Friday, October 1, 1971
Shooting of “Wild Life” cover photograph
Last updated on October 25, 2023
Friday, October 1, 1971
Last updated on October 25, 2023
Location: Osterley Park, London, UK
Article Sep 18, 1971 • New Musical Express reports Paul McCartney considers to release a maxi-single
Session Sep 30, 1971 • Mixing "Penny Lane"
Article Oct 01, 1971 • Shooting of "Wild Life" cover photograph
Article Oct 02, 1971 • Paul McCartney's new band name, Wings, is revealed
Photo shoot for the “Beatles For Sale” cover
Oct 04, 1964
The Beatles’ “butcher” photo session
Mar 25, 1966
Designing the “Revolver” cover
June - July 1966 ?
Designing the packaging for “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
March - April 1967
Designing the packaging for the White Album
September - October 1968
The “Abbey Road” photo session
Aug 08, 1969
The Beatles’ last photo session
Aug 22, 1969
Designing the packaging for “McCartney”
March 1970 ?
Photo shoot of the “Band On The Run” cover
Oct 23, 1973
On this day, Wings went to Osterley Park in west London for the shooting of the cover photograph of their first album, “Wild Life“. The photographer was Barry Lategan (Paul McCartney had previously worked with him for an article in The Observer in 1969).
[After some holidays] we went back to the United States and went back to New York and then Paul called and asked us to come back: “We’re going to do the cover shoot”. I remember getting off a red-eye flight and I went straight to this park and we set on the branch over this water with the doves and our arms and that was the photo shoot for Wild Life.
Denny Seiwell – Interview with Maccazine – Volume 47, Issue 1 – The birth of Wings
Wings re-visited Osterley Park a few years later for the cover of “Band On The Run”.
The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After The Break-Up 1970-2001
"An updated edition of the best-seller. The story of what happened to the band members, their families and friends after the 1970 break-up is brought right up to date. A fascinating and meticulous piece of Beatles scholarship."
We owe a lot to Keith Badman for the creation of those pages, but you really have to buy this book to get all the details - a day to day chronology of what happened to the four Beatles after the break-up and how their stories intertwined together!
The Beatles - The Dream is Over: Off The Record 2
This edition of the book compiles more outrageous opinions and unrehearsed interviews from the former Beatles and the people who surrounded them. Keith Badman unearths a treasury of Beatles sound bites and points-of-view, taken from the post break up years. Includes insights from Yoko Ono, Linda McCartney, Barbara Bach and many more.
Maccazine - Volume 40, Issue 3 - RAM Part 1 - Timeline
This very special RAM special is the first in a series. This is a Timeline for 1970 – 1971 when McCartney started writing and planning RAM in the summer of 1970 and ending with the release of the first Wings album WILD LIFE in December 1971. [...] One thing I noted when exploring the material inside the deluxe RAM remaster is that the book contains many mistakes. A couple of dates are completely inaccurate and the story is far from complete. For this reason, I started to compile a Timeline for the 1970/1971 period filling the gaps and correcting the mistakes. The result is this Maccazine special. As the Timeline was way too long for one special, we decided to do a double issue (issue 3, 2012 and issue 1, 2013).
Maccazine - Volume 47, Issue 1 - The birth of Wings
"Maccazine is a hard copy magazine (a bound paperback) about Paul McCartney. It is published twice a year. Due to the fact that the Internet has taken over the world and the fact that the latest Paul McCartney news is to be found on hundreds of websites, we have decided to focus on creating an informative paper magazine about Paul McCartney."
"In this issue we take you back to the early days of Paul McCartney’s solo career when he decided to form a new group. With Wings he proved there was life after The Beatles. This Maccazine features a detailed timeline of ‘the birth’ of the band with interesting entries including many new facts and unpublished photos. Follow-up timelines will be published in the upcoming years."
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Max Power • 3 years ago
My favorite Wings album. Under rated and under appreciated. But that is my view. In fact, I think I'll go listen to it on 8 Track now. That's right 2021, and I play 8 Tracks. Sound better than CD or digital invisible music.
The PaulMcCartney Project • 3 years ago
Still have a 8 Tracks player ! Amazing !
