Additionally includes the 18 track special edition album in high resolution audio. Deluxe Edition audio is available as DRM-free 320Kbps MP3s, FLAC or Apple Lossless. Digital download of all 18 tracks, audio documentary, and all bonus video material.4 disc (3CD, 1 DVD) in deluxe packaging.Includes a special Band on the Run audio documentary (originally produced for the 25th Anniversary edition.).Park, as well as the One Hand Clapping television special highlighted by studio performances at Abbey Road in 1974 But on the run-up to and during recording McCartney and his band were well and truly ‘on the run’. The album went on to become one of McCartney’s best sellers spending 124 weeks on the UK chart. DVD disc includes music videos, rare footage of the McCartneys in Lagos, behind-the-scenes at the album cover shoot in London's Osterley On 8th June in 1974, Wings started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Band On The Run.120-page book containing many previously unpublished images by Linda McCartney and Clive Arrowsmith, album and single artwork, and a full history of the album, complete with a new interview with Paul and expanded track by track information for all four discs.Remastered documentary disc featuring interviews and alternative versions of the album tracks.9 bonus audio tracks, including the hit single 'Helen Wheels'.The original 9-track #1 album, remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London.The slow climb up the charts and continued high placing allowed McCartney to reconsider the direction of Wings and to recruit a new guitarist and drummer prior to more recordings and world tours. It spent seven weeks at the top, was on the charts for a total of 124 weeks, and became the UK’s biggest-selling album of 1974.īy the end of 1974 Band On The Run had sold more than six million copies worldwide, making it Wings’ most-successful album. In the UK its success was again slow, and it took eight months before it topped the album chart on 27 July 1974. As his car eased into the grounds of one of London’s finest houses, Paul McCartney is unlikely to have realised that he was just five weeks away from releasing his most successful work since the Beatles and probably his best-loved: the Wings album Band On The Run. In early 1975 Wings were also given the Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus. In all, Band On The Run had three spells at the top of the US album chart, and was eventually certified triple platinum. It was released in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1973.īand On The Run was initially a slow burner, but reached number one in the US in early 1974 following the single release of ‘Jet’.Īlthough sales declined after the single peaked, the album returned to number one several months later after the title track was released. Wings’ third album, Band On The Run, was released in the United States on 3 December 1973.īand On The Run was the follow-up to Red Rose Speedway.
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