Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Listen To What The Man Said
2. Band On The Run
3. Another Day
4. Live And Let Die
5. Jet
6. My Love
7. Silly Love Songs
8. Pipes Of Peace
9. C Moon
10. Hi Hi Hi
11. Let �Em In
12. Goodnight Tonight
13. Junior�s Farm (DJ Edit)
14. Mull Of Kintyre
15. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
16. With A Little Luck
17. Coming Up
18. No More Lonely Nights

Disc 2:

1. Let Me Roll It
2. The Lovely Linda
3. Daytime Nightime Suffering
4. Maybe I�m Amazed
5. Helen Wheels
6. Bluebird
7. Heart Of The Country
8. Every Night
9. Take It Away
10. Junk
11. Man We Was Lonely
12. Venus And Mars / Rockshow (Single Edit)
13. Back Seat Of My Car
14. Rockestra Theme
15. Girlfriend
16. Waterfalls (DJ Edit)
17. Tomorrow
18. Too Many People
19. Call Me Back Again
20. Tug Of War
21. Bip Bop / Hey Diddle
22. No More Lonely Nights (Playout Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3365 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-07
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
Wingspan could be the collection that finally gives Wings the respect that they've long been due. Some people are wary of Wings simply because knocking them is the done thing. Others are dubious because they've actually tried listening to London Town or Red Rose Speedway all the way through. It's a truism that without a vociferous writing partner, Paul McCartney's sense of quality control could be rather lax, but it's easy to overlook how many fine tracks he and Wings produced from 1970 to 1983, the period covered on Wingspan. Compiling 40 of them on a two-CD set is a smart move--it allows you to purchase pretty much every post-Beatles McCartney song you could ever possibly want, all at once. The hits crowd together on the first disc, while the second cherry-picks album tracks and oddities; forget the inevitable "Mull of Kintyre", let "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Waterfalls" and "Back Seat of My Car" remind you of just what Paul McCartney could always do when he tried. --Taylor Parkes

CD Description
The 40 tracks included here, cover the period from McCartney's 1970 eponymous debut solo album, to 1984's 'No More Lonely Nights'. Whilst the first disc includes the hit singles, the second one is a compilation of Wings and solo album tracks from this period.

Customer Reviews

Massively under-rated
As I'm a teenager whose (almost) 50-year-old Dad owns almost all the Beatles LPs, it's very hard to think of Paul McCarteny as someone who 'rocks.' But I love the man - he's quite clearly a songwriting genius, without doubt the best singer-songwriter ever, and he proves with this album that Wings have produced songs of Beatles standard. Although they often take some getting used to, almost every track is a gem, with songs like 'Venus and Mars/Rockstar,' 'Helen Wheels' and 'Daytime Nighttime Suffering' being included on the 'History' CD (ie not Hits... how?). Personally, Paul is my favourite Beatle, so it was no surprise to discover that Wingspan, although more 'pop-like,' can match up to many of the Beatles' songs. I could list all the great songs, but it's far easier to name the bad ones - Lovely Linda and Tug Of War. Because I don't mind Mull of Kintyre.

"The Band the Beatles could of been"
It seems fashionable nowadays to knock McCartney for his post-Beatle efforts but with the arrival of 'Wingspan' things could be about to change.

For the first time on cd, the greatest hits and best of Paul McCartney and Wings is collected together. Such classics as 'Another Day', With A Little Luck', 'Live and Let Die' and the brilliant 'Maybe I'm Amazed' are all to be found on here. It goes without saying that 'Maybe I'm Amazed' is the greatest Beatle song they never did and, in my opinion, far superior to Lennon's Imagine.

Interestingly, McCartney has chosen to include some of his own personal favourites under the heading 'History'. It's on this cd that the less obvious, but just as good, songs are found. 'Back Seat of My Car' is an amazing song, as is Nineteen Eighty Five, a song which has found a new generation of fans when used on Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV.

I could recommed this album to fans of The Beatles because, although I don't agree with Alan Partridge when he says "Wings are the band The Beatles could of been", I think they are the next best alternative.

the man's a genius
okay, it's all about lennon v mccartney , who's better? well in my view lennon was the best in the beatles but mccartney has had the better solo songs by far.True Lennon died in 1980, meaning Mccartney has had more time to amass a huge amount of classics and he has as shown here.Disc 1 is full of superb songs - goodnite tonite, let em in,band on the run,jet etc. Disc 2 is more album tracks and quite unsuccessful singles.But it also rules - it has maybe amazed,the amazingly catchy take it away and the superb tomorrow, amongst many others.This is a must for any Mccartney fan, unless you want to get all of his albums, which you might as well cos u can pick them up on the cheap and hardly disappoint.