Paul McCartney & Wings

Wings的藝人檔案 小簡介 Following his second solo album, Ram, in 1971, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, formed Wings, which was intended to be a full-fledged recording and touring band. Denny Laine, a former guitarist for the Moody Blues, and drummer Denny Seiwell filled out the lineup and Wings released their first album, Wild Life, in December 1971. Wild Life was greeted with poor reviews and was a relative flop. McCartney and Wings, which now featured former Grease Band guitarist Henry McCullough, spent 1972 as a working band, releasing three singles -- the protest tune "Give Ireland Back to the Irish," the reggae-fied "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the hard-rocking "Hi Hi Hi" -- in England. Red Rose Speedway followed in the spring of 1973, and while it received weak reviews, it became his second American number one album. Later in 1973, Wings embarked on their first British tour, at the conclusion of which McCullough and Seiwell left the band. Prior to their departure, McCartney's theme to the James Bond movie Live and Let Die became a Top Ten hit in the U.S. and U.K. That summer, the remaining Wings proceeded to record a new album in Nigeria. Released late in 1973, Band on the Run was McCartney's best-reviewed album to date and his most successful, spending four weeks at the top of the U.S. charts and eventually going triple platinum. Following the success of Band on the Run, McCartney formed a new version of Wings with guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton. The new lineup was showcased on the 1974 British single "Junior's Farm" and the 1975 hit album Venus and Mars. Wings at the Speed of Sound followed in 1976, and it was the first Wings record to feature songwriting contributions by the other bandmembers. The album became a monster success on the basis of two McCartney songs, "Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'Em In." Wings supported the album with their first international tour, which broke many attendance records and was captured on the live triple album Wings Over America (1976). After the tour was completed, Wings rested a bit during 1977, as McCartney released an instrumental version of Ram under the name Thrillington and produced Laine's solo album, Holly Days. Later that year, Wings released "Mull of Kintyre," which became the biggest-selling British single of all time (at the time of its release), selling over two million copies. In 1978 Wings followed "Mull of Kintyre" with London Town, which became another platinum record. After its release, McCulloch left the band to join the re-formed Small Faces, and Wings released Back to the Egg in 1979. Though the record went platinum, it failed to produce any big hits. Early in 1980, McCartney was arrested for marijuana possession at the beginning of a Japanese tour; he was imprisoned for ten days and then released, without any charges being pressed. Wings embarked on a British tour in the spring of 1980 before McCartney recorded McCartney II, which was a one-man-band effort like his solo debut. The following year, Laine left Wings because McCartney didn't want to tour in the wake of John Lennon's assassination; in doing so, he effectively broke up Wings, which quietly disbanded as McCartney entered the studio later that year with Beatles producer George Martin to make his 1982 album Tug of War. Paul McCartney 是最成功的搖滾樂作者，歌手，樂隊Beatles的一員。他的歌曲銷量成千上萬；65年為Beatles所作的《Yesterday 》在美國電臺播放達六百萬次。1990年McCartney在Rio de Janeiro 舉行的獨唱音樂會有184,000觀眾到場。 James Paul McCartney于1942年6月18日生于英格蘭的Liverpool，受父親影響，從小對喜愛音樂，14歲開始彈吉他，57年與John Lennon相識加入樂隊Quarrymen，后與John一起成為樂隊的寫作。幾年后，樂隊成為Beatles 。 1962年Beatles與EMI簽約，發行了一系列金曲，并于64年將影響擴展到美國。 68開始，樂隊對音樂風格發展方向逐漸出現分歧。69年Phil Spector被邀請參與制作《Let It Be》，他的一些行為使McCartney很惱火。其后，McCartney開始制作獨唱專輯《McCartney》，于1970年四月發行。專輯由他和妻子Linda合作，到達榜首。 1970年4月10日，McCartney公開宣稱Beatles解體。他們后又發行了單曲《Another Day》和專輯《Ram》。 后來，McCartney組建了樂隊Wings，任貝斯手和主唱，Linda為鍵盤和伴唱，前Moody Blues成員Denny Laine為吉他手，Denny Seiwell為鼓手，71年11月發行專輯《Wild Life》。吸收吉他手Henry McCulloch后，Wings于72年開始在英國巡回演出，并發行了三只單曲，其中《Like Wild Life》在美國達到榜首。73年發行《Run》，在美國售出三百萬張，又達榜首。樂隊更換了吉他和鼓手后，于75年發行《Venus and Mars》，76年發行《At the Speed of Sound》。78年發行的《London Town》達到白金銷量，包括英國榜首曲《Mull of Kintyre》。《Egg》于79發行。 82年，McCartney發行獨唱專輯《Tug of War》，其中與Stevie Wonder合作的《Ebony and Ivory》到達榜首；第二年開始與Michael Jackson 合作了一段時間。 86年《Press to Play》發行，91年《Choba B CCCP》發行，93年《Off the Ground》發行。1991年McCartney開始嘗試創作古典樂曲，作品包括《Liverpool Oratorio》，《The Leaf》。95年Beatles的成員重聚，發行了包括單曲《Free As a Bird》和《Real Love》等的專輯，獲白金銷量。McCartney與97年發行獨唱專輯《Flaming Pie》，在英美上榜并獲同年的Grammy 提名。 同年，McCartney被Elizabeth女皇二世冊封為騎士。 歌手 更多>>