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UK Release date : Friday, February 15, 1974

Jet / Let Me Roll It

By Paul McCartney & Wings7" Single • Part of the collection “Paul McCartney • Singles

Last updated on February 26, 2023

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Side 1

  1. Jet

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

    4:09 • Studio versionA

    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: Late October / Early November 1973 • Studio Kingsway 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

Side 2

  1. Let Me Roll It

    Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney

    4:50 • Studio versionA

    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: Late October / Early November 1973 • Studio Kingsway 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


In the seventies there was this guy called Al Coury at Capitol who was their hot salesman. He rang me just after Band on the Run had come out, and it was starting to go back down the charts after its first week or so. He said, ‘You can’t let this happen. You’ve got to get it back up to the top, and “Jet” has got to be the single!’ I hadn’t particularly spotted it but when he said it, I thought, ‘yeah that could work’. Soon everyone knew ‘Jet’, and it sold the album. In that case it was Al’s choice, and he just persuaded me it was a good idea. 

Paul McCartney – From paulmccartney.com, December 1, 2022

What with the energy crisis, vinyl squeeze and shortage of radio air space, we sent a top executive to Strawberry Studios, Stockport, to ask Paul and Wings to prepare a specially edited version of their new single JET (lifted from BAND ON THE RUN), losing about one minute’s playing time.

Their reply was:

“We’d love to cut it, but we don’t know how.”

We now agree with them.

From Record Mirror, February 9, 1974

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