#Henry McCullough

[beatleswings]

WINGS. 1972.

[rolloroberson]

Paul McCartney and Wings Concert Poster.

[sounwise]

When the band was out drinking one evening in a nightclub [during the 1972 European tour], things turned disturbingly nasty. A young man in a green jacket sidled up to Paul and calmly informed the ex-Beatle that he had a revolver in his pocket and planned to kill him. Having coolly revealed this threat to McCartney, the youth swaggered over to the bar and stood there staring and grinning at the singer. McCullough and Laine arrived not long afterward. McCartney, clearly shaken, whispered to his bandmates, telling them what had just happened and gesturing toward the stranger. The guitarists, particularly the streetwise McCullough, who had begun his musical career as a showband player in the rough Northern Irish dance halls of the early 1960s, quickly took control of the situation. Pulling a knife out of his boot, and with Laine in tow, he wandered over to the bar. The pair flanked the now flustered wannabe thug, who began to protest his innocence, claiming it had all been a misunderstood joke. Laine and McCullough quickly wrestled him to the floor and searched him, producing no weapon. As soon as they let him go, the youth scrambled to his feet and took off into the night. In McCullough’s opinion, it was “one of those incidents that happens a thousand times on a Saturday night in any given city. I felt very protective of Paul because of his vulnerability. … He needed a strong helping hand from whoever was around him.”

[—from Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s, Tom Doyle]

[starrybluez]

The Beatles playing soccer ⚽️, or football as they'd call it in their neighborhood 😉 while filming "Magical Mystery Tour". In Ringo's garden in Surrey and also in what I think is an airfield of some sort.

Bonus: Looks like John decided to stay out of the game and just play the cello instead.

Another bonus: Paul, Henry McCullough and even Martha playing ⚽️ in the early 70's

[reflectismo]

Paul later offered an analytical view of [Henry] McCullough’s and [Danny] Seiwell’s departures, but his analysis showed that he had not quite internalized the lesson of the band’s disintegration; in fact, he remained in denial about the musical issues behind McCullough’s and Seiwell’s resignations.

“When I came out of the Beatles, I got slated for being a bit too heavy with the other guys in the band,” he said. “It was a bit as if I was taking over as the manager. I thought with the new band, I’ll give them total freedom, so no one can accuse me of that again . . . and you can’t do that either. You started to have people saying, ‘Hey man, c’mon, produce us.’ No one would take up the baton, the role. So I came back to that. “The whole of ‘Wings Mark I’ was to see if that could be done. But there was too much indecision, and I wasn’t willing enough to take the thing by the scruff of the neck and say, ‘Look, I think we’ve gotta organize the solos you’re gonna play.’ It was a bit like we’re gonna be the Grateful Dead and we’re just gonna play what comes up. But to do that you’ve gotta know each other for a long time.”

[…]

Henry was surprised when Paul telephoned, but he agreed to a meeting at MPL. They smoked a couple of joints and downed half a bottle of whisky, while Paul asked Henry what he was up to and told him some tales of Lagos. “Look,” Paul said, “I know we’ve had our differences, but I really appreciate the time you’ve been with the band, and I want you to have this.” He handed Henry a check for £5,000 ($12,000) and a flight case full of guitar strings.

McCullough was touched by the gesture, but he was bemused by Paul’s indifference to whether the fracturing of Wings suggested problems with his approach to running a band. “Two of the band members in Wings walked out in the same week for different reasons, and he never asked why,” Henry mused. “You can take from that what you want.”

— The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969 – 1973 by Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair (2022)

[blixtbaby]

6.July 1973

[evenleo]

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Wings in Marrakesh, Morocco, February 1973 (Paul, Linda, Denny Laine, Denny Seiwell, Henry McCullough)🌼💜🌼💜🌼

Via @maccalover66 on Instagram🌼

[musicalthought]

album review; paul mccartney & wings' back to the egg (1979)

♡ fav song: goodnight tonight

♡ least fave song(s): old siam, sir; after the ball/million miles

♡ overall: 8.7/10

Song By Song Review Under the Cut

Reception -> 8/10 Very space age-eqse

Getting Closer -> 8/10 I liked it, but he can do better. I downloaded this track to my personal playlist.

We’re Open Tonight -> 9/10 Very sweet & calming <3. I downloaded this one, as well.

Spin It On -> 10/10 Dance track! I downloaded this one, as well!

Again and Again and Again -> 5/10 Missing something, and there’s some questionable lyrics.

Old Siam, Sir -> 4/10 I’ve heard better.

Arrow Through Me -> 9/10 A horn section on a McCartney track can do no wrong. I downloaded this onto my personal playlist.

Rockestra Theme -> 10/10 With a title like Rockestra, it’s hard to go wrong. I downloaded this one, as well!

To You -> 7/10 Think Dad rock, but with an insane guitar solo near the end.

After the Ball / Million Miles -> 4/10 Eh.

Winter Rose / Love Awake -> 5/10 It sounds nice, but it’s forgettable.

The Broadcast -> 8/10 I really liked it! I wished it was longer though :( I downloaded this one to my personal playlist, as well.

So Glad to See You Here -> 10/10 Really sweet <3 I downloaded this one, as well!

Baby’s Request -> 9/10 Very cute, very sweet, very jazz-y, very right up my alley. I downloaded this one, as well!

Daytime Nighttime Suffering -> 10/10 He wrote this for me. I downloaded this one as well, obviously!

Wonderful Christmas Time -> 12/10 The only christmas song I can play all year.

Rudolph the Red Nose Reggae -> 7/10 Not as bad as the title would lead you to believe.

Goodnight Tonight -> 20/10 I owe my life to this song.

[longliverockback]

Wings Red Rose Speeway 1973 Apple ————————————————— Tracks: 1. Big Barn Bed 2. My Love 3. Get on the Right Thing 4. One More Kiss 5. Little Lamb Dragonfly 6. Single Pigeon 7. When the Night 8. Loup (1st Indian on the Moon) 9. Medley  a. Hold Me Tight  b. Lazy Dynamite  c. Hands of Love  d. Power Cut —————————————————

Denny Laine

Paul McCartney

Linda McCartney

Henry McCullough

Denny Seiwell

* Long Live Rock Archive

[beatleswings]

WINGS on top of their Wings Over Europe Tour bus. Juan-les-Pins, France. July 12, 1972.

[mychameleondays]

Wings: Red Rose Speedway

top: Apple PCTC 251/0C 066 0 05311, 1973

2nd: MPL/Universal Music Group/Capitol 00602567721130, 2018

3rd: MPL/Universal Music Group/Capitol 00602567731184, 2018

Originally released: May 4, 1973

[bluesucanuse]

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: Henry McCullough & Denny Seiwell

THE SONG IS: "Come Together"

[michelle-manips]

Bonnie Bennett/Geralt of Rivia Gif Set

@hollowed-hallowed

[king-of-the-birds]

PAUL'S BALL

a launch party for wings

He produced a handwritten invitation, leaving space to write in the invitee's name, as well as a number, which would be used for a raffle drawing toward the end of the evening. (The prize was a magnum of champagne; the disc jockey Jeff Dexter was the winner.) (..) The recommended dress was "glam."(..)

Some 800 musicians, reporters, friends of the band and music business honchos were invited.(..)

As always at such events, there was ample carping, which a reporter for Rolling Stone duly cataloged. After describing the Empire Ballroom as decidedly unhip, a leftover from the days when the Joe Loss Orchestra would play foxtrots, and young ladies shopped for husbands among the dancers, the writer noted that while the wine and cheese were free, everything at the bar was for sale.

(…)

Eyebrows were raised when, instead of a Wings performance, partygoers were treated to fox-trots, waltzes, quicksteps, and congas, played by McVay's band-along with what McVay remembered as arrangements of sixties and seventies hits, including a Beatles medley and some Beach Boys tunes. They were raised higher still when the heavily sequined and coiffed Frank and Peggy Spence Latin and Ballroom Formation Dancing Teams filed onto the floor to demonstrate their artistry.

"I'm beginning to think that Paul actually digs all this" one guest quipped to the Rolling Stone reporter, "that he actually likes dance bands, ballrooms, and buffet food. That's incredibly camp, you know, incredibly camp. Have you seen his suit? It's like a clown's costume, the jacket is about five sizes too big, and it's not even been finished."

(from the McCartney Legacy Vol. 1)

Paul: A press launch is always a good excuse to have a night out, so we invited friends and journalists, played the album, danced and had a few funny people come on to entertain. I wore an outrageous big check suit that I thought would be good. When I went to collect it from the tailor that morning he told me that it wasn’t finished. I said, ‘Maybe not, but it’s a look!’ So I went to the party with the cotton and the stitching showing, and everyone said, ‘Your suit’s not finished.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I know. Great, huh?’

(from Wingspan, 2002)

Some of the guests that attended were Jimmy Page, Elton John, Sandy Denny, Mary Hopkin, members of the Who, the Faces, Deep Purple, Ginger Baker, Henry McCullough, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Graham Bond, Sandie Shaw, the Greek synthesizer wizard Vangelis, the actors Malcolm McDowell, and Terence Stamp, some of the Monty Python troupe, Sir Joseph Lockwood, the head of EMI, Allan Clarke, of the Hollies, and (Benny) Gallagher and (Graham) Lyle.

After the party a fan encountered Paul:

He went skipping (yes it is true) down the road with Linda and just as he turned the corner to a side street, I took courage and called him back. He stopped and said “yeah” so I ran to catch him up and breathlessly asked him for his autograph. The funny part is my pen was at the bottom of this large bag of mine! He stood patiently watching me with arms folded as I rummaged elbow deep. I asked him if he had a pen as I just couldn’t find mine; he said no (which isn’t surprising as he had this crazy suit on that had no pockets).

(Kathy Turner – From Meet the Beatles for Real: Wings Party)

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