"This is a fired-up performance - a man determined to prove everyone wrong": Paul McCartney rails against the critics, John Lennon, Fela Kuti and muggers on Wings' classic Band On The Run

Wings: Band On The Run cover art.

Wings - Band On The Run

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Band on the Run
Jet
Bluebird
Mrs. Vandebilt
Let Me Roll It
Mamunia
No Words
Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five

Paul McCartney’s greatest post-Beatles work was a triumph over adversity. Just before Wings travelled to Nigeria to record it, guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the group. And while, in Nigeria, Paul and wife Linda survived both being mugged at knifepoint and accusations of colonial activity by the great Fela Kuti.