Recording, mixing: Single Pigeon by Wings

Studio Two, EMI Studios, London
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: Richard Lush

Wings completed ‘Single Pigeon’ on 29 January 1973, the final recording session for Red Rose Speedway.

The song was mostly recorded at Olympic Sound Studios on 9 March 1972. It was revived and finished on this day.

It was an unusual session, involving the members of Wings playing unconventional instruments: Paul McCartney played a trombone, Denny Laine was on saxophone, and Denny Seiwell played a cornet.

I went to Portobello Road, where they have a big flea market, and I bought this beautiful old Besson cornet. It came in a beat-up old leather bag, and it was really screwed up. And I said, ‘How much do you want for that?’ And I gave him a couple of pounds and went home, and had it worked on a little bit, so that it played OK. I brought it to the session one day, and it’s on ‘Single Pigeon’.

‘Single Pigeon’ was mixed in stereo in six attempts towards the end of the session.