When a profits of Red Rose Speedway, "Live And Let Die" - a fresh James Bond theme song, wwhen released as a next Wings lone (while forgoing McCartney's title in the creative person credit) & became the worldwide smash. It was at this juncture that Paul & married woman Linda McCartney began contemplating their next album. Bored using recording in the UK, it really wanted to challenge themselves & Wings by attend occasionally exotic venue. Request EMI to send him a list of a lot their international recording studios, Paul strike Lagos in Nigeria and was instantly taken with a idea of recording inside Africa. Alongside a McCartneys, guitar player Denny Laine wwhen set to last, besides as lead guitar player Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell. Unluckily, a nighttime prior to departing inside late August, each McCullough & Seiwell quit Wings, allowing a unexpended core of the b&, Paul, Linda and Denny, to venture to Lagos alone.

When there, two McCartneys were mugged at knifepoint, were accosted in the studio by legendary musician Fela Kuti for fear that Paul was plagarizing African music (fears which McCartney quickly dissuaded by playing Kuti a recorded music), & were insisted upon recording at Ginger Baker's studio inside Lagos (in which he presently lived) per human himself, another time he heard McCartney was in town. It was a virtually all action-packed period, clearly, & of these which just saw the recording of the following album's backing tracks.

Within October, after a band's go to to London, final overdubs & orchestral tracks were overdubbed and a album was finished. "Helen Wheels" was freed as the non-album lone at a prevent of the season, becoming a worldwide Top 10 per prevent of the year. When Band On The Begin was existence steel onself for release, Capitol Records, who distributed The Beatles' Apple Records label there, slotted "Helen Wheels" into the album - although it was never McCartney's intention to launder sol. A 1993 international CD reissue of a album - while forgoing a lone interrupting the album's line-higher - confirms this.

Band On The Rerun was issued that December to positively glowing reviews, with potentially a halt McCartney knocker calling it prima. A songs were intantaneous, recently & vital & were instrumental around making McCartney officially a virtually all successful ex-Beatle. A commercial reaction was slow, using a album step by step inching its way higher a stock and index charts, however per spring of 1974, bolstered by the hits "Jet" & its title track, Band On The Rerun was the monumental profits. It reached #1 in the U.s.the. in ternion separate occasions - a foremost, & at length went triple pt. In a UK, it spent 7 weeks at a summit that summertime, becoming the top selling British album of 1974. Its lingering profits was as well beneficial within leaving Wings a instance to interview a fresh guitar player & drummer & integrate the babies into the band prior to beginning fresh recordings.

A handle of Band On The Start is too noteworthy. Shot in 28 October 1973, it depicts the today easily-known shot of Paul, Lindthe, & Denny + sextuplet more celebrities dressed when convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight. It is: Michael Parkinson, journalist and UK chat-indicate carrier, Kenny Lynch, singer, actor and comedian, James Coburn, Hollywood actor, Clement Freud, gourmet, anecdotist & late UK politician, Christopher Lee, UK actor, best known for roles around horror films, & John Conteh, Liverpool boxer who late became Globe Weak-Heavyweight champion. A pic' was taken against the garden wall up Osterley Park, Brentford.

Around early 1975, Band On The Run won a "Best Pop Vocal Performance By a Duo, Group or Chorus" Grammy.

Within 1993, Band On The Start wwhen remastered & reissued in Video as section of "The Paul McCartney Collection" series using "Helen Wheels" & its B-Side "Country Dreamer" when bonus tracks.

Band on the Do was besides re-freed within 1999 as a special 25th aniversary edition with a bonus disc of locate poop & replacement performances of numbers of of its songs.

Around 2002, Band On The Run was located at #418 in the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Track listing
Tons tracks written by Paul and Linda McCartney, except where noted.