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Band On The Run, the track and album, are extensively thought about to be a highlight of Paul McCartney's solo career. With Band On The Run, Paul once again reached the heights of songwriting and imagination that he had been working at during The Beatles finest years. In this video I'm taking a more detailed look at how this masterpiece of a tune has actually been put together.
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Yeah sure
For me “Maybe I’m Amazed” is one of his best song ever, Beatles era included
@Solea no, no, it’s “cranberry sauce…”
When i saw the title i thought the video was gonna be about that song until I saw the thumbnail
I thought the video was going to be about this.
Great song, and my favorite Simpsons episode ever
Agree, but have a listen to wanderlust , George Martin said it was Paul’s best vocal , it’s an immense piece of work
Sponsored by Capitol Records / Paul McCartney. Absolute achievement for a man who gets memed for talking about The Beatles all the time.
😎😍😃
@David Bennett Piano Surely that’s Radiohead 😀
@David Bennett Piano David, in my book, you can talk about the Beatles for as long and as much as you want. Carry on!
He loves Radiohead too
Thank you once more for this thorough analysis. It really is an epic piece, which could be considered progressive rock. It’s the same year as Dark Side of the Moon and Selling England by the Pound.
Legend has it that a teenager picked up the album Rubber Soul in a music store and said to her friend, “Look, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings…”
Yes, that happened somewhere around 1975 and has been happening since. Kids aren’t dumb, they just don’t care about our music because their music is what matters to them, just like ours does to us. It’s been happening since the beginning of time. Get over it.
To me more than only this one song are on the same level as his Beatles tunes: In the Back Seat of My Car, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, Jet, Bluebird, Waterfalls, Dress Me Up As a Robber, Let’Em In, Live and Let Die, Arrow Through Me, Another Day, Junk, Temporary Secretary, Getting Closer, Goodnight Tonight – so many gems
Great selection!
I really like Coming Up and Silly Love Songs too.
All amazing songs, I agree
@Bowman Daniel thanks!
@T Lam yeah agree, both are awesome songs. Also Listen to What the Man Said is kind of in the same category for me, and probably several others.
Paul’s Best Solo song isn’t Band On The Run, but it is on the album of the same name. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five.
Hugely underrated that.
The fact that Jet and Let Me Roll It are also contenders shows the greatness of the album.
It’s probably my favourite song of all time so I should agree but I think songs like Band On the Run, Uncle Albert or Live and Let Die are more interesting for a songwriter or a musicologist…
@Tony Bates that’s true! I also absolutely love Bluebird from the same album. No Words is also great, sounds a bit like a George Harrison song
Live and Let Die also really good
“Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” was another song where McCartney used divergent sections to create a song that took the listener from one place to another. The Abbey Road medley is his masterpiece of this type.
Very good, but simplicity also is very hard to achieve as he did with “Junk”.
Glad this was the top comment, my favourite paul song
I love that song so much. I’ve listened to RAM like 50 times in the last month ever since i first listened to it lol.
I was about to mention this song when I saw this comment. Definitely an amazing song. Speaking about the Abby Road medley, can you imagine throwing several partial songs together on the B side of what looked like possible your last album as a group and come up with that masterpiece too.
I knew going in that this video *had* to be about one of these two songs.
When Paul played this at the Glastonbury festival this past June, and pulled Dave Grohl (still grieving over the loss of Taylor Hawkins) on stage with him to perform… It still makes me tear up.
Edit: here’s the link to that performance, to those who haven’t seen it. https://youtu.be/PCZuCgyqLDs
Hawkins would be alive today if it wasn’t for Grohls insistence on you know what
So cool to see you getting sponsored by Paul McCartney’s records so you can actually use the song in the video and work with them at the same time
Hi David, Jenny Wren, from Chaos and creation in the backyard (2005, yes 35 years after the beatles!), could easily be from the Beatles era, but with the voice of a more matured mccartney… It is exceptional and surely amongst his best work!
Jenny Wren is excellent 😌
@David Bennett Piano just finished the video… Great video again! Thanks…
Yes it’s perfect
‘Little Willow’ off Flaming Pie is another beautiful song in this vein from his later catalogue. Very simple but to me it would work well on White Album
I think “My Brave Face” is pretty much always overlooked and therefore underrated.
Same! I really like that song. For me it’s definitely one of the best songs on the album along with Put It There of course (so cute).
I also liked We Got Married
I find overall the album to be ehh but my brave face was a breath of fresh air for paul in 1989 sad it was his last solo top 40 hit brilliant stuff came after
true! great song
I was pretty sure it was going to be ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ when I clicked this video. That is genuinely one of the best songs ever written, including the Beatles discography.
Great song because he was still under the influence of Lennon and George Martin.
Of course his best work post-Beatles is MAYBE IM AMAZED. David is wrong here.
Definitely the most Beatles-esque of his solo efforts, and a great story behind the producing of the album: his band quitting on him before production, getting mugged, and trying to scrape together an album with a lady he had recently taught how to play piano.
I would have picked “Live and Let Die.” But regardless, I don’t think you can say that Paul’s songwriting level was the same. You can name a handful of songs that are on the level of Beatles songs, but it’s just that: a handful. Paul was cranking out multiple masterpieces on each album back in the 1960s.
Yep. Live and Let Die is fantastic, and Band on the Run does nothing for me… (but each to their own).
Honestly, he may have as many great solo songs as he does songs with the Beatles. But part of the reason artists are artists is because they have insecurities like everyone else, but they’re just able to write about them better and set them to music.
I loved this video. Paul is my favorite artist of all time and he doesn’t get the appreciation he deserves. ❤
As a little kid in these seventies when my mom would often play Beatles albums Most of my favorite songs were Paul’s even before I understood that. From Paperbac Writer to For No One to Let Em In to Another Day His writing style has always hit me just right.
Congratulations on your illustrious, and well deserved sponsorship. Band on the Run is a chapter out of my high school years. We played it to death when it was released.
Meanwhile I totally agree that Band on the Run is great, I think McCartney and RAM are a bit overlooked. after being in the biggest band in the world Paul just went full solo, DIY, Lo fi with McCartney. It really shows his talent and creativity without him trying hard. lots of fun ideas, cool rhythms and grooves, great songwritings, jams. I can’t say it’s an ambitious record but he was trying something new and it’s a fun, lighthearted, and a genuine album. personally it really inspired me and gave the courage to write and record all things on my own. and with RAM, this video by Elliot Roberts explained the best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZHvvYsc5w&t=287s