Recording: Name And Address by Wings

Studio Two, Abbey Road Studios, London
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: Geoff Emerick

Wings finished recording the London Town song ‘Name And Address’ on 27 October 1977.

The final overdubs were a double-tracked guitar solo played by Paul McCartney, and backing vocals by Paul, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine.

A visitor to the studio on this day was Hank Marvin, guitarist from The Shadows, although he did not play on the song.

I wrote this song before Elvis died, about a good few months before he died. So it wasn’t anything to do with the fact that Elvis had died. But I’ve always loved Elvis, he’s always been a big influence on me, mainly the early stuff he did. So this is like a throwback to the old days of straight, three-chord rock ‘n’ roll, straight tape echo on the voice, and kind of very Elvis-y sounding. I played some guitar on it, a couple of guitar solos, and I played the lead guitar on it. In fact while we were recording the takes of this one, Mr Hank Marvin of The Shadows came in for a word, and he was flashing around the control room as we were doing it. So that’s kind of a straightforward rocker, you know, just trying to get the kind of bashing feel of the old records.