Band On The Run (DTS 5.1)
By Paul McCartney & Wings • Official album • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney • Studio albums • Special editions”
By Paul McCartney & Wings • Official album • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney • Studio albums • Special editions”
This album was recorded during the following studio sessions:
"Band On The Run" sessions in Lagos
September 1-23, 1973
October 1973
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
5:13 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Electric piano, Producer, Synthesizers, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Moog Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Electric guitar Tony Visconti : Orchestration Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Alan O'Duffy : Mixing engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer Beaux Arts Orchestra : Horns, Strings
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
4:09 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Moog (?), Piano (?), Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Keyboards, Moog (?) Denny Laine : Backing vocals, Electric guitar, Piano (?) Tony Visconti : Orchestration Howie Casey : Sax Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer Beaux Arts Orchestra : Strings
Session Recording: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
3:24 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Chimes (?), Guiro (?), Maracas (?), Percussion (?), Producer, Triangle (?), Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Chimes (?) Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals Howie Casey : Sax Remi Kabaka : Drums, Percussion Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
4:41 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Electric piano, Percussion (?), Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Keyboards Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Electric guitar (?), Percussion (?) Howie Casey : Sax Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
4:50 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Organ Denny Laine : Backing vocals, Electric guitar Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
4:50 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar (?), Percussion, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Moog Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Electric guitar (?), Percussion Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Denny Laine
2:35 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Producer, Shaker (?), Synthesizer (?), Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Keyboards, Shaker (?) Denny Laine : Backing vocals, Electric guitar, Vocals Tony Visconti : Orchestration Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Trevor Jones : Backing vocals Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer Beaux Arts Orchestra : Strings Ian Horne : Backing vocals
Session Recording: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
3:47 • Studio version • C • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Producer, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Moog Denny Laine : Backing vocals, Electric guitar Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant recording engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant mixing engineer
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
5:49 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric guitar, Electric piano, Producer, Shaker, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Shaker Denny Laine : Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Electric guitar, Shaker, Vocals Tony Visconti : Orchestration Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Ginger Baker : Shaker Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer Beaux Arts Orchestra : Horns, Strings Pierre Denis Le Seve : French narration
Session Recording: September 1-23, 1973 • Studio EMI Studios, Lagos, Nigeria
Session Overdubs: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
5:31 • Studio version • B • DTS Mix / Quadraphonic version
Paul McCartney : Backing vocals, Bass (?), Drums, Electric guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, Shaker (?), Synthesizers, Vocals Linda McCartney : Backing vocals, Organ, Shaker (?) Denny Laine : Backing vocals, Bass (?), Electric guitar Tony Visconti : Orchestration Geoff Emerick : Mixing engineer, Recording engineer Monday : Assistant engineer Pete Swettenham : Assistant engineer Beaux Arts Orchestra : Horns, Strings
Session Recording: October 1973 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Session Mixing: Early 1974 • Studio AIR Studios, London, UK
Credits & recording details courtesy of Luca Perasi • Buy Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas. The Stories Behind the Songs (Vol. 1) 1970-1989 on Amazon
From QuadraphonicQuad:
In 1996, when Mobile Fidelity founder Brad Miller re-energized the surround sound music scene with DTS and the Millennium decoder, one of the first quad titles he went back and resurrected was Band On the Run. First released in a standard sized jewel case, the new technology DTS CD allowed people with modern surround systems to hear the quad mixes that had until then been “lost” in the dead format wasteland of consumer electronics. Once the DVD-Audio format entered the marketplace, the DTS CD was repackaged in the larger jewel case – however it was NEVER released as a true DVD-Audio disc. All of the larger case discs were still DTS CDs.
In it’s initial release, purchasers found out right off the bat that something was wrong with the music when they discovered the first three guitar notes of the intro to the title song were missing from the CD. Some thought their decoders were slow to activate. Word spread around the internet and it was confirmed that the first three notes were indeed missing from the CD.
In a most amazing turn of events, it was discovered that almost 7 years later, the missing notes were restored and a new disc was pressed and released. These are the yellow discs. One thing to note, however, is that you can be assured that if you find a Band on the Run in the smaller jewel case, you will get the purple uncorrected CD. However, should you find a sealed copy in the larger jewel case, there is no way to tell if you’ll end up with the original purple CD, or the corrected yellow CD.
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