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Wings - London Town (1978) {1987, UK 1st Press}

Wings - London Town (1978) {1987, UK 1st Press}

BAND/ARTIST: Wings

  • Title: London Town
  • Year Of Release: 1978 / 1987
  • Label: Fame #CD-FA 3223 / EMI #CDP 7 48198 2
  • Genre: Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:54:51
  • Total Size: 359 / 145 Mb (Full Scans)
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London Town is the sixth studio album by the British–American rock group Wings. It was released in March 1978, two years after its predecessor, Wings at the Speed of Sound. The album had a long and tumultuous gestation during which the band's tour plans for 1977 were cancelled, due to Linda McCartney falling pregnant with her and Paul McCartney's third child, and two members of Wings departed, leaving the band as a trio comprising Paul, Linda and Denny Laine. Recording sessions were held intermittently over a period of a year, mainly at Abbey Road Studios in London and aboard a luxury yacht in the Virgin Islands. London Town charted in the top five positions in the UK and the US. The lead single, "With a Little Luck", was a number 1 hit in the US. Also recorded during the sessions was the 1977 non-album single "Mull of Kintyre", which, until 1984, was the best-selling single in UK chart history.

Reduced to the core trio of McCartney, McCartney, and Laine after the successful Speed of Sound tour, London Town finds Wings dropping the band façade slightly, turning in their most song-oriented effort since Band on the Run -- which, not coincidentally, was recorded with this very trio. And although its high points don't shine as brightly as those on its two immediate predecessors, it's certainly stronger than Speed and, in its own way, as satisfying as Venus and Mars. What London Town has in its favor is Wings' (or, more likely, McCartney's) decision to settle into slick soft rock, relying on glossy, synth-heavy productions as he ratchets up the melodic quotient. This gives the album a distinctly European flavor, a feeling that intensifies when the lyrics are taken into the equation, and this gives London Town a different flavor than almost any other record in his catalog. And if its best moments aren't as strong as McCartney at his best they, along with the album tracks, find him skillfully crafting engagingly light, tuneful songs that charm with their offhanded craft, domesticity, and unapologetic sweetness. McCartney's humor is in evidence here, too, with the terrific "Famous Groupies," which means there's a little of everything he does here, outside of flat-out rocking. It's a laid-back, almost effortless collection of professional pop and, as such, it's one of his strongest albums.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

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Wings - London Town (1978) {1987, UK 1st Press}


Track List:

01. London Town [04:11]
02. Cafe On The Left Bank [03:26]
03. I'm Carrying [02:45]
04. Backwards Traveller [01:10]
05. Cuff Link [02:02]
06. Children Children [02:24]
07. Girlfriend [04:43]
08. I've Had Enough [03:04]
09. With A Little Luck [05:46]
10. Famous Groupies [03:36]
11. Deliver Your Children [04:19]
12. Name And Adress [03:10]
13. Don't Let It Bring You Down [04:37]
14. Morse Moose And The Grey Goose [06:29]
15. Girls School [03:16]

Personnel:
Paul McCartney - lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, percussion, violin, flageolet, recorder
Denny Laine - vocal (lead vocals on "Children Children" and "Deliver Your Children"), guitar, bass, flageolet, recorder, percussion
Linda McCartney - vocal, keyboards, percussion
Jimmy McCulloch - guitar, percussion
Joe English - vocal, drums, percussion, harmonica

 

 


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