The Beatles Bible - Topic: Wings

DrBeatle on Wings

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:17:42 +0100

Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Wings never come up in any "serious" discussion of the 70s.

Those of you who've been on the Forum know my thoughts on this: rightly or wrongly, critics and Beatle fans ran for the exits when photographer-wife Linda appeared on stage or in a song. (Same as Yoko and John. George looked brilliant just leaving Patty at home.)

McCartney had to create a whole new fan base - which he did.

The thing is, unlike Yoko, Linda didn't want the spotlight (at least according to what she said in numerous interviews) and her ...

Into the Sky with Diamonds on Wings

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:28:42 +0100

Wings never come up in any "serious" discussion of the 70s.

Those of you who've been on the Forum know my thoughts on this: rightly or wrongly, critics and Beatle fans ran for the exits when photographer-wife Linda appeared on stage or in a song. (Same as Yoko and John. George looked brilliant just leaving Patty at home.)

McCartney had to create a whole new fan base - which he did.

DrBeatle on Wings

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:39:14 +0100

I've been revisiting and reappreciating Wings the last several weeks...so many great tunes! If you think back on who the best and biggest bands were of the 70s in terms of sales, chart toppers, and touring, after The Who, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones, I think Wings is absolutely in the conversation. It's pretty incredible, if you think about it, that out of the ashes of The Beatles, Paul was able to start from zero and build up a band like that, especially as they didn't play ANY Beatles songs live until later in the decade ('75/'76 on the ...

meanmistermustard on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:45:14 +0000

The original isnt that bad for that kind of era tho there are a thousand better girl group songs from then. However the Beatles took it and gave it real balls especially Johns vocal which isnt a plea but an order bordering on becoming a threat "Dont dare come my way with no letter from my girl otherwise i'll have you".

Generally speaking i find the Seventies to be a pretty dull era music-wise being that i hate disco, glam, punk and those awful teen bands like the Bay City Rollers and the Osmands. John was right when he called it a drag. There was ...

Velvet Hand on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:11:01 +0000

meanmistermustard said
their cover of Please Mister Postman took a good song and turned it into one of the most mundane, boring pieces of bah ever.

True, but it is also one of the prettiest mundane, boring pieces of bah ever.

The Carpenters' "Calling Occupants", however, is absolutely barmy.

Is this thread now derailed?

Von Bontee on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:25:44 +0000

Eh, they had their moments. Actually, Velvet Hand, I think I actually prefer their "Calling Occupants..." to Klaatu's original!

meanmistermustard on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:12:08 +0000

Sorry but i find the Carpenters to be one of the most boring listening experiences i ever have had the mispleasure of experiencing. Everything they did was reduced to beige and i maintain that their cover of Please Mister Postman took a good song and turned it into one of the most mundane, boring pieces of bah ever. They took Help! and somehow made it boring. One of the worst car journeys i have ever had was when listening to their Greatest Hits simply because it was so incredibly dull.

Velvet Hand on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:57:03 +0000

Celebrated_Mr_K said
Karen Carpenter says, "Okay, "Close to You", on three."

Dudes! That's not funny! Karen Carpenter was a stunning singer and a capable drummer, and simply isn't someone you, uhm, make light of! Her version of "Ticket to Ride" is wonderful! Have you heard "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognised Anthem of World Contact Day)"? It's druggier than "I Am the Walrus" sung by Courtney Love in a Munich disco in the late '70s! And it's originally by Klaatu who were once thought to be - döng - The Beatles!

Sorry for shouting.

I like Wild Life. It has "Tomorrow", ...

unknown on Wings

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:31:49 +0000

That guy must not be a Paul McCartney fan. I don't think that's too bad, it sounds like something I would say (but not about Paul). I think it was meant to be a joke, but the kind that he really thinks is true. It also said that guy's a sports person, so who cares what he has to say about Paul anyways?

thewordislove94 on Wings

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:53:08 +0000

Paul's best work was done when he was in a band, or singing with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. The music that the Wings generated was great, but George's quote from 1974 is correct. Members of the Wings complained that he was controlling. He may have been controlling during the Let it Be sessions, but with the Wings he was being a perfectionist.

meanmistermustard on Wings

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:02:12 +0000

Propbably should be in another Macca thread but some journalist, Mike Lupica has been complaining that Paul played Wings songs instead of all beatles one reports the Beatles Examiner.

"Didn’t somebody tell Sir Paul McCartney, by the way, that nobody hung around until 1:30 in the morning to hear him take a trip down memory lane with Wings songs, they wanted to hear him sing, 'I Saw Her Standing There, Lupica wrote in the New York Daily News.

Shows a) the man knows nothing about Pauls fans and b) a great underappreciation for Paul and his work with Wings considering Paul sang Nineteen ...

meanmistermustard on Wings

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:33:05 +0000

Wasnt Klein ripping off everyone so maybe he was feeling charitable? One of those 'ive taken 10,000 off you so i'll let you have 1'.

Von Bontee on Wings

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:00:24 +0000

Hm, that makes sense - George insinuating that Paul's music hadn't evolved. Or possibly that Paul had so dominated the Beatles that anything he recorded was bound to sound familiar.

Supposedly it was Allan Klein who came up with the "You're just another day" line, which I think was pretty clever of him. (Surprised he didn't try to get co-writing credit on it!) And I suspect John simply found it easier to dismiss the song as partly being about himself than to try to excuse its excesses and admit it was written mostly in anger.

meanmistermustard on Wings

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:38:54 +0000

I think George meant what was said previously - that Paul hadnt evolved in his music away from the beatles, the sound was the same.

The song Funny Paper was referring to was How Do You Sleep?, and John's rebuke never worked for me as i love Another Day. Ive also never understood John saying that HDYS? was about himself by the way.

Von Bontee on Wings

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:15:47 +0000

That Harrison "If they want to hear the Beatles..." quote was a remark he made during his 1974 tour. A very perplexing remark, since Paul/Wings were'nt playing any Beatles tunes at all at the time! (Whereas George was playing "Something" and apparently "In My Life".)