Paul McCartney & Wings

Wings的艺人档案
小简介
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 是最成功的摇滚乐作者，歌手，乐队Beatles的一员。他的歌曲销量成千上万；65年为Beatles所作的《Yesterday 》在美国电台播放达六百万次。1990年McCartney在Rio de Janeiro 举行的独唱音乐会有184,000观众到场。 James Paul McCartney于1942年6月18日生于英格兰的Liverpool，受父亲影响，从小对喜爱音乐，14岁开始弹吉他，57年与John Lennon相识加入乐队Quarrymen，后与John一起成为乐队的写作。几年后，乐队成为Beatles 。
1962年Beatles与EMI签约，发行了一系列金曲，并于64年将影响扩展到美国。 68开始，乐队对音乐风格发展方向逐渐出现分歧。69年Phil Spector被邀请参与制作《Let It Be》，他的一些行为使McCartney很恼火。其后，McCartney开始制作独唱专辑《McCartney》，于1970年四月发行。专辑由他和妻子Linda合作，到达榜首。
1970年4月10日，McCartney公开宣称Beatles解体。他们后又发行了单曲《Another Day》和专辑《Ram》。
后来，McCartney组建了乐队Wings，任贝斯手和主唱，Linda为键盘和伴唱，前Moody Blues成员Denny Laine为吉他手，Denny Seiwell为鼓手，71年11月发行专辑《Wild Life》。吸收吉他手Henry McCulloch后，Wings于72年开始在英国巡回演出，并发行了三只单曲，其中《Like Wild Life》在美国达到榜首。73年发行《Run》，在美国售出三百万张，又达榜首。乐队更换了吉他和鼓手后，于75年发行《Venus and Mars》，76年发行《At the Speed of Sound》。78年发行的《London Town》达到白金销量，包括英国榜首曲《Mull of Kintyre》。《Egg》于79发行。
82年，McCartney发行独唱专辑《Tug of War》，其中与Stevie Wonder合作的《Ebony and Ivory》到达榜首；第二年开始与Michael Jackson 合作了一段时间。
86年《Press to Play》发行，91年《Choba B CCCP》发行，93年《Off the Ground》发行。1991年McCartney开始尝试创作古典乐曲，作品包括《Liverpool Oratorio》，《The Leaf》。95年Beatles的成员重聚，发行了包括单曲《Free As a Bird》和《Real Love》等的专辑，获白金销量。McCartney与97年发行独唱专辑《Flaming Pie》，在英美上榜并获同年的Grammy 提名。 同年，McCartney被Elizabeth女皇二世册封为骑士。 歌手