Paul McCartney / Wings Back to the Egg First U.S Pressing Vinyl Rip Flac With Bonus
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Back to the Egg
Studio album by Wings
Released 8 June 1979 (UK)
11 June 1979 (US)
Recorded 29 June 1978 -
1 April 1979 at McCartney's farm in Scotland; Lympne Castle; Replica and EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock
Length 42:01
Columbia (US/Canada)
Producer Paul McCartney
Chris Thomas
Professional reviews
* Allmusic 2/5 stars link
* Robert Christgau (C) link
* Rolling Stone (unfavorable) link
Back to the Egg is the ninth & final studio album by Wings and was released in 1979. It is also Wings' first album for Columbia Records after leaving long-time US distributor Capitol Records in 1978. When McCartney returned to international distribution by EMI in 1985, Back to the Egg and the rest of McCartney's Columbia-era releases moved to Capitol/EMI in the US.
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History
After the release of London Town, following the exit of both guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Joe English, McCartney hired two new members with a view to recording a raw rock and roll album after the soft rock of London Town and getting Wings back on the road. Laurence Juber became the band's final lead guitarist and Steve Holley Wings' last drummer. McCartney also decided to join forces in the studio with Chris Thomas (who had trained as a producer during the recording of The Beatles' 1968 double album The Beatles) for Back to the Egg.
By the end of June 1978, this last incarnation of Wings settled into Spirit of Ranachan Studios on McCartney's farm in Scotland, then moved onto Lympne Castle near Hythe in Kent (not far from McCartney's new home in Peasmarsh, near Rye, Sussex) in September and Abbey Road Studios in October, where McCartney organised a special one-off session. On 3 October, Wings recorded two tracks, "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad To See You Here" with many celebrity guests under the heading of Rockestra. Hank Marvin of The Shadows, The Who's Pete Townshend, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, John Bonham and The Attractions's Bruce Thomas all took part.
Eager to release new material, Wings issued a non-album dance single "Goodnight Tonight" b/w "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" in late March 1979. It became a worldwide Top 5 hit and set the stage for Back to the Egg's release that June (the song would later appear as a bonus track on the CD reissue of McCartney II). With the title a McCartney-ism for getting back to basics, the band considered Back to the Egg the beginning of a new era in their career. It was certainly not intended as their swan song.[citation needed]
Back to the Egg reached #6 in the UK and #8 in the US. Its first single: "Old Siam, Sir", was released only in the UK where it hit #35; the second single: "Getting Closer", reached #20 in the US and #60 in the UK; and the final single: "Arrow Through Me," was a US-only release and hit #29.
In 1993, Back to the Egg was remastered and reissued on CD as part of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series with "Daytime Nighttime Suffering" ("Goodnight Tonight"'s B-Side) and Paul McCartney's solo 1979 Christmas single "Wonderful Christmastime" b/w "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reggae" as bonus tracks.[1]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Paul McCartney, except "Again and Again and Again" by Denny Laine.
Side One: "Sunny Side Up"
1. "Reception" 1:08
2. "Getting Closer" 3:22
3. "We're Open Tonight" 1:28
4. "Spin It On" 2:12
5. "Again and Again and Again" 3:34
6. "Old Siam, Sir" 4:11
7. "Arrow Through Me" 3:37
Side Two: "Over Easy"
8. "Rockestra Theme" 2:35
9. "To You" 3:12
10. "After The Ball / Million Miles" 4:00
11. "Winter Rose / Love Awake" 4:58
12. "The Broadcast" 1:30
13. "So Glad to See You Here" 3:20
14. "Baby's Request" 2:49
Music videos
Most of the songs for the album had a music video shot for them (an uncommon thing for an artist to do in the pre-MTV era).
These included:
* "Getting Closer"
* "Spin It On"
* "Again And Again And Again"
* "Old Siam Sir"
* "Arrow Through Me"
* "Winter Rose/Love Awake"
* "Baby's Request"
These videos plus the promo for "Goodnight Tonight" were compiled for a television special, which aired on U.S. television in 1979—and in June, 1981 on BBC1 - two years after the album was released.
Also shot around the time of recording the album, the sessions for "Rockestra Theme" and "So Glad To See You Here" were filmed using several Panavision cameras. However this footage didn't see the light of day until the DVD release of Wingspan. In 2007 more outtakes were used for the menu screen on The McCartney Years DVD.
Personnel
* Paul McCartney: Bass guitar, guitars, piano, keyboards, recorder, synthesizer, vocals.
* Linda McCartney: Keyboards, percussion, mini-moog, vocals.
* Denny Laine: Guitars, bass guitar (in Old Siam, Sir)[citation needed], piano, keyboards, flute, vocals.
* Laurence Juber: Guitars, vocals.
* Steve Holley: Drums, percussion, piano (in Old Siam, Sir)[citation needed], vocals.
Rockestra line-up (tracks 8 & 13)
* Guitars: Denny Laine, Laurence Juber, David Gilmour, Hank Marvin, Pete Townshend
* Drums: Steve Holly, John Bonham, Kenney Jones
* Basses: Paul McCartney, John Paul Jones, Ronnie Lane, Bruce Thomas
* Pianos: Paul McCartney, Gary Brooker, John Paul Jones
* Keyboards: Linda McCartney, Tony Ashton
* Percussion: Speedy Acquaye, Tony Carr, Ray Cooper, Morris Pert
* Horns: Howie Casey, Tony Dorsey, Steve Howard, Thaddeus Richard
Chart positions
Chart (1979) Position Weeks
Australian Kent Music Report[2] 3
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart (top 20)[3] 5 11
Swedish Albums Chart(top 50)[4] 5 7
UK Albums Chart (top 60)[5] 6 15
Japanese Oricon Weekly LP Chart (top 100)[6][7] 7 19
U.S. Billboard 200 [8][9] 8 24
New Zealand Albums Chart (top 40)[10] 9 16
Austrian Albums Chart(top 25)[11] 12 8
Also Included
"Goodnight Tonight" – 4:21
"Daytime Nighttime Suffering" 3:23
"Wonderful Christmastime" (1979 Paul McCartney solo single and solo performance) 3:49
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae" (1979 Paul McCartney solo single and solo performance) 1:48
Also Included Side 4 Of Concerts For The People Of Kampuchea
"Got to Get You into My Life" (Lennon / McCartney) - 2:57
"Every Night" (McCartney) - 4:17
"Coming Up" (McCartney) - 4:08
"Lucille" (Collins / Penniman) - 3:03
"Let It Be" (Lennon / McCartney) - 4:12
"Rockestra Theme" (McCartney) - 2:30 (*)
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