Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run - Genuine MINT 1973 UK First Pressing

	£		48
	$		64

Artist & Title: Paul McCartney and Wings ?– Band on the Run

Rare original MINT 1973 UK FIRST PRESSING 9-track vinyl LP including the huge hits Jet and the title track, complete with MINT 27" x 20" fold-out poster of Polaroid snapshots and lyric inner. This is a stunning copy of the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums.
The record is in Mint condition and sounds as wonderful as ever, while the cover fully merits an Excellent grading with little storage wear or creasing to show for its 40 years. See pics. A superb play-copy of this masterpiece of 70s rock!
Highly desirable for its 1/1 first press matrices and Mint condition vinyl, and increasingly difficult to find in good condition on vinyl, this could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to add this superb rarity to your collection at an extremely advantageous price.

Catalogue Number: Apple Records ?– PAS 10007 (OC 064 ? 05503)

Release date: 7 December 1973 (UK)

Overall Grade: MINT/EX (LP/Cover)

Matrix(Runout): Side 1: YEX 929-1   Side 2: YEX 930-1

First UK pressing.
Label: An Apple Record
? 1973 EMI Records Ltd.
Produced by Paul McCartney
Sleeve: (L)7312 Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd  PAS 10007

This historic LP from Paul McCartney at his creative peak is hardly ever offered for sale in this condition.

“McCartney's penchant for sophisticated, nuanced arrangements and irrepressibly catchy melodic hooks is up to the calibre he displayed in the Beatles.”

This is the extremely rare real thing: a genuine Mint/Ex condition UK first pressing. The record is in flawless Mint condition and the cover is in Excellent condition. All items are free from any major defects like scratches, tears, dog-ears, stickers, writing, stains or the like. See pics. All items are the genuine originals bought together by me in 1973, not reprints or replacements. The LP is the original 1973 UK stereo LP, which was only played occasionally on top-end audiophile equipment and lovingly cared for.

“The closing 1985 works as a fantastic climax to a fantastic album. This is Paul’s musically most consistent and cohesive work.”

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THIS ALBUM EVER OFFERED FOR SALE IN RECENT TIMES

Band on the Run is an album by Paul McCartney & Wings, released in 1973. It was Wings' third album. It became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums. It was 1974's top-selling studio album in the United Kingdom and Australia, and revitalised McCartney's critical standing.
In 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 75 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2012, Band on the Run was voted 418th on Rolling Stone magazine's revised list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as "with the possible exception of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called The Beatles."
The album continues to be regarded positively. The Allmusic review cites some of the songs as being excellent and the album overall as "enjoyable" while concluding that it is a "triumph of showmanship." And the Rolling Stone review of the 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition notes that "the real action still lies in the original LP's revved-up pleasures.
It was the last McCartney album issued on the Apple Records label.

This may be your only ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to own this rare piece of rock history in this condition.

“Has to be one of the best albums ever made. Beautifully written, both vocally and musically. Just buy it... NOW!”

Having decided it might be far out to cut a new Wings album in Lagos, Nigeria, Paul had already made all necessary arrangements when guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell announced that he could make the trip without them. Apparently they felt they were being turned into McCartney-programmed robots, and didn't like it any more than George and Ringo had. In their absence, Paul pulled himself together to create an album that picked up where Abbey Road left off. In doing so, he combined a sense of urgency with his renewed self-confidence; as Mrs McCartney told Sounds: "Paul thought, I've got to do it, either I give up and cut my throat or get my magic back."
Supported only by his two unplucked Wings, Linda and faithful rhythm guitarist Denny Laine, Paul painstakingly overdubbed guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, Mellotrons, and some highly competent drumwork, on top of the most lyrical McCartney bass runs in years. (Occasionally Wings were joined by a smattering of local percussion, which led to charges that they had swooped down on Lagos in order to rip off Nigeria's musical heritage.) The process recalled that first do-it-yourself McCartney solo LP, but the results were incomparably more successful on every level. Band on the Run more than sufficed to dispel the stigma of all than intervening wimpery. And the aging hippies all said: McCartney Is Back.

A fantastic time warp example of this rarity in amazing condition, a true investment grade item - get it while you can!

AND IT MUST SELL IN THIS ONCE ONLY AUCTION

You can read more about this album, Paul McCartney and Wings all over the web.

I pack my records professionally in stiff corrugated cruciform record boxes leaving the Vinyl (housed in anti-static bags) outside the Sleeve.

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