“It was kind of funny to me, thinking that, yes, here I gave it to him and he had that blank look on his face … and then he actually did do it.

“I realized, I’m the only guy that really knows how he got it,” he says. See details Located in: Kent, United Kingdom Delivery: Estimated between Wed, 29 Mar and Tue, 4 Apr to 23917 Returns: 30 day return. UK Condition: Very Good Price: £97.40 Buy it now Add to basket Watch this item Returns accepted Postage: £14.98Royal Mail International Signed. He did some digging online and soon discovered that a sort of urban legend had sprung up concerning where McCartney got the sticker. Paul McCartney and Wings tour programme Paul McCartney. “I had to go back 40 years in my memory to remember that night that I actually did it.” “For a moment I was like, in a shock,” Kudzia says. Kudzia tells us he didn’t find out that McCartney actually did end up using the sticker until 2011, when a Facebook friend went to the artist’s concert and posted a picture showing the guitar. Paul McCartney Glastonbury Pyramid Stage 26 June 2004 setlist: Jet (by Paul McCartney and Wings) Got To Get You Into My Life (by The Beatles) Flaming Pie. “He had a blank look on his face, like, why would we do something like that?” he says. Using the knowledge he gained as an employee of the stadium, Kudzia worked his way backstage where he found McCartney.Īfter he presented the sticker, Kudzia says McCartney “looked dumbfounded at me.” “Here was a band that’s called Paul McCartney and Wings, and he’s at the stadium of the Red Wings … So I thought the two kind of went together and I thought it would be kind of nice to present him with a Red Wings sticker to put on his guitar.” “It was a great show, I was really enjoying it,” he says. Some recording artists included in uDiscover Music articles are affiliated with UMG.Kudzia tells us he was just swinging by Olympia Stadium the night of the Wings concert in 1976 to pick up a paycheck when his coworkers invited him to stay for the rest of the show. UDiscover Music is operated by Universal Music Group (UMG). Listen to the best of Paul McCartney & Wings on Apple Music and Spotify.įor the latest music news and exclusive features, check out uDiscover Music. For an acoustic type of song, it has everything.” Speaking for Stereogum’s 80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Paul McCartney Song feature, he said: “You know a song has made an impression if you can rewind to a place and a smell and the weather and you get these phantom images of where you think he played the song. Only last year, the album’s “Little Lamb Dragonfly” was singled out as “enchanting” by USA Today and by Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott. The opening “Big Barn Bed” was cited as one of McCartney’s most underrated tracks by Guitar World and Ultimate Classic Rock, while “My Love” has attracted well over one hundred cover versions by such stars as Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Brenda Lee, Nancy Wilson, Cass Elliot, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Cher. The stature of Red Rose Speedway has steadily risen among fans, critics, and fellow musicians.

The ome single from the set, the enduring ballad “My Love,” similarly became Wings’ first No.1 single in America, and a fixture in live shows by the band and then by McCartney for decades to come. Top 10 Paul McCartney & Wings Songs Wild Life (1971) Red Rose Speedway (1973) Band on the Run (1973) Venus and Mars (1975) Wings at the Speed of Sound (. Red Rose Speedway was the first Paul McCartney and Wings album to top the US album chart, starting a sequence of chart-toppers that included Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, At The Speed Of Sound, and Wings Over America. Shop the best of Wings’ discography on vinyl. The 50th Anniversary pressing will be available from April 22, just ahead of the anniversary of its original release on April 30, 1973. Paul McCartney and Wings’ much-loved 1973 album Red Rose Speedway will be released as a limited edition half-speed mastered vinyl LP for Record Store Day 2023.

Paul McCartney and Wings 'Red Rose Speedway' artwork: Courtesy: MPL

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