For the title song from the album, see Band on the Run (song).
Band on the Run
Studio album by
Paul McCartney and Wings
Released
30 November 1973
Recorded
August–October 1973
Studio
EMI and ARC, Lagos, Nigeria
AIR and Kingsway Recorders, London[1]
Genre
Rock
Length
41:08 (UK version)
44:17 (US version)
Label
Apple
Producer
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings chronology
Red Rose Speedway (1973)
Band on the Run (1973)
Venus and Mars (1975)
Singles from Band on the Run
"Mrs. Vandebilt" Released: January 1974
"Jet" Released: 28 January 1974
"Band on the Run" Released: 8 April 1974
Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released by Apple on 30 November 1973. It was McCartney's fifth album after leaving the Beatles in April 1970. Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was aided by two hit singles – "Jet" and "Band on the Run" – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to revitalising McCartney's critical standing. It remains McCartney's most successful album and the most celebrated of his post-Beatles works.
The album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic location. Shortly before departing for Lagos, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group. With no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts.[2] The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of song lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, it was listed at 418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[3] A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone describes the album as being the "finest record yet" by a former Beatle "with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band".[4] It was McCartney's last album released on Apple Records. In 2013, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]
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