A damaged car is stopped in the middle of a dirt road, stopping behind another, and five men coming down from the second car, there is a dialogue with the first, they argue, is a struggle and suddenly, one of those who were in the first car is with a knife that is dangerously close to his neck.
man threatened the woman's screams, please ask, do not know what to say to the thugs to loosen her husband and let him, words and soul will choke him out the magic phrase: "Let him go, is the Beatle Paul ...!".
A studio half-finished, in a place where it rains all the time, there are bad vibes and a military government.
is a country of Africa, Nigeria and this happens in the capital, Lagos.
Two gang members who decide to get off of it a few days before traveling with the rest of the group and only three: husband, wife and another.
have to record an album with the band decimated, what else could happen?
What's worse? yes, the day of the knife incident, the spoils of the robbery were some cassettes, worth more than gold, were the demos of the new album by Wings.
And everything is back to square one, memorize songs. What work, then not so much, the songs were written recently. It's the summer of 1973 and Paul McCartney and Wings have reduced over the worst.
Paul, Linda and Denny Laine are now the only members of the band, and preparing to record in that study that EMI is building in Lagos, Nigeria's capital.
"I thought we were going to spend a summer day in paradise, beach and sun during the day, recording at night. Idyllic. Do not expect that going to a country ruled by a military junta and the study was half done ... " Under these conditions
What could I do?
could be and it was: to create and develop the best solo album of a musician who joined a band called The Beatles.
In this dismal environment was recorded "Band On The Run" by Wings, Paul McCartney's group formed in 1971 to go back on tour in remote places, regardless of the huge industrial and shake your head the Fab Four.
few days ago has gone on sale a new edition of this classic pop music, with bonus tracks on a second version disquito we had not heard before filming the making of the album, in a third which is a DVD.
There are also a collector's edition, that it produces chills when you see it in the trays, a book of unpublished photographs, access to download the album in digital and high definition: How and CDs are not high ...?
has also been released on vinyl 180 gr. What
have that album in 2010? That is still a wonder, that the issues are of utmost quality and freshness that has lost 37 years of its original release.
is the album that sets the tone of the reason for the continued success of Paul McCartney, is that here the bass player for the pretty face again a Beatle, shakes his mane and reconciled with the bass Paul Hoffner making it sound as in the times of the album Abbey Road by The Beatles, singing Beatles songs that refer to, dismembered with a band that sounds like more.
saw Paul a few days ago playing some songs of this album on Jools Holland's show and gave me goosebumps, as when in 1974 I walked into a record store in my hometown and asked "Dame Banda on the run, the last Wings ... "
Listen to this note in the "Universe Beat"
http://www.goear.com/listen/f6c3b10/programa-74-13nov-universo-beat-am-colonia
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