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. As it is here the documentary definitely needs some editing and work for a final product, but this is probably the best we’ll see of this until the master does indeed surface.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.

The interviews are also cool to listen to, hearing Paul speaking about aging and other topics. It’s also great to have another studio version of “Soily” and the very rare song “Suicide”, one of McCartney’s first songs, and a rare version of “1985″. He is wearing his karate uniform and even shows his moves during the drum improv. It is interesting to note this is the only existing footage of Geoff Britton playing with the band, since he never did tour with them. The performances are good for a rehearsal. The sound quality is very good, as good as the Watchtower release from 2001. The picture is fuzzy and wavy at points and really shows its age. Despite the claim on the front cover, the master was NOT used but a copy several generations away. This new release on Misterclaudel is their first foray into DVD (along with the simultaneously released “James Paul McCartney”) and is interesting without being enlightening. The only problem is the tour never did happen when Britton was unceremoniously dumped from the band, and “One Hand Clapping” remained in the vaults, never to air. To counter all of this they produced this television documentary showing them rehearsing in Abbey Road Studio for their first true world wide tour and interviewing Paul and showing everybody generally in a positive light. The British press was running many stories about the clashes and imminent breakup of Wings along with the usual rumors about the reunion of the Fab Four. They had a strange mix of personalities to go along with the usual pressure of playing in the same band as an ex-Beatle. Having released their biggest hit with Band On The Run, McCartney was breaking in a whole new band with guitarist Jimmy McCullouch and drummer Geoff Britton. When Paul, Linda and the rest of the band returned to the UK after their seven week working vacation in Nashville, Tennessee, there were many pressures on the band at this time. “One Hand Clapping” is a strange document. One Hand Clapping, Jet, Soily, C Moon/Little Woman Love, Billy Don’t Be A Hero, Maybe I’m Amazed, drum improv., My Love, Bluebird, Suicide, Let’s Love/Sitting At The Piano, I’ll Give You A Ring, Band On The Run, Live & Let Die, 1985, Baby Face

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