Rehearsals for the theoretical tour continued across the ocean in late August at McCartneyвЂ™s old stomp: Abbey Road studios! But McCartney thought a little more of these activities than just simply rehearsals, as he employed boy-genius engineer Geoff Emerick to record the session, as well as David Litchfield to film and direct the sessions for a possible documentary film release. While they were there, Wings also recorded the single вЂњJuniorвЂ™s FarmвЂќ (one of this authorвЂ™s favorite Wings songs) as well as a handful of country-tinged tracks under the name The Country Hams. Wings finally recruited drummer Geoff Britton and headed to Nashville in July to rehearse for a planned tour of Australia. A month before Band On The RunвЂ™s December 1973 release, Wings broke in their new guitarist Jimmy McCulloch by recording some of LindaвЂ™s songs as Suzy and The Red Stripes, as well as a session for PaulвЂ™s brother Michael, as McGear, in February 1974. This eventually led to the second major change for Wings: a new line-up. Miraculously, the album was a product of the trio of Paul, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, as drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough quit the band just before the start of the albumвЂ™s recording sessions. Firstly, it was McCartneyвЂ™s first post-Beatles вЂњmasterpiece albumвЂќ, finally equaling the quality of a typical Beatles album. The arrival of Band on The Run signaled a few changes in Paul McCartney & Wings. All tracks have been sequenced in the actual recording order, spread across four sides of a vinyl record. This reconstruction attempts to replicate what a double-LP release in 1974 could have been like, using the best possible sources, including official releases and painstakingly-remastered bootleg recordings. Despite the high quality of live studio performances-especially of the then-unreleased вЂњSoilyвЂќ-McCartney shelved the entire project, as was the fate of a number of other self-financed Wings film projects throughout the 70s and 80s.

Originally meant as the studio rehearsals for a 1974 Wings Over Australia tour that never happened, the proceedings were filmed for a possible film release, akin to The BeatlesвЂ™ Get Back project eight years earlier. This is a reconstruction of the proposed 1974 live in-the-Abbey Road studio album One Hand Clapping by Paul McCartney & Wings. My how time flies! Why is the pandemic not over yet!? Sorry for the delay, but itвЂ™s finally here- the second of a trilogy of famous live albums that never were, in memory of the live music we canвЂ™t quite yet experience again.

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