Recording: Venus And Mars, Rock Show by Wings

Studio 3, Wally Heider Recording, Los Angeles
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: Alan O’Duffy

The recording of Wings’ album Venus And Mars moved from New Orleans to Wally Heider Recording in Los Angeles on 26 February 1975.

Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocals for the song ‘Venus And Mars’. He then added a harmony vocal part, beginning from the line “red lights, green lights, strawberry wine”.

I was really throwing all of these ideas of the planets and ‘the stars’ and the live show – all of these period words – into this one song, which I don’t perform a lot, because of the embarrassment factor. But I’ve also met people who love this song, so I’ve kind of learnt to shut up about it.

With that complete, he taped the lead vocals for ‘Rock Show’. In the evening all of Wings added backing vocals to the song.