Wings Greatest

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Wings Greatest
Wings compilation album

Publication
(s)

November 27, 1978 ( US ) ,
0December 1, 1978 ( UK )

Label (s) Parlophone (UK)
Capitol Records (US) / EMI / Universal Music

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD , download

Genre (s)

Rock music

Title (number)

12

running time

54 min 30 s

occupation
  • Henry McCullough: guitar
  • Hugh McCracken: guitar
  • Joe English: drums
  • Geoff Britton: drums

production

Paul McCartney

Studio (s)

Various

chronology
London Town
(1978) 		Wings Greatest Back to the Egg
(1979)

Wings Greatest is the eighth music album by the group Wings . It is Paul McCartney's eleventh album after the Beatles split up and his first compilation album . It was released on November 27, 1978 in the US and on December 1, 1978 in the UK.

Emergence

After the compilation album Shaved Fish by John Lennon was released in October 1975 and Blast from Your Past by Ringo Starr the following month , a year later, in November 1976, a compilation album by George Harrison entitled The Best of George Harrison followed . Except for Paul McCartney, no ex-Beatle renewed the record deal with EMI after the deal with Apple Records expired on January 26, 1976.

From 1979 up to and including 1984 Paul McCartney was in the USA and Canada with the recording company Columbia Records under contract. Capitol Records was able to release a compilation album by Paul McCartney in December 1978, which was titled with the name Wings Greatest .

The song Another Day is the A-side of a Paul McCartney single and Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey is from the album Ram by Paul and Linda McCartney. So both titles are not Wings songs. Furthermore, the album does not contain the number one hit from the USA Listen to What the Man Said and the USA top ten hits Helen Wheels and Maybe I'm Amazed (live) . The top ten hit from Great Britain Mary Had a Little Lamb is also not included on the album.

Wings Greatest contains nine top ten hits from Great Britain and eleven US top ten hits, five of which are US number one hits. Mull of Kintyre failed to reach the top ten in the US, but was Paul McCartney's only number one hit in the UK until the album's release year.

In Bulgaria , the album Wings Greatest was released without the song Live and Let Die . In Italy the album was also pressed on blue vinyl.

Cover design

The cover shows a small statue that was placed on a snow-capped mountain in Zermatt , Switzerland and was photographed by Angus Forbes. The design was done by Hipgnosis. The statue was used again for the cover of the upcoming studio album Back to the Egg .

Track list

page 1

  1. Another Day - 3:39
  2. Silly Love Songs - 5:51
  3. Live and Let Die - 3:09
  4. Junior's Farm - 4:18
  5. With a Little Luck - 5:42
  6. Band on the Run - 5:08

Page 2

  1. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey - 4:38
  2. Hi Hi Hi - 3:05
  3. Let 'Em In - 5:07
  4. My Love - 4:05
  5. Jet - 4:04
  6. Mull of Kintyre - 4:40

Re-releases

  • The album was first released on CD on February 4, 1985. The CD is accompanied by an illustrated leaflet that can be folded out twice.
  • In April 1993 the CD was released in a version remastered by Peter Mew . A four-page illustrated booklet is enclosed with the CD.
  • In July 2010 the album was released in download format.
  • On May 18, 2018, the album, pressed on 180 gram blue vinyl, was released by Capitol Records . The CD has a cardboard cover that can be opened. The songs were remastered in previous years (2010-2016), and with A Little Luck and Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey (single edit) were remastered for the album .

Single releases

No single was released from the album.

Chart placements

year album Chart placements annotation
DE AT CH UK US
1978 Wings Greatest 17th - - 5 29 The album also reached the top ten in the Dutch and Australian charts

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA) Hong Kong (IFPI / HKRIA) Gold record icon.svg gold 10,000
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) Platinum record icon.svg platinum 100,000
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Platinum record icon.svg platinum 1,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum record icon.svg platinum 300,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg1 × gold
Platinum record icon.svg3 × platinum
 1,410,000

Chart positions of the singles contained on the album

Chart positions of the singles
year single Interpreter DE GermanyGermany
 AT AustriaAustria
 CH SwitzerlandSwitzerland
 UK United KingdomUnited Kingdom
 US United StatesUnited States
1971 Another day Paul McCartney 6th 10 7th 2 5
1971 Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey Paul and Linda McCartney 30th nv nv nv 1
1972 Hi, Hi, Hi / C Moon Wings 16 - - 5 10
1973 my love Paul McCartney & Wings 43 - - 9 1
1973 Live and Let Die Paul McCartney & Wings 31 - - 9 2
1974 jet Paul McCartney & Wings 6th - - 7th 7th
1974 Band on the run Paul McCartney & Wings 22nd - - 3 1
1974 Junior's Farm Paul McCartney & Wings - - - 16 3
1976 Silly Love Songs Wings 14th - - 2 1
1976 Let 'em in Wings 29 - - 2 3
1977 Mull of Kintyre Wings 1 1 1 1 -
1978 With a little luck Wings 17th 19th 11 5 1

literature

  • Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium , 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 , p. 247.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bulgarian version of Wings Greatest
  2. ↑ Italy - Blue Vinyl by Wings Greatest
  3. ↑ Wings Greatest - Blue Vinyl
  4. ^ Wings Greatest - CD re-release
  5. ↑ Wings Greatest - Information about the re-release