson, which he also went on to produce in Australia. The first run finished in 1982, but he came back to the BBC in 1995 and is still producing classic Parkinson interview shows. Between 1982 and 1995 he had returned to independent television and presented a number of chatshows as well as the long running charades game show Give Us a Clue. He continues to write for newspapers as well as appearing on radio and TV.

1 There is no credit on the cover, just the sleeve, and EMI had forced the addition of Paul's name as Wings had not been successful up until the release of Band on the Run. 2 The song became part of Wings' live repertoire. 3 Monarch and St Nicholas were in Steppenwolf, Meisner in The Eagles and Gray in Knack. As for Davis, he is Spencer Davis. 4 British ex-boxer who turned to a theatrical 'career'. 5 This constituency has existed since 1983, in north-east Cambridgeshire. 6 A scratch handicap is when you've got a handicap of zero, ie when you play a round of golf, you don't deduct any points from your final scoure.

Macca’s Beatles breakout: The making of Wings’ Band On The Run | George's Journal Macca’s Beatles breakout: The making of Wings’ Band On The Run November 30, 2010 tags: 1970s , Alan Partridge , Band On The Run (album) , Band On The Run (song) , Christopher Lee , Clement Freud , Denny Laine , Dustin Hoffman , George Harrison , James Coburn , Jet (song) , John Conteh , John Lennon , Kenny Lynch , Linda McCartney , Live And Let Die (song) , Michael Parkinson , Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five (song) , Pablo Picasso , Paul McCartney , The Beatles , Wings (band) Spotlighted: Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine on the album cover with (l-r) Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh According to Alan Partridge, Wings were ‘the band The Beatles could have been’. Yes, it’s fair to say few have agreed with him over the years.

However, like it or not, it’s indisputable that Paul McCartney’s post-Fabs pet project did manage to achieve both critical and mass success – once at least – with the 1973 super-smash album Band On The Run. Earlier this month, this very album found itself on the hot-to-trot shelves in record stores once again, as it was re-issued in three swish, dynamic new versions. Punters could buy a 1-disc, 3-disc or even a 4-disc deluxe edition (replete with a 120-page hardback book of previously unseen photos from behind-the-scenes of the record). But is it necessary? Does this album really deserve such a fuss to be made of it, or indeed even to be re-released? Well, I’m damned if I know – after all, it’s an album that’s hardly out of print in any case – but what I do know, and I’m sure of, is that Band On The Run is a fine album.

Sure, I’m a big Beatles fan, but I will freely admit that, in general, Paul McCartney’s solo (and/ or Wings-produced) work wasn’t as good nor do I like it as much as John Lennon’s – or maybe even George Harrison’s – solo work. However, just to dismiss the former’s post-Fabs career entirely, as some rather cruel music critics down through the decades have, is not something I’ll do either. There’s surely golden nuggets to be found in there, namely the singles Another Day, Maybe I’m Amazed, My Love and Live And Let Die. And, for me, the Band On The Run album is one of those shining moments too. We’re so street: Paul – with Linda and Denny – trying out the Macca charm on rather nonplussed-looking kids in downtown Lagos, but that’s the least of their troubles… However, it did take Macca three long years to deliver this shining moment.

Following the break-up of The Beatles in early 1970, McCartney and wife Linda (née Eastman) – a New York heiress and established photographer – upped sticks and moved their family, including Linda’s daughter Heather from her first marriage and the barely born Mary, to a farm on Scotland’s Mull of Kintyre. As he and his family lived an apparently idyllic existence, this period will always be remembered for Paul sporting a thick early post-Fabs beard, immortalised (as he cradles baby Mary in his coat) on the rear cover of his first solo album, McCartney. Far from well recalled nowadays, McCartney was actually a surefire hit; it was recorded while the finishing touches were applied to Let It Be and was released in March 1970, reaching #1 in America and #2 in the UK. Musically, however, it’s perhaps only truly memorable for the top song Maybe I’m Amazed, which was actually written a year before – and, oddly, its proper studio version has never been released as a single. McCartney didn’t rest on his laurels, though, releasing two albums in 1971.

The first, Ram, was written by Paul with input from Linda and came out in May. It wasn’t exactly critically acclaimed but, like McCartney, went down well with punters. The second, Wild Life, released in December, is perhaps more historically important as it was the first release of Macca’s new band Wings, officially formed the month before. Featuring Linda (most often on keyboards and delivering harmonies), former Moody Blues leader Denny Laine on lead guitar and Paul, well, doing everything else, Wings unfortunately didn’t get off to the most auspicious start, for Wild Life was pretty much ignored by the public and disappointed the critics. Following this, and realising they needed to gel and get out and properly play, Paul, Linda and Denny decided to go on tour around the UK – but they went about it in a surprising, very back-to-basics manner. Packing up their lives, they – complete with kids (including new McCartney baby Stella) – drove around the country, going from gig to gig, in a van. And the venues they frequented were far from Shea Stadium; more like student unions. Indeed, so limited had Wings’ output been so far, they tended to repeat two or three songs each set.

Still, the touring served its purpose – they became a tighter band and had earned a level of respect as a new three-piece that hadn’t attempted to jump the queue like some sort of supergroup, but had put the hours in reaching out to fans and converting others like any new band has to. Still, the proof would always be in the pudding that was their studio releases and their chart placings, and the new-look Wings (for it now boasted the additions of guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell) didn’t leave the public and critics waiting long for their next offering, Red Rose Speedway, released in May 1973. Unlike the group’s first album, this one went down well with the punters, peaking at #1 in both the US and Australia and at #5 in the UK. Indeed, featured on it too was the deep, rich, imperious My Love (predictably, Paul was inspired by Linda when writing it), which deservedly topped the charts in the States.

All the same, Red Rose Speedway left the critics cold – perhaps the band should have included on it the thrilling theme song they produced for the 1973 Bond film Live And Let Die, which they recorded during the album’s sessions? This single, after all, proved their first critical success, reached #2 on the US charts and was nominated for an Oscar. Either way, Paul & co. didn’t pause to ponder on it. Come September and the band were recording the next – their third – album. In Nigeria. Yes, that’s right, Nigeria. In hindsight, Macca’s decision to hop down to Africa to record the latest album of his fledgling group may seem a little odd, but it was always his intention to fly out somewhere exotic and record the thing outside the UK. Why? His idea was to soak up some non-British culture and customs that might find their way on to the recording. On his list was the rather salubrious Barbados, but mostly because of the uniqueness of the notion, he plumped for Lagos, Nigeria’s capital.

Unfortunately, however, the entirety of the band wasn’t exactly down with his decision and a day before they were due to set out, both McCullough and Seiwell pulled out of the trip, leaving McCartney, his wife and Laine to fly out on their own and, yes, record the whole album as a three-piece only. Which also meant that, adequate drummer though he was, Paul would now have to play drums on every track. Unprepared for this and, understandably, hurt by this slight, the trio now had a challenge on their hands, but this challenge was only to be increased by two significant factors. The first was their discovery that the EMI recording studio in Lagos they were to use was rather more basic than had been expected – McCartney had to suggest to studio assistants Innocent and Monday (two names he has claimed he relished saying) setting up individual recording booths within the studio, as if this were a new concept to the world of music. And the second was that, just days into their trip, Paul and Linda had the album’s demo tapes stolen when they were held up one night, ensuring the band now had to record the whole thing from memory. Not exactly very easy.

“[Band On The Run is] the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles.” ~ John Landau, music critic for Rolling Stone In spite of these setbacks, though – and, who knows, in some ways maybe because of them – they managed to hit their new album out of the ballpark. Released in early December in both the UK and the US after overdubs work was completed in London, the eponymous Band On The Run (named after its opening number) proved a knockout with the critics and, after a slow start, with the public too. On three separate occasions it hit the top spot in the US album charts, going platinum in the process. Over here, it rose to #1 on the album charts as well and remained there for seven weeks during the summer, ending up the best selling record of 1974. Indeed, a fair amount of the album’s success with the great unwashed is probably attributable to the popularity of its two singles. The first released off the album was its second tune, Jet (see video above). An explosion of melody, guitar, keyboard and brass, Jet is the perfect exponent of Wings at their best.

It’s an infectious tune that finely fits with the Glam Rock era in which it was recorded, but also stands up as a damn good listen on its own – playwright and critic Graham Reid has described it as a ‘power-pop gem’. It also features truly nonsensical lyrics (not for the first time for a McCartney recording, admittedly), with its narrative seeming to be about a woman’s desire to marry young and then the trouble this brings her; however, ‘her’ name Jet was actually derived from the McCartney farm’s pony of the same name. Released in February 1974, Jet reached #7 in both the UK and the US. Going several chart positions better on its release five months later (#1 Stateside and #3 over here) was the album’s opener, Band On The Run (see video below). An all-time classic pop song, it’s actually made up of three distinct melodic parts, very much in the manner of The Beatles’ Happiness Is A Warm Gun – the first part soft and lilting, the second more soft-rock and the third a fully fledged rock-out.

With its themes of going on the lamb and liberation, it was a conscious – if unsubtle and somewhat quaint – effort on McCartney’s part to tap into the feeling of anti-establishment escape prevalent in early ’70s youth culture. A little amusingly, it also features the line ‘If we ever get out of here’ that apparently Paul remembered being uttered by George Harrison during one of The Beatles’ infamous business meetings. The rest of the album, admittedly, does well to live up to its two openers, but certainly has a good bash at it and, doubtless, features a hell of a lot of variety in doing so. The third tune Bluebird is a soft, likeable and harmony-laden ballad; Mrs Vandebilt is a harder, strong bass-line driven effort, memorable for its ‘ho, hey ho’ chant; Let Me Roll It is McCartney’s favourite song from the album, a bluesy effort featuring a Lennon-like vocal delivery, it’s dominated by a simple but very effective guitar riff; Mamunia is a lilting, ecological-themed ditty showered with African rhythms and No Words is another effective – very ’70s – love song.

Helen Wheels (about the McCartneys’ Land Rover – ‘Hell On Wheels’) was included on the US version of the album, but not the UK’s. The album’s final two compositions perhaps deserve deeper focus. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me) owes its origins to a chance meeting between McCartney and actor Dustin Hoffman in Jamaica, while the former was holidaying there and the latter was filming the film Papillon with Steve McQueen there. Enjoying each other’s company, the two hung out for a few days, during which time Hoffman asked of the songwriter whether he could rustle up a tune about any subject – for instance one about painter Pablo Picasso’s last words ‘Drink to me’, as recorded in an article he’d just read in Time magazine. Macca said he’d give it a bash and the result, much to Dustin’s delight, was Band On The Run‘s penultimate song. To my taste, although an appealing melody, the number isn’t the band’s best, plagued by echoes of earlier songs on the album (Jet and Mrs Vandebilt), which are rather crowbarred into the thing.

However, for me, the album’s last number Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five is an undoubted triumph (see video at end of article). Reaching a rousing climax at its end, it’s a fatalistic, end-of-the-world, lovers-destined-to-be-together sort of tune driven brilliantly along by an irresistible piano line and percussion, while featuring rocking guitar work and Live And Let Die-style brass. It makes for more than a fitting finale to proceedings and, in recognition of its quality and its popularity among his fans, McCartney recently and rightfully added it to his tour set list. Midas touch: Wings taking flight as they receive Gold Discs for Band On The Run’s record sales All in all then, Band On The Run quickly established itself as the most popular and successful album released by any of The Beatles following the quartet’s break-up, as well as (on a personal level) McCartney’s first, proper and obvious salvo to the critics that he could do it on his own away from his former bandmates – and with songs he’d written on his own and after The Fabs’ untimely demise.

Indeed, in addition to selling around seven million copies worldwide and charming the critics, the album went on to win two Grammys in 1975 (Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Group and Best Harmonies). And yet, despite all of that, that’s not the end of the story. After all, who could forget maybe Band On The Run‘s most enduring hallmark? Yes, that album cover. As we all know, many of the best ideas are the simple ones and, having the band and a few celebs promoting an album with the title it has by being photographed as if caught in a spotlight after escaping from stir, has to rather nicely be up there with best of them. The brainchild of London-based photographer Clive Arrowsmith (who, among other things, directed the iconic Two Tribes video for Frankie Goes To Hollywood), the image was captured against a stable wall in Osterly Park, Hounslow, and rather wonderfully featured a random collection of famous ’70s faces in addition to those of Paul, Linda and Denny.

The additional ‘bandmates’ number famed screen actor Christopher Lee; the British institution that is chatshow host Michael Parkinson; Hollywood legend James Coburn; former Liberal MP, gourmet and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement Freud; comedian Kenny Lynch, who shared the bill with The Beatles at a number of their early performances, and Liverpool boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion-to-be John Conteh, whose fights Macca and his wife often attended. But why on earth did the photo feature this rag-tag – if rather impressive – bunch? Well, according to Paul, these were the only peeps whose numbers he had in his phonebook and were in the UK at the time. Go figure, I suppose. Still, to my mind, the off-kilter and fantastical touch their presence brings to the cover somehow fits and even enhances the album’s opening track with its appealing ‘storybook’-style tale of that ‘band on the run’. And, methinks, that’s very worthwhile. Plus, of course, it makes for a damn good album cover, something with which I’m sure Alan Partridge would agree.

~~~ For more on and to purchase the three new re-issued versions of Band On The Run, go to ~~~ Who are all those people on the cover of Wings' Band on the Run album? Who are all those people on the cover of Wings' Band on the Run album? Page 1 of 1 • Share • eddie on Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:14 am Last edited by eddie on Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:18 am; edited 1 time in total eddie Location : Desert Island eddie on Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:17 am BBC NEWS ONLINE: The cover of Paul McCartney and Wings'1 1973 album Band on the Run featured a number of stars of the day posing with the band. In the words of Paul, this mish-mash of celebrity was 'a bit of a laugh.' It is a pastiche of a prison break with the figures caught in a searchlight. So who were these faces and what has become of them?

On the sleeve, band members and guest stars are all mixed up but, from left to right, they are Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, Paul McCartney, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Linda McCartney, Christopher Lee, Denny Laine and John Conteh. The Band Sir Paul McCartney Paul had formed Wings after the split of The Beatles. He was getting used to being no longer part of the most successful band in the world. Wings, of course, could be nowhere near as successful as The Beatles had been, but this album restored some of Paul's rapidly-flagging credibility. Paul went on to have a highly successful solo career and has ventured into writing classical pieces. In 1984 his first classical piece was 'Eleanor's Dream', with the 'Liverpool Oratorio' becoming his first full-length piece, followed by 'Standing Stone'. He has, however, yet to learn how to write musical notation. His 2002 tour caused controversy when he decided to recredit the old Beatles' tracks he performed, naming the main or only writer first, so that his tracks were credited McCartney/Lennon. Hence he broke the long-standing agreement that songs be credited Lennon/McCartney.

Linda McCartney New York-born Linda Eastman was a photo journalist for Rolling Stone magazine when, in the late 1960s, she took a series of pictures of The Beatles. She fell in love with Paul and broke the hearts of many girls the world over by becoming Mrs McCartney. John Lennon also blamed her for the split-up of The Beatles. Critics say that Linda was only a member of Wings because she was Paul's wife, although she had some musical credibility with her keyboard playing. She and Paul spent only one night of their married life apart, when he had been arrested in Japan for carrying cannabis. Together with Paul she had a family of four children. As well as continuing with her photography she was an advocate for vegetarianism and animal rights, supporting charities such as Lynx (the UK anti-fur lobby) and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Following the success of her 1989 book Linda McCartney's Home Cooking she set up her own company producing vegetarian ready meals. She died of cancer in 1998. Denny Laine Denny had been in a variety of bands before teaming up with the McCartneys in Wings.

Most famously he was guitarist and vocalist for The Moody Blues who, despite only releasing one album, remain famous thanks to their lyrical version of 'Go Now'2, a tune that is associated very much with the 1960s era. He was also in an early line-up of the band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the incident in Japan, Wings never reunited. Paul branched out on a solo career, and so did Denny. His first effort, in a McCartneyesque moment, included his wife Jo Jo on vocals, as well as Wings drummer Steve Holly. The Denny Laine Band, as they became, only appeared on Denny's album Japanese Tears, did a tour and appeared on various TV shows - they never released an album. Several failed projects followed, along with a few solo albums, before he returned in 1994 to release four solo albums and become part of the original line-up of World Famous Rockers along with Spencer Davis (vocals, guitar), Michael Monarch (guitar), Randy Meisner (bass), Nick St Nicholas (bass) and Bruce Gary (drums3).

The Others James Coburn Coburn had been the star of several TV series, including Klondike and Acapulco in the 1960s, as well as making his film breakthrough in Our Man Flint. He carried on performing in a number of character roles in major dramas and comedic films. He had roles in Maverick (1994) and The Nutty Professor (1998), but he crowned his acting career when he received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1999 film Affliction, in which he played Nick Nolte's abusive father. He died in 2002. John Conteh Conteh was a leading British light-heavyweight boxer, born, like McCartney, in Liverpool. He was one of ten children in a family that had emigrated from Sierra Leone. He held the World Boxing Council title from 1974 to 1977. Bob Foster, who had previously held the title, refused to fight Conteh, who instead defeated Jorge Ahmunda of Argentina for the vacated title.

He successfully defended his title five times, the last two came after a 15-month absence from the ring after breaking his hand on two occasions while sparring. Conteh, like his predecessor, was stripped of the title for refusing to fight. In his case he pulled out of a fight against Miguel Cuello two days before it was due to take place in Monaco. He attempted a comeback to regain the title but, in 1979, he lost the first of his fights against Saad Muhammad on points after going the full 15 rounds. The following year he tried again, but was on the canvas five times before the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round. After this fight, he trashed his hotel room. He was living a rock star lifestyle after being an album star on a rock album. He attempted to fight on, but an irregularity was found at the base of his skull and his licence to fight was revoked. His boxing career over, his wife divorced him for having an affair. However, the last days of his career had also suffered due to excesses of alcohol and cocaine. He turned his life around, though. He kicked both habits and started to appear on TV as a boxing commentator and guest on game shows.

He has also turned his hand to acting, which, unlike Frank Bruno4, he appeared in productions other than pantomime and still pops up on shows, even after more than 20 years out of the ring. Sir Clement Freud Think of any famous Freud - Clement is related to them. He is a grandson of Sigmund. Clement, in his own right, was a successful broadcaster, writer and chef, and was at one time director of the Playboy Club. In 1973 he stood for the Liberal Party in the safe Conservative seat of the Isle of Ely5. He took 38% of the vote in the by-election at a seat the Liberals hadn't even contested in the 1970 general election, and he went on to defend it four times until he was defeated in 1987. He continues to appear on the Radio 4 show Just a Minute. He has been the rector of Dundee University and in 2002 he beat Germaine Greer in the election for new rector for Scotland's oldest university at St Andrews. His autobiography plays on his family history and love of wordplay when he titled it Freud Ego.

Christopher Lee CBE Born in 1922 to a colonel and an Italian Contessa, Lee served in the Royal Air Force and Special Forces during World War II. On being demobbed he sought employment in the film industry. He got work on stage, in opera and radio as well as having, for a period, a full-time contract with the Rank film studio. However, it was for the Hammer Horror films that he was best known, until his appearances as Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and as Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Altogether he has appeared in over 250 films. He has a number of distinctive acting credits and honours: He is the only actor who has portrayed Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft. He executed King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France. He has appeared in more sword fights in front of the camera than probably any other actor in history. In his early career he did all of his own stunts and still attempts to do as many as possible. He is an honorary member of three stuntmen's unions. He is the actor instantly recognisable as a vampire due to the time he spent making movies at Hammer.

The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats lists him as being the international star with the most screen credits. He was offered the role of James Bond before Sean Connery. Like Connery, he once played his golf off a scratch handicap6. He is the only cousin of Ian Fleming to appear in a Bond movie - in the film The Man with the Golden Gun. Kenny Lynch OBE Lynch is a Stepney-born black Londoner, the youngest of 13 children. He first appeared in 1951, aged 12, with his sister, the singer Maxine Daniels. At 16 he joined Ed Nichol's band and later Bob Miller's before joining the army in 1957. 'Mountain of Love', his debut single for the HMV record label, was a hit in 1960. In 1963 he had two successive top 10 hits: 'Up On The Roof' and 'You Can Never Stop Me Loving You'. Although the hits started to dry up, he continued to tour and perform. He also appeared on numerous TV game and variety shows. He even hosted Celebrity Squares for a while.

He co-wrote the Small Faces' top ten hit 'Sha La La La Lee'. In 1983, he had a surprise chart return with a Brit-funk track 'Half The Day's Gone and We Haven't Earned a Penny on Satril'. He is still performing and recording today, as well as being involved in charity work. Michael Parkinson CBE Yorkshire-born 'Parkie' was the king of chatshows at the time of the release of Band on the Run. There are claims that he appeared on the sleeve on the promise of interviewing Paul on his show, though the interview finally took place in 2001. In the days when TV shut down for the night, his was the show which ended a Saturday night's entertainment at 11pm. However, he started out as a local journalist in Yorkshire, before going on to the Manchester Guardian. After that he became a feature writer for the Daily Express newspaper. His TV career naturally started on Granada news bulletins, but his passion for sport soon came through when, in 1965, he started to write a weekly sports column in The Sunday Times.

In 1969 he moved away from news on TV, presenting Granada's cinema review series. Then in 1971 he started an afternoon show - Teabreak - for Thames, which for a while he presented with his wife Mary before she took it over. The same year also saw the start of the chatshow Parkinson, which he also went on to produce in Australia. The first run finished in 1982, but he came back to the BBC in 1995 and is still producing classic Parkinson interview shows. Between 1982 and 1995 he had returned to independent television and presented a number of chatshows as well as the long running charades game show Give Us a Clue. He continues to write for newspapers as well as appearing on radio and TV. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 There is no credit on the cover, just the sleeve, and EMI had forced the addition of Paul's name as Wings had not been successful up until the release of Band on the Run. 2 The song became part of Wings' live repertoire. 3 Monarch and St Nicholas were in Steppenwolf, Meisner in The Eagles and Gray in Knack.

As for Davis, he is Spencer Davis. 4 British ex-boxer who turned to a theatrical 'career'. 5 This constituency has existed since 1983, in north-east Cambridgeshire. 6 A scratch handicap is when you've got a handicap of zero, ie when you play a round of golf, you don't deduct any points from your final scoure. eddie Re: Who are all those people on the cover of Wings' Band on the Run album? Yakima Canutt on Sat Mar 10, 2012 10:16 pm Ali Mall is the very first major shopping mall in the Philippines. It is located at Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City near SM Cubao. The mall was named after World Champion Boxer, Muhammad Ali. The mall was built in the 1976, making it one of the oldest malls in the country. Recently, they relaunched the new Cinemas and Food Court. Construction on the mall began in 1975 after Muhammad Ali's boxing victory between Joe Frazier in Araneta Coliseum. The Ali-Frazier fight was called "Thrilla in Manila".

In the 1970s, there were no malls in the entire country, so Ali addressed a speech to the Philippines to build a shopping mall near the Big Dome in honor of his victory ... a shopping mall with a floor area of 62,000 sq.m. In the 1980s, the mall has been undergoing expansions and renovations since its construction. In 2009, an expansion to Ali Mall was opens. Anchors Macca Fans visit Osterley Park - 2009 by Michele Copp - issuu Issuu on Google+ Macca fans to re-create Band On The Run On Saturday 13th June 2009, Paul McCartney fans and Beatles fans including members of the British Beatles Fan Club gathered at Osterley House in a bid to re‐create the classic sleeve photo for the album Band on the Run. Ernie Sutton reports. The album sleeve was originally shot there in 1973 and featured notable celebrities including Michael Parkinson, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee, John Conteh and Kenny Lynch, as well as the members of Wings, dressed as convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight.

Fans from across the UK, some as far as Bristol and Chester met at Osterley station at 11.30am. We proceeded to make our way to Osterley Park on foot, and after a short break for refreshments and a picnic lunch in the baking hot weather, we arrived at Osterley House. The house itself was built in 1576 and stands in 746 acres and is now owned by the National Trust, who also own the childhood homes of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in Liverpool. Having found the appropriate wall when the picture was taken, everyone then posed as one of the stars on the original sleeve, trying to get as close a match to the album as possible. In front of the wall stood a bench, which James Coburn must have used at the time of the shoot—is it the same bench? Well, we don't know. A guide at the house, holding an exhibition in the gallery behind where we were filming, offered to take pictures for us and so everyone with a camera got a shot of themselves re‐creating the famous sleeve. We are extremely grateful to her for helping us out.

fter the shoot we took time to browse the grounds before heading back to the station at 4pm. We went our separate ways but look forward to the next event. We are hoping to visit the pub in Caversham (The Fox and Hounds), where John and Paul performed their one and only gig as the Nerk Twins and film a London DVD in the near future taking in famous sites around the capital linked to The Beatles. All pages: Macca Fans visit Osterley Park - 2009 Michele Copp Follow publisher Unfollow publisher Be the first to know about new publications. Paul McCartney And Wings - Band On The Run - YouTube Paul McCartney And Wings - Band On The Run Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on May 25, 2010 The famous cover for Band On The Run features not only Paul, wife Linda and Denny (Laine) but also Michael Parkinson, James Coburn, Christopher Lee, Clement Freud, Kenny Lynch and John Conteh.

Category New Lyric Video: 'Band on the Run' | PaulMcCartney.com 2014 New Lyric Video: 'Band on the Run' Today PaulMcCartney.com publishes a new lyric video for the Paul McCartney and Wings song 'Band on the Run'. The video was directed and produced by visual artist Ben Ib. If you have seen Paul live in recent years you may already be familiar with his work as he has also created several of the tour screens. Watch it below... April 2014 marks the ‘Band on the Run’ U.S. single’s anniversary, released as a 7” on 8th April, 1974 (28th June 1974 in the UK, fact fans!). The Band on the Run album was recorded in EMI Studios, Lagos and AIR Studios, London between August and October of 1973. Wings were without a drummer at the time so Paul stepped in and recorded all the drum tracks himself. It was during the Lagos sessions that Paul and Linda were mugged losing their money, camera and the original album demos to the thieves! This unfortunate event didn’t stop Band on the Run from becoming Wings’ most successful album.

It was the top selling album in the UK in 1974 and reached no.1 in the US on 3 separate occasions. It has gone on to sell over 7 million copies worldwide. The 'band on the run' on the iconic front cover features broadcasters Michael Parkinson and Clement Freud, singer / actor Kenny Lynch, actor James Coburn, actor Christopher Lee, boxer John Conteh as well as Paul, Linda and Denny Laine The album was re-mastered and reissued in 2010 as the first release in the on-going Paul McCartney Archive Collection, featuring previously unreleased performances and rare documentary footage. Get your copy of the remastered Band on the Run here: Tony Curtis's death means Sgt Pepper's band's more lonely - The Caledonian Mercury Tony Curtis's death means Sgt Pepper's band's more lonely Tweet on Twitter Last week was a sad week for admirers of icons from Old Hollywood. Arthur Penn, who gave us Bonnie and Clyde. Gloria Stewart, best known for Titanic but loved by older movie fans for The Three Musketeers and 1939’s It Could Happen to You. Joe Mantell, the man who uttered “ Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown ”.

And, of course, Tony Curtis. All gone. Curtis’s passing marked the end of another significant chapter in pop culture. The clue is in the T-shirt in this picture . The man who lit up Some Like It Hot and The Sweet Smell of Success also popped up on Peter Blake’s cover-art for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The sleeve, originally intended to be populated by northern council dignitaries, instead became a free-form confection of philosophers, artists, painters, dancers, writers, gurus from India (presumably at the request of George) and wax dummies belonging to a hairdresser (the credit for this idea remains fuzzy). There were a few who didn’t make the cut for the cover because of taste (Adolf Hitler), religious sensitivity (Gandhi, Jesus Christ) and demands from agents for $400 in royalties (Angels With Dirty Faces star Leo Gorcey). The majority of individuals on the cover had died before the album’s release from Laurel & Hardy to former prime minister Sir Robert Peel, Karl Marx to Dr Sigmund Freud, Marilyn Monroe to Blantyre’s David Livingstone.

Just to break it down for the chronologically-minded, here’s a list of people on the cover of Sgt Pepper who were alive when it was released in June 1967:- Former world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston (died 1970) A girl by Esquire magazine artist George Petty (d1975) Wallace Berman (d1976) A pin-up girl by artist Alberto Vargas (d1982) Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller (d1984) Liverpool and Newcastle striker Albert Stubbins (d2002) Marlon Brando (d2004) Karlheinz Stockhausen (a particular favourite composer of McCartney’s, d2007) Richard Merkin (illustrator for The New Yorker, died September 2009) John Lennon (d1980) George Harrison (d2001) Now that Curtis has stopped Getting Better (apologies for that), may I introduce to you the current survivors from the sleeve:- Dion (Francis DiMucci), aged 71, most famous for The Wanderer, currently living in Florida and practising prison ministry.

Sculptor Larry Bell, also born in 1939, most famous for being one of the West Coast “Light and Space” artists and his work with architect Frank Gehry. Former child star Shirley Temple, now winning Lifetime Achievement awards at 82. Bob Dylan, 69 years of age, most famous for being Bob Dylan Canadian singer Bobby Breen, 82, now living in Florida running his own talent agency. Cloth figure by US pop artist and former wife of sleeve co-designer Peter Blake, Jann Haworth (b1942) Paul McCartney, 68 Ringo Starr, 70 The entire list is on Wikipedia if you want to check but fans of Paul McCartney & Wings’ 1973 album Band On The Run will have more luck running into its cover stars. Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, John Conteh and Christopher Lee all remain with us, and Clement Freud died only last year. James Coburn lived until 2002. But as Pepper is the truly iconic sleeve, let’s cherish Messrs Dimucci, Bell, Temple, Dylan, Breen, Haworth, McCartney and Starr and the man who put it all together, Peter Blake.

Peter Blake , McCartney and Dylan are the only ones still touring. Even if they have been going in and out of style. TAGS

Question: Michael Parkinson, James Coburn, Clement Freud and Christopher Lee all appear on which 1973 album cover?
Answer: Band on the Run