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Album by Paul McCartney and Wings

1973 studio album by Paul McCartney and Wings

Ring on the Run
Studio album by Paul McCartney and Wings
Released	5 December 1973 (United states) 30 November 1973 (United kingdom)
Recorded	Baronial–October 1973
Studio	EMI and ARC, Lagos, Nigeria; AIR and Kingsway Recorders, London[1]
Genre	Rock
Length	41:08 (UK version) 44:17 (US version)
Label	Apple
Producer	Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings chronology
Cerise Rose Speedway (1973) Band on the Run (1973) Venus and Mars (1975)
Singles from Band on the Run
"Helen Wheels" Released: 23 October 1973 "Jet" Released: 28 January 1974 "Band on the Run" Released: eight April 1974

Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock ring Paul McCartney and Wings, released in Dec 1973. Information technology was McCartney's 5th album after leaving the Beatles in Apr 1970. Although sales were modest initially, its commercial functioning was aided past 2 hit singles – "Jet" and "Ring on the Run" – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia, in add-on to revitalising McCartney's critical standing. Information technology remains McCartney's nigh successful album and the most historic of his post-Beatles works.

The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, equally McCartney wanted to brand an anthology in an exotic location. Shortly before parting for Lagos, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group. With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts.^[ii] The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and hard; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of vocal lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.

In 2000, Q mag placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, it was listed at 418 on Rolling Stone'southward revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".^[3] A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as beingness "with the possible exception of John Lennon'due south Plastic Ono Ring, the finest record still released past any of the four musicians who were once called the Beatles".^[4] It was McCartney'southward last album issued on the Apple record label. In 2013, Band on the Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[5]

Background [edit]

Paul thought, 'I've got to do it, either I surrender and cut my throat or [I] go my magic back.'^[6]

– Linda McCartney to Sounds magazine

By 1973, 3 years later the suspension-up of the Beatles, Paul McCartney had yet to regain his artistic brownie or observe favour with music critics for his post-Beatles work.^{[7] [8]} After completing a successful Uk bout with his ring Wings, in July 1973,^[9] he planned their third album as a means to re-establish himself afterward the mixed reception given to Wild Life and Cerise Rose Speedway.^{[10] [11]}

Cracking to record exterior the Britain, McCartney asked EMI to send him a list of all their international recording studios. He selected Lagos in Nigeria and was attracted to the thought of recording in Africa. In August, the band – consisting of McCartney and his married woman Linda, ex-Moody Dejection guitarist and pianist Denny Laine, Henry McCullough on lead guitar, and Denny Seiwell on drums – started rehearsals for the new album at the McCartneys' Scottish farm. During one rehearsal session, McCullough and McCartney argued, and McCullough quit.^[12] Seiwell left a calendar week later, the night before the ring flew out to Nigeria.^[xiii] This left just McCartney, Linda and Laine to tape in Lagos, assisted by erstwhile Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. McCartney had chosen Lagos, equally he felt information technology would be a glamorous location where he and the band could sun on the beach during the twenty-four hours and tape at dark; the reality, nevertheless, was that subsequently the end of a civil war in 1970, Nigeria was run past a military regime, with corruption and disease commonplace.^{[14] [xv]}

Recording [edit]

The ring and their entourage arrived in Lagos on ix August 1973.^[1] EMI'southward studio, located on Wharf Road in the suburb of Apapa, was ramshackle and under-equipped. The control desk was faulty and in that location was simply one tape machine, a Studer viii-runway. The band rented houses near the aerodrome in Ikeja, an hour away from the studio. McCartney, Linda and their three children stayed in one, while Laine, his wife JoJo, Emerick, and Wings' two roadies stayed in another.

The group established a routine of recording during the week and playing tourist on the weekends. McCartney temporarily joined a local land club, where he would spend near mornings. The ring would be driven to the studio in the early afternoon where recording would last into the late evening and sometimes early morning. To make upward for the departed band members, McCartney would play drums and atomic number 82 guitar parts, in addition to his contributions on bass guitar, with Laine playing rhythm guitar and Linda adding keyboards.^[two] The first runway they recorded at Apapa was "Mamunia",^[xvi] the title for which McCartney appropriated from the proper name of a hotel in Marrakesh where Wings had stayed in Apr 1973.^[17]

It'southward a drove of songs and the bones thought about the band on the run is a kind of prison house escape. At the kickoff of the anthology, the guy is stuck within iv walls and breaks out. There is a thread, but non a concept.^[sixteen]

– Paul McCartney

Several of the songs on Band on the Run reflect themes of escape and freedom,^[18] while the structure of the album recalled the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Lodge Band and Abbey Road.^[19] The song "Band on the Run" was partly inspired by a remark George Harrison had fabricated during one of the many business concern meetings the Beatles attended in 1969,^[16] in an effort to address the bug afflicting their Apple Corps enterprise. Iv years later, the album'due south creation coincided with what author Peter Doggett terms McCartney'southward "moral victory in the debate over Allen Klein", equally Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr now became embroiled in litigation against Klein^[xx] – the business manager they had appointed to run Apple tree in 1969, despite strong opposition from McCartney.^[21] Doggett writes that McCartney was perhaps liberated creatively by this recent evolution, resulting in Band on the Run bearing "a frothy self-confidence that was reminiscent of the Beatles at their near productive".^[22]

Bated from the challenges presented by the substandard studio, diverse incidents plagued Wings' Lagos stay. While out walking one night confronting advice, McCartney and Linda were robbed at knifepoint. The assailants made abroad with all of their valuables and even stole a handbag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and songs, and cassettes containing demos for songs to be recorded.^[vii] On some other occasion, McCartney was overdubbing a song track when he began gasping for air. According to Emerick: "Inside seconds, [McCartney] turned as white as a sheet, explaining to us in a croaking voice that he couldn't grab his breath. We decided to accept him outside for some fresh air ... [but] in one case he was exposed to the blazing heat he felt even worse and began keeling over, finally fainting dead away at our feet. Linda began screaming hysterically; she was convinced that he was having a heart set on ... The official diagnosis was that he had suffered a bronchial spasm brought on past besides much smoking."^[23] Another incident was the confrontation with local Afrobeat pioneer and political activist Fela Kuti, who publicly defendant the band of existence in Africa to exploit and steal African music subsequently their visit to his lodge. Kuti went to the studio to face up McCartney, who played their songs for him to prove that they contained no local influence. Subsequently, drummer and former Cream member Ginger Baker invited Wings to record their unabridged anthology at his ARC Studio in Ikeja. McCartney agreed to go there for one 24-hour interval. The vocal "Picasso'south Last Words (Drinkable to Me)" was recorded at ARC, with Baker contributing a percussive tin of gravel.

[Paul and I] made the album equally though we weren't in a band, as though we were simply two producers/musicians.^[24]

– Denny Laine

Recording for the majority of the anthology's bones tracks, together with initial overdubbing, was completed after six weeks in Nigeria.^[25] After hosting a beach barbecue to celebrate the end of recording,^[23] Wings flew back to England on 23 September 1973^[26] where they were met by fans and journalists.^[1] Upon returning to London, the McCartneys received a alphabetic character from EMI dated before the ring had left England warning them to non get to Lagos due to an outbreak of cholera.^[27]

In October, two weeks subsequently the band's return to London, work began at George Martin's AIR Studios on transferring many of the eight-rails recordings to sixteen-runway.^[25] "Jet", named after ane of the McCartneys' Labrador puppies, was recorded in its entirety at AIR.^{[28] [29]} McCartney, Laine and Linda carried out farther overdubs on the Lagos recordings during this period; all the orchestral arrangements for the album were taped at AIR in a single day, conducted past Tony Visconti.^[25] Visconti was given three days to write the arrangements, including the 60-piece orchestra for the title track. Visconti said that the arrangements were collaborations with McCartney, and was surprised he was non correctly credited for his work until the 25th anniversary reissue.^[30] Another contributor was saxophonist Howie Casey, who overdubbed solos on "Bluebird", "Mrs. Vanderbilt"^[16] and "Jet", and would go along to become Wings' regular horn thespian.^[31] Final mixing on the album was completed over 3 days at London's Kingsway Studios in early November.^[i]

"Helen Wheels" was released as a non-album single in late October, and became a superlative 10 hit in America the following Jan.^[32] For commercial reasons, Capitol Records, the US distributor for Apple Records, asked to include "Helen Wheels" on the anthology. McCartney agreed, although it was never his intention to include the rail.^[33] While "Helen Wheels" is not included on United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland versions of the Band on the Run CD (except as a bonus cutting on the 1993 "The Paul McCartney Collection" edition of the CD), it has always appeared on US editions of the CD starting with the initial Columbia Records release in 1984. Early versions of the Capitol release fail to list "Helen Wheels" on the label or the CD insert, making the song a "hidden rails".

Cover artwork [edit]

The album cover photograph was taken at Osterley Park, west London, on 28 October 1973 by photographer Clive Arrowsmith.^[25] Information technology depicts McCartney, Linda and Laine plus half-dozen other well-known people dressed as convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight.^[34] They are Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh.^[34] Arrowsmith detailed that the eventual cover was ane of the 4 he found adequate in the 24 attempts he took. The spotlight'south low dominance meant everyone had to stand still for 2 seconds for proper exposure, which was made difficult by the photographer and subjects reportedly existence in a "substance haze" following a party held by McCartney, making it harder for them to concord the pose. The golden hue of the picture is due to Arrowsmith using a regular daytime film instead of a Tungsten film, which would be better suited for night-fourth dimension photographs.^[35]

Release [edit]

Apple Records issued Band on the Run on 5 Dec 1973 in America (as Apple So 3415),^[36] with the UK release following 2 days later on^[37] (equally Apple PAS 10007).^[38] Rather than having the ring promote the album on radio and tv or with a bout, McCartney undertook a serial of magazine interviews, most notably with Paul Gambaccini for Rolling Rock.^[39] The conversations with Gambaccini took place at various locations from September 1973 onwards^[40] and combined to form, in the words of authors Scrap Madinger and Mark Easter, "a remarkably forthcoming interview in comparison to the 'thumbs-aloft' profiles usually allowed by [McCartney]".^[39]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional person ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Christgau'southward Record Guide	C+[41]
Mojo	[42]
MusicHound Rock	4/5[43]
PopMatters	[44]
Record Collector	[45]
Rolling Stone	[46]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[47]
Uncut	[48]
Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[49]

Upon release, Band on the Run received mostly favourable reviews. Author Robert Rodriguez writes that, afterward the thwarting of McCartney's previous work since the Beatles, "It was exactly the record fans and critics had long hoped he would make …"^[50]

In a combined review for Starr's concurrently released Ringo album, Charles Shaar Murray of the NME wrote: "The ex-Beatle least likely to re-establish his credibility and lead the field has pulled it off with a positive master-stroke of an album entitled Band On The Run." In improver to praising McCartney for using synthesizer "like an instrument, and not like an electrical whoopee absorber", Shaar Murray concluded: "Ring On The Run is a great album. If everyone ever puts downwards McCartney in your presence, bust him in the snoot and play him this. He volition cheers for information technology afterwards."^[51]

Writing in The New York Times, Loraine Alterman considered the album to be "bursting with a dandy deal of compelling music fifty-fifty if the lyrics at times brand as much sense as that embrace photo" and admired the "fascinating range of sounds" offered in the title track, also as the "lovely, romantic aura" of "Bluebird". While noting the importance of studio product on the overall result, Alterman wrote: "McCartney has managed to make the complexities of multi-track recording audio as natural and fresh as tomorrow."^[52] Jon Landau of Rolling Rock described the anthology as "with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, the finest tape yet released past whatever of the four musicians who were in one case called the Beatles".^[4] Rolling Stone named Ring on the Run ane of the Best Albums of the Year for 1973.^[53]

Hamlet Vocalisation critic Robert Christgau wrote in 1981: "I originally underrated what many consider McCartney's definitive post-Beatles statement, but not as much equally its admirers overrate it. Pop masterpiece? This? Sure it'due south a relief after the vagaries of Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway." He praised the title track and the "Afro-soul" introduction to "Mamunia", calling them "the high points". Christgau ultimately awarded the album a C+ rating, indicating "a non disreputable performance, nigh likely a failed experiment or a pleasant piece of hackwork".^[41] In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine feels that while some songs are first-class and the anthology overall is enjoyable, information technology is more than showmanship than content.^[10] The Rolling Stone reviewer of the 30th Anniversary Palatial Edition said that "the real activity still lies in the original LP's revved-upwards pleasures".^[46] Writing for Mojo magazine in 2011, John Harris included Ring on the Run among "the trilogy of truly essential mail-Beatles solo albums", along with Harrison's All Things Must Laissez passer and Lennon'southward Plastic Ono Band.^[54]

In 2000, Q mag placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Always". In 2012, it was voted 418th on Rolling Stone 'south revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".^[three] The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Earlier Y'all Die.^[55]

Commercial performance [edit]

The commercial reception was unspectacular initially, with the record-buying public wary after Wings' preceding releases.^{[56] [57]} On the UK Albums Nautical chart, Band on the Run climbed to number 9 on 22 December,^[58] remaining there for a second week before dropping to number 13.^[59] On America'due south Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, it peaked at number vii on 2 February 1974 and so spent the next six weeks in the lower reaches of the top ten.^[threescore] The album went on to reach considerable success, however, thanks to the popularity of the two singles culled from information technology – "Jet" and the title runway.^{[6] [25]} Writing in 1981, Bob Woffinden described Band on the Run equally the first Beatles-related release to be "planned with a marketing strategy",^[56] as Capitol Records now assumed a fully active office in promoting the album following the removal of Klein's ABKCO Industries as managers of Apple. Although McCartney had been reluctant to issue album tracks as singles,^[61] the public's apparent lack of involvement in Ring on the Run led to him ceding to the recommendations of Capitol'south head of marketing, Al Coury,^[62] who had similarly pushed for the inclusion of "Helen Wheels". McCartney therefore authorised single edits for the two new A-sides.^[29]

"Jet" was issued on 28 Jan in America, with "Mamunia" as the B-side for the single's initial pressings, although this was soon replaced past "Let Me Roll It", which was the B-side for the UK release, on fifteen Feb.^[63] The single's success provided new impetus for the anthology,^{[64] [65]} which hit number 2 in the United kingdom at the end of March^[66] and topped Billboard 'south listings on xiii April.^[60] Apple issued "Band on the Run" on viii April in America, backed by "Nineteen Hundred and Lxxx-Five";^[67] the Great britain release followed on 28 June, with the non-album instrumental "Zoo Gang" as the B-side.^[68] Due to the popularity of "Band on the Run",^[25] the album returned to number 1 on Billboard on 8 June, when the single simultaneously topped the Hot 100.^[69] In Britain, the anthology finally hit number 1 on 27 July,^[70] for the first of seven consecutive weeks at the elevation.^{[71] [72]} On the culling Britain listings compiled by Melody Maker, Band on the Run remained in the top 10 from 26 January through to 23 November 1974. During that time, its chart performance similarly reflected the popularity of the two singles, with the album spending three weeks at number 2 in April, and six weeks at number one throughout August and the offset week of September.^[73]

The anthology topped the Billboard nautical chart on three dissever occasions during 1974,^[lx] and was the top selling album of that year in Commonwealth of australia^[74] and Canada.^[75] In Britain, it came 2nd in the year-end standings, behind the compilation The Singles: 1969–1973 by the Carpenters.^[76] Through this success with Wings, McCartney established himself as the most commercially successful of the four quondam Beatles.^{[22] [56]} Rodriguez views the album'south arrival at number i on Billboard, in Apr 1974, every bit the moment when McCartney usurped George Harrison as the "ex-Beatle Well-nigh Probable to Succeed", so showtime a period of public acclaim that reached its zenith with the Wings Over America Tour in 1976.^[77]

Band on the Run was eventually certified triple platinum past the Recording Industry Clan of America; it would go on to sell 6 million copies worldwide^[67] and become EMI's peak selling anthology of the 1970s in the Great britain.^[56] Its continued success through 1974 was too benign in allowing Wings to recruit a new guitarist and drummer, and to integrate them into the band earlier outset new recordings.^[78]

Reissues [edit]

In 1993, Band on the Run was remastered and reissued on CD as office of the Paul McCartney Collection series with "Helen Wheels" and its B-side, "Country Dreamer", as bonus tracks. In 1996, information technology was released on five.1 Music Disc. In May 2007, the album was made available through the iTunes Store.

In 1999, Band on the Run: 25th Ceremony Edition, a special extended edition of the album, was released to coincide with twenty-five years after the anthology began to accept off in March 1974 afterward a slow commencement.^[79] On this version, "Helen Wheels" appeared every bit rails eight, betwixt "No Words" and "Picasso'southward Terminal Words (Drink to Me)", every bit it had been positioned on the original U.s. release. The package includes an actress disc of live renditions of songs throughout the years, likewise equally brief new renditions by McCartney. Spoken testimonials are also included from McCartney himself, late married woman Linda (to whom this retrospective release is dedicated), Laine, Dustin Hoffman (the inspiration behind "Picasso's Last Words"), and the celebrity faces on the cover, including James Coburn, who was in Britain at the time filming The Internecine Project, and Christopher Lee.

On two November 2010, the album was reissued by Hear Music/Hold Music Group every bit the first release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection.^[80] It was released in multiple formats:^[81]

• A single CD featuring the original UK version of the anthology
• A 2-CD/1-DVD Special Edition which includes a CD and a DVD of bonus fabric in add-on to the original album
• A 2-CD/2-DVD Special Edition sold only at All-time Buy which includes a CD and 2 DVDs of bonus material in addition to the original album
• A iii-CD/i-DVD Deluxe Edition which has the aforementioned material also every bit an audio documentary originally produced for the anthology'south 25th Anniversary release. Information technology comes with a 120-folio hardbound containing photos by Linda McCartney and Clive Arrowsmith, a history of the album and additional material
• A 2-Disc Vinyl Edition containing the same audio material equally the Special Edition
• A (Record Store Day 2010 sectional) vinyl single of "Band On The Run" and "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-V" ^[82]
• High Resolution 24bit 96 kHz with no dynamic range compression^[83] limited and unlimited audio versions of all 18 songs on the remastered album and bonus audio disc.

Rail listing [edit]

All songs written by Paul and Linda McCartney, except where noted.^[84]

Original release [edit]

Side One

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Band on the Run"	5:12
2.	"Jet"	four:09
3.	"Bluebird"	iii:23
4.	"Mrs. Vandebilt"	4:forty
5.	"Let Me Roll Information technology"	4:51

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(due south)	Length
6.	"Mamunia"		4:51
7.	"No Words"	P. McCartney, Laine	2:35
8.	"Helen Wheels" (Boosted track but on the US release.)		3:44
9.	"Picasso's Last Words (Drinkable to Me)"		5:49
10.	"19 Hundred and 80 V"		5:28

1993 The Paul McCartney Drove reissue [edit]

No.	Championship	Writer(s)	Length
i.	"Band on the Run"		v:12
2.	"Jet"		4:09
3.	"Bluebird"		iii:23
four.	"Mrs. Vandebilt"		4:forty
5.	"Let Me Roll It"		4:51
six.	"Mamunia"		4:51
7.	"No Words"	P. McCartney, Laine	2:35
viii.	"Picasso's Terminal Words (Drink to Me)"		5:49
9.	"19 Hundred and Eighty Five"		five:28
ten.	"Helen Wheels" (Additional track to the original United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland release.)		3:44
11.	"Land Dreamer" (Additional rail to the original U.k. release.)		three:07

1999 25th Anniversary Edition reissue [edit]

Tracks 1–10 per the original United states of america release.

Disc 2 bonus material

No.	Title	Length
ane.	"Paul McCartney (Dialogue Intro)/Band on the Run (Nicely Toasted Mix)"	1:12
2.	"Band on the Run (Original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 1)"	2:17
3.	"Band on the Run (Barn Rehearsal – 21 July 1989)"	4:59
four.	"Paul McCartney (Dialogue link two)/Mamunia (Original)/Denny Laine (Dialogue)/Mamunia (Original)/Linda McCartney (Dialogue)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 3)"	4:23
5.	"Bluebird (Live version – Australia 1975)"	0:55
vi.	"Bluebird (Original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 4)"	0:23
seven.	"Paul McCartney (Dialogue link five)/No Words (Original)/Geoff Emerick (Dialogue)"	1:24
8.	"No Words (Original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link half-dozen)/Tony Visconti (Dialogue)/Band on the Run (original)/Tony Visconti (Dialogue)"	one:47
9.	"Jet (Original from Picasso'due south Concluding Words)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 7)/Jet (Original from Picasso's Last Words)/Al Coury (Dialogue)"	2:55
10.	"Jet (Berlin Soundcheck – 3 September 1993)"	iii:52
11.	"Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 8)/Clive Arrowsmith (Dialogue)"	ane:44
12.	"Nineteen Hundred And Eighty V (Original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link ix)/James Coburn (Dialogue)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link x)/John Conteh (Dialogue)"	three:24
13.	"Mrs. Vandebilt (original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 11)/Kenny Lynch (Dialogue)"	2:10
14.	"Let Me Roll It (Cardington Rehearsal – v February 1993)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 12)"	3:52
15.	"Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 13)/Mrs. Vandebilt (Groundwork)/Michael Parkinson (Dialogue)/Linda McCartney (Band on the Run Photograph Shoot) (Dialogue)/Michael Parkinson (Dialogue)"	two:25
16.	"Helen Wheels (Crazed)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 14)/Christopher Lee (Dialogue)"	5:32
17.	"Band on the Run (Strum Bit)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 15)/Clement Freud (Dialogue)"	1:01
18.	"Picasso's Last Words (Original)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue link 16)/Dustin Hoffman (Dialogue)"	four:22
xix.	"Picasso's Final Words (Drink To Me) (Acoustic version)"	1:11
20.	"Band on the Run (Nicely Toasted Mix)/Paul McCartney (Dialogue Link 17)"	0:42
21.	"Band on the Run (Northern Comic Version)"	0:37

2010 Paul McCartney Annal Collection reissue [edit]

Tracks 1–9 per the original Uk release.

Supplementary discs (Special and Deluxe editions)

Disc ii: Bonus Tracks (Special, Vinyl and Deluxe editions)

1. "Helen Wheels" – three:46
2. "Land Dreamer" – iii:08
3. "Bluebird" (from I Hand Clapping) – 3:27
4. "Jet" (from One Hand Clapping) – three:56
5. "Let Me Roll Information technology" (from One Hand Clapping) – 4:23
6. "Band on the Run" (from One Hand Clapping) – 5:13
7. "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty V" (from One Manus Clapping) – 5:58
8. "Country Dreamer" (from One Manus Clapping) – ii:xiv
9. "Zoo Gang" – 2:01

Disc 3 (Deluxe Edition)

This disc contains an audio documentary of the album, originally released in 1999 equally Disc two of the 25th Anniversary Edition reissue.

DVD (Special and Deluxe editions)

1. "Ring on the Run" (music video)
2. "Mamunia" (music video)
3. Album promo
4. "Helen Wheels" (music video)
5. Wings in Lagos
6. Osterley Park
7. 1 Manus Clapping
   • Runway listing:
   1. One Hand Clapping Theme
   2. "Jet"
   3. "Soily"
   4. "C Moon"
   5. "Little Adult female Honey"
   6. "Perchance I'm Amazed"
   7. "My Love"
   8. "Bluebird"
   9. "Allow's Love" (previously unreleased)
   10. "All of You" (previously unreleased)
   11. "I'll Give Y'all a Band"
   12. "Band on the Run"
   13. "Live and Let Dice"
   14. "Nineteen Hundred and Lxxx Five"
   15. "Baby Face"

Bonus DVD (Special Edition sold only at All-time Buy) All-time Buy's version of the new "Band on the Run" reissue adds a fourth disc with a bonus DVD to the 2 CD/one DVD version parcel.

1. Band on the Run 2010 EPK
2. "Jet" – taken from Good Evening, New York Metropolis
3. "Mrs. Vandebilt" – taken from Expert Evening, New York Urban center
4. "Band on the Run" – taken from Expert Evening, New York City

Download only (Pre-gild bonus tracks on paulmccartney.com) ^[85]

1. "No Words" (Alive in Glasgow) - two:56
2. "Band on the Run" (Live in Glasgow) - 6:57

Personnel [edit]

According to Bruce Spizer:^[86]

Ring members

• Paul McCartney – lead and backing vocals; bass, acoustic and electrical guitars; pianoforte, keyboards; drums, percussion
• Linda McCartney – harmony and backing vocals; organ, keyboards; percussion
• Denny Laine – harmony and bankroll vocals; co-lead vocals ("No Words" and "Picasso's Last Words"); acoustic and electric guitars; percussion

Additional personnel

• Howie Casey – saxophone on "Jet",^[29] "Bluebird" and "Mrs. Vandebilt"
• Ginger Baker – percussion on "Picasso's Last Words"
• Remi Kabaka – percussion on "Bluebird"
• Ian Horne, Trevor Jones (two of Wings' roadies) – backing vocals on "No Words"
• three uncredited session musicians – saxophones on "Jet"^[29]
• Tony Visconti – orchestrations
• Geoff Emerick – sound engineer

Accolades [edit]

Grammy Awards

Charts [edit]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Band on the Run at Discogs (list of releases)

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