One of Paul McCartney's oft-bootlegged live performances will finally get an official release this summer: the soundtrack to his 1974 "rockumentary" One Hand Clapping.

This acclaimed performance with Wings, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in the wake of the release of Band on the Run, will be available June 14 on two CDs or two LPs, featuring the 15 songs used in the special and another disc of 12 songs recorded during the four-day session that birthed the program. A bonus 7", available exclusively with online orders, will include a further six solo performances by McCartney, recorded on the final day in the backyard at Abbey Road and featuring versions of "Blackbird," "Country Dreamer" and a few snippets of covers ("Twenty Flight Rock," "Peggy Sue"). A Dolby Atmos mix by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard will be available to stream as well.

Though 10 of these tracks have been included as bonus cuts on entries in the former Beatle's 2010s-era reissue campaign The Paul McCartney Archive Collection, this is the first time the One Hand Clapping audio has been released on its own and in proper context. Returning in August 1974 to the legendary London studio where nearly all of The Beatles' discography was cut to tape, McCartney and Wings - his wife Linda on keyboards, guitarists Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton - had just come off a fruitful Nashville session that produced a future U.S. hit single ("Junior's Farm"), while Band on the Run - Wings' third album - was in the middle of a seven-week run atop the U.K. charts, definitively proving McCartney's post-Fabs career was safely assured.

With director David Lichtfield and an assortment of guest musicians - an orchestra conducted by Del Newman, saxophonist Howie Casey (who contributed memorably to Band on the Run) and the Tuxedo Brass Band - the material recorded for One Hand Clapping featured standout tracks from Band on the Run ("Jet," "Bluebird," "Let Me Roll It," "Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" and the title track) along with others in McCartney's growing solo oeuvre ("Maybe I'm Amazed," "Live and Let Die," "My Love," "Hi, Hi, Hi"). A few snippets of Beatles tunes ("Lady Madonna," "Let It Be," "The Long and Winding Road") were played during the sessions, along with some spirited early rock covers ("Baby Face," "Blue Moon of Kentucky"), with Paul trading between bass, guitar and keyboards throughout.

One Hand Clapping will feature original sleeve art initially designed to promote the special for prospective broadcasters. It serves as the companion piece to this year's 50th anniversary edition of Band on the Run, which paired the original album with an unreleased, resequenced "underdubbed" mix of the album prepared without orchestrations. You'll be able to give One Hand Clapping a round of applause on June 14, and can pre-order it below. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn commission from qualifying purchases at the below links.)

Paul McCartney & Wings, One Hand Clapping (MPL/Capitol/UMe, 2024)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP/7": Official Store

CD/LP 1

1. One Hand Clapping
2. Jet
3. Soily
4. C Moon/Little Woman Love
5. Maybe I'm Amazed
6. My Love
7. Bluebird
8. Let's Love
9. All of You
10. I'll Give You a Ring
11. Band on the Run
12. Live and Let Die
13. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
14. Baby Face

CD/LP 2

1. Let Me Roll It
2. Blue Moon of Kentucky
3. Power Cut
4. Love My Baby
5. Let It Be
6. The Long and Winding Road/Lady Madonna
7. Junior's Farm
8. Sally G
9. Tomorrow
10. Go Now
11. Wild Life
12. Hi, Hi, Hi

7"

1. Blackpool
2. Blackbird
3. Country Dreamer
4. Twenty Flight Rock
5. Peggy Sue
6. I'm Gonna Love You Too

All tracks from CD 1 released in One Hand Clapping film, 1974
Disc 1, Tracks 1 and 14 released on Venus and Mars (The Paul McCartney Archive Collection) - MPL/Hear Music/Concord HRM-35652-00, 2014
Disc 1, Tracks 2, 7, 11 and 13; Disc 2, Track 1 and Disc 3, Track 3 released on Band on the Run (The Paul McCartney Archive Collection) - MPL/Hear Music/Concord HRM-32564-00, 2010
Disc 1, Track 5 released on McCartney (The Paul McCartney Archive Collection) - MPL/Hear Music/Concord HRM-32799-00, 2011
Disc 2, Track 4 released as PaulMcCartney.com digital bonus track to Venus and Mars (The Paul McCartney Archive Collection)