WILDLIFE
released December 1971, seven months after RAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography
TITLE TRACK
To this writer, Wings needed to go in the Wildlife direction, far removed from "Silly Love Songs," "My Love," "Ebony and Ivory," ...latter songs from Paul which seem too contrived, too much of a thought process. Without Lennon and George Martin, Ringo and George Harrison the "Beatle" imprint so essential was M.I.A.
However here on the 50th anniversary of Wild Life you can hear the wild abandon that we all love. It's almost like McCartney jamming with the pop side of Lou Reed, the Jefferson Airplane of Bark.
While John Lennon was issuing Two Virgins and such, you could grab a melody from Wildlife and hold onto it. Especially the title track. Listen to the fun guitar playing into the chorus of "whatever happened to...whatever happened to (the animals in the zoo...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBmogGl5xc
If anything live tracks from Wild Life need to be included in any 50th Anniversary box, check out this amazing Live at the Hague, 1972 rendition https://youtu.be/1GliIFXKUc0 Full version here: https://youtu.be/Em_onwwAK_o
DEAR FRIEND
Elements of the Beatles, missing in many a Wings release, are here. It was, after all, the albums that came immediately after the Beatles break-up that were the most like the Beatles...George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Plastic Ono Band from Lennon, even Ringo's first album contained more hits than probably anything in the drummer's catalog that followed.
The eerie piano, Paul's simple vocal...real drama.
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