Wings finally recruited drummer Geoff Britton and headed to Nashville in July to rehearse for a planned tour of Australia. A month before Band On The Run’s December 1973 release, Wings broke in their new guitarist Jimmy McCulloch by recording some of Linda’s songs as Suzy and The Red Stripes, as well as a session for Paul’s brother Michael, as McGear, in February 1974. This eventually led to the second major change for Wings: a new line-up. Miraculously, the album was a product of the trio of Paul, Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, as drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough quit the band just before the start of the album’s recording sessions. Firstly, it was McCartney’s first post-Beatles “masterpiece album”, finally equaling the quality of a typical Beatles album. The arrival of Band on The Run signaled a few changes in Paul McCartney & Wings. All tracks have been sequenced in the actual recording order, spread across four sides of a vinyl record.
This reconstruction attempts to replicate what a double-LP release in 1974 could have been like, using the best possible sources, including official releases and painstakingly-remastered bootleg recordings. Despite the high quality of live studio performances-especially of the then-unreleased “Soily”-McCartney shelved the entire project, as was the fate of a number of other self-financed Wings film projects throughout the 70s and 80s. Originally meant as the studio rehearsals for a 1974 Wings Over Australia tour that never happened, the proceedings were filmed for a possible film release, akin to The Beatles’ Get Back project eight years earlier. This is a reconstruction of the proposed 1974 live in-the-Abbey Road studio album One Hand Clapping by Paul McCartney & Wings. My how time flies! Why is the pandemic not over yet!? Sorry for the delay, but it’s finally here- the second of a trilogy of famous live albums that never were, in memory of the live music we can’t quite yet experience again.
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