By Steve Newton
Universal Music Canada has just announced that One Hand Clapping, a live-in-the-studio recording of Paul McCartney & Wings from 1974, will have its first official release on June 14.
The album captures McCartney and his band–which included guitarists Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch, drummer Geoff Britton, and McCartney’s wife Linda on keyboards and backing vocals–at the height of its popularity, while the album Band on the Run was tearing up the charts worldwide.
The songs laid down over four days in Abbey Road studio include some of McCartney’s best known post-Beatles love ballads (“My Love”, “Maybe I’m Amazed”) as well as a couple of his hardest rocking tunes (“Junior’s Farm”, “Soily”).
One Hand Clapping will be released in multiple formats, including a 2LP + 7” package featuring a vinyl single of previously unreleased solo performances recorded on the final day of the sessions in the backyard of Abbey Road studios. These include the unreleased track “Blackpool,” the Beatles’ iconic “Blackbird,” Wings B-side “Country Dreamer,” and cover versions of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” (the first song Paul played to John Lennon when they met in 1957) and Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” and “I’m Gonna Love You Too.”
You can preorder the album here.
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