Wings Over America (3 CD + DVD)

Paul McCartney

CDN $190.99
Release Date 28 May 2013
In Stock

Product code: HRM34313
Format: CD with DVD
Label: Universal Special Imports

‘Wings over America’

First, the historic live album, which documented the band’s triumphant 1976 tour across North America, will be reissued in a range of formats. Fans and hardcore devotees alike will be especially thrilled with the stunning four-book, four-disc (3CD, 1DVD) Deluxe Edition Box Set.

The box set's superior audio and video include the two-disc Wings over America album remastered at Abbey Road, a bonus audio disc recorded live at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, a bonus DVD containing the rarely seen 75-minute television special ‘Wings over the World’ and the photo gallery montage entitled ‘Photographer’s Pass’.

Moreover, the Deluxe Edition Box Set contains four exquisitely rendered art books packaged with an incredible array of exclusive memorabilia, souvenirs, mementos, keepsakes and never-before-seen photos and art work from this historic tour. The spectacular 110-page commemorative tour book beautifully recounts the behind-the-scenes drama through dozens of live performances and backstage photos along with new interviews and liner notes from eminent music journalist David Fricke. The Wings over America leatherette-bound ‘Tour Itinerary’ contains extravagant memorabilia including printed 8X10 glossy band photos, a backstage guest pass, facsimiles of the invitation to the infamous end-of-tour party at the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills along with Wings over America concert tickets, original album art work, tour posters, set lists, lyrics, press materials and much more. ‘Look’, the box set’s warm and intimate book of Linda McCartney photography features Paul and the band in their everyday life as they made their way across the country in the spring of ’76. Lastly, the set contains ‘The Ocean View’ an extraordinary hardbound compendium of drawings and sketches by artist Humphrey Ocean that captures the band on tour in relaxed and revealing ways. A striking artistic achievement in and of itself, the audacious Wings over America Deluxe Edition Box Set is a must have for any McCartney enthusiast.

For Wings across America Paul brought with him one the most sophisticated and dazzling rock shows of the mid-Seventies (it was a time when nobody worried about extravagance or expense) and the band would eventually perform to more than 600,000 people at 31 shows in the US and Canada, ending with three mind-bending nights at The Forum in Los Angeles. It’s no exaggeration to say that the demand that greeted Paul McCartney & Wings (Linda McCartney, Joe English, Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch) in the spring of 1976 as they embarked on what would become their one and only North American tour was overwhelming. Having released four consecutive chart busting albums including ‘Red Rose Speedway’, ‘Band on the Run’, ‘Venus and Mars’ and ‘Wings at the Speed of Sound’ – not to mention 1973’s Academy Award-winning James Bond theme ‘Live and Let Die’ – Paul’s solo career was in full flight… and having not performed in the States for 10 years either solo or with The Beatles, excitement had reached fever pitch.

Now Paul gives fans the chance to be able to immerse themselves in a concert that is destined to live forever.

Tracks
Disc 1
1	Venus And Mars / Rock Show / Jet
2	Let Me Roll It
3	Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
4	Medicine Jar
5	Maybe I'm Amazed
6	Call Me Back Again
7	Lady Madonna
8	The Long And Winding Road
9	Live And Let Die
10	Picasso's Last Words
11	Richard Cory
12	Bluebird
13	I've Just Seen A Face
14	Blackbird
15	Yesterday

Tracks
Disc 2
1	You Gave Me The Answer
2	Magneto And Titanium Man
3	Go Now
4	My Love
5	Listen To What The Man Said
6	Let 'Em In
7	Time To Hide
8	Silly Love Songs
9	Beware My Love
10	Letting Go
11	Band On The Run
12	Hi Hi Hi
13	Soily

Tracks
Disc 3
1	Let Me Roll It (Wings Over San Francisco)
2	Maybe I'm Amazed (Wings Over San Francisco)
3	Lady Madonna (Wings Over San Francisco)
4	Live And Let Die (Wings Over San Francisco)
5	Picasso's Last Words (Wings Over San Francisco)
6	Bluebird (Wings Over San Francisco)
7	Blackbird (Wings Over San Francisco)
8	Yesterday (Wings Over San Francisco)