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Band on the Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was written in response to musicians being arrested for pot possession.
After the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney recorded a few solo albums, and then started a new band, Wings. The third album by Paul McCartney & Wings was 1973’s Band on the Run. The title track for the album started with images of someone in prison (“Stuck inside these four walls”), and then moved on to people looking for him and his companions (the titular “band on the run”), indicating that he had escaped.
The inspiration for the song was the prevalence of musicians on tour in the late 60s and early 70s being arrested for marijuana. McCartney had had his own legal problems due to pot, with two convictions for possessions in Sweden and Scotland leading to the United States refusing to grant him a visa to enter the country at the time. McCartney explains, “”We were being outlawed for pot … And our argument was ‘Don’t put us on the wrong side … We’re not criminals, we don’t want to be.’ So I just made up a story about people breaking out of prison.” Coincidentally, in December 1973 as the Band on the Run album was released, the US reversed its earlier restrictions on McCartney and granted him a visa.
Band on the Run was the third single from the album and was released in April 1974. The first two singles were Top 10 hits, but Band on the Run did even better, placing at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single sold well over a million copies in the United States, and helped the album reach triple Platinum certification.
View: https://youtu.be/RjlvdcBAKdg
Tomorrow: Here is that rainbow I’ve been praying for
Band on the Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song was written in response to musicians being arrested for pot possession.
After the Beatles broke up, Paul McCartney recorded a few solo albums, and then started a new band, Wings. The third album by Paul McCartney & Wings was 1973’s Band on the Run. The title track for the album started with images of someone in prison (“Stuck inside these four walls”), and then moved on to people looking for him and his companions (the titular “band on the run”), indicating that he had escaped.
The inspiration for the song was the prevalence of musicians on tour in the late 60s and early 70s being arrested for marijuana. McCartney had had his own legal problems due to pot, with two convictions for possessions in Sweden and Scotland leading to the United States refusing to grant him a visa to enter the country at the time. McCartney explains, “”We were being outlawed for pot … And our argument was ‘Don’t put us on the wrong side … We’re not criminals, we don’t want to be.’ So I just made up a story about people breaking out of prison.” Coincidentally, in December 1973 as the Band on the Run album was released, the US reversed its earlier restrictions on McCartney and granted him a visa.
Band on the Run was the third single from the album and was released in April 1974. The first two singles were Top 10 hits, but Band on the Run did even better, placing at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single sold well over a million copies in the United States, and helped the album reach triple Platinum certification.
View: https://youtu.be/RjlvdcBAKdg
Tomorrow: Here is that rainbow I’ve been praying for
I've been listening to this dude with my son since yesterday, very talented dude.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2h7eUp7h_o
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2h7eUp7h_o
I feel like this is a rediscovery for me, but I'm not sure. He's awesome.