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Wings At The Speed Of Sound - Archive Collection
By Wings • Official album • Part of the collection "Paul McCartney Archive Collection"
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Concord Music Group
Wings At The Speed Of Sound
By Wings
This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
Recording "Beware My Love"
Recording "The Note You Never Wrote"
"At The Speed Of Sound" sessions #2
Recording "Must Do Something About It"
Mixing "Must Do Something About It"
Recording "She's My Baby"
Recording "Wino Junko"
Recording "Silly Love Songs"
Recording "Message To Joe"
Recording "Time To Hide"
Recording "San Ferry Anne"
Recording "Warm And Beautiful"
Recording "Let 'Em In"
Recording "Cook Of The House"
Mixing "Beware My Love"
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Silly Love Songs / Cook Of The House
Let 'Em In / Beware My Love
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
Backing vocals, Piano, Producer, Vocals
Backing vocals, Military drum (?)
Jimmy McCulloch :
Howie Casey :
Flutes, Horns
Joe English :
Thaddeus Richard :
Assistant mixing engineer, Assistant recording engineer
Pete Henderson :
Steve Howard :
Tony Dorsey :
Session Overdubs:
The Note You Never Wrote
Backing vocals, Bass, Electric piano (?), Flute (?), Mellotron (?), Producer
Backing vocals, Keyboards, Tambourine (?)
Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Flute (?), Vocals
Drums, Percussion, Tambourine (?)
Tony Clark :
Fiachra Trench :
String arrangement
Backing vocals, Bass (?), Electric guitar (?), Electric piano, Keyboards, Producer, Vocals
Backing vocals, Bass (?)
Electric guitar (?)
Beware My Love
Acoustic guitar (?), Bass, Vocals
Backing vocals, Keyboards, Vocals
Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Piano
Acoustic guitar (?), Electric guitar
Mixing engineer, Recording engineer (intro & outro)
Wino Junko
Written by Jimmy McCulloch, Colin Allen
Paul McCartney • Linda McCartney • Denny Laine • Jimmy McCulloch • Joe English
Backing vocals, Bass, Mellotron (?), Percussion (?), Piano (?), Producer, String conductor, Vocals
Backing vocals, Tambourine (?)
Backing vocals, Piano (?)
Drums, Percussion (?)
Horns, String arrangements
Cook Of The House
Backing vocals, Double-bass, Mellotron, Piano, Producer
Backing vocals, Electric guitar
Time To Hide
Written by Denny Laine
Must Do Something About It
Acoustic guitar (?), Backing vocals, Bass, Producer, Shaker (?)
Tambourine (?)
Acoustic guitar (?)
Drums, Percussion (?), Shaker (?), Vocals
San Ferry Anne
Acoustic guitar, Bass, Producer, Vocals
Warm And Beautiful
Piano, Producer, Vocals
String quartet arrangement, Two tenor horns arrangement
2:46 • Demo • C
Message To Joe
Written by Paul McCartney
Producer, Vocoder
5:35 • Outtake • B • John Bonham Version
Eddie Klein :
John Bonham :
Phil Chapman :
Nigel Brooke-Harte :
Olympic Sound Studios, London
Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
3:38 • Outtake • B • Paul's Version
4:18 • Demo • B
Mouth drums, Piano, Producer, Vocals
1:30 • Demo • C • Instrumental demo.
Electric piano, Producer
In 2014 the album is set to be re-issued by Hear Music/Concord Music Group as part of the fifth set of releases, alongside Venus and Mars, in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. It was released in multiple formats:
Standard Edition 2-CD; the original 11-track album on the first disc, plus 7 bonus tracks on a second disc.
Deluxe Edition 2-CD/1-DVD; the original 13-track album, the bonus tracks disc, and hardback book featuring unpublished photographs, new interviews with Paul, material from Paul's archives and expanded track-by-track information. The deluxe version bonus DVD will comprised filmed material from around the time of each release, some of which has never been seen before. The DVD features rare and previously unseen footage, including the documentaries "Wings Over Wembley", "Wings In Venice "and the "Silly Love Songs" music video.
Remastered vinyl The albums will also be available on special gatefold vinyl editions (vinyl editions include a download card).
High Resolution Digital album will be made available as both standard and deluxe versions – including Mastered for iTunes and Hi-Res formats.
Paul from the 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound' album artwork. Taken by Clive Arrowsmith
https://www.paulmccartney.com/the-collection/throwbackthursday-2015