Paul McCartney and Wings

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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 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.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.