Paul McCartney & Wings ★★★★
One Hand Clapping
CAPITOL. CD/DL/LP
Double album soundtrack of abandoned live-in-thestudio 1974 film.
By August ’74, Wings seemed to be finally coalescing – Band On The Run Tom Doyle was Number 1 in the UK and a second incarnation of the group (featuring Glaswegian guitar prodigy Jimmy McCulloch and hard-playing, karate-practising London drummer Geoff Britton) were on a roll after recording the zippy Junior’s Farm single in Nashville. One Hand Clapping was conceived as a Let It Be-styled studio documentary, shot over four days at Abbey Road, but was ultimately canned, due to the volatility of a line-up that wasn’t to last a year. With its tracks freshly remixed by Giles Martin, this short-lived band now sound freewheeling and powerful, particularly when hammering through Soily or amping up the Quo-like boogie rock factor in Hi, Hi, Hi. A rare (and improved) document of a more muscular Wings.