![]() And if you want to know this writer’s opinion, ‘Warm and Beautiful’ is an even finer ballad than ‘Yesterday’. It was the voice of ‘Yesterday’, now happier and more contented in himself, bringing great resonance to his life as a balladeer par excellent. McCulloch plays a gentle song, embellishing the yearning that attaches itself to the number, and the song proved one of McCartney’s more accomplished ballads. He sings ‘Warm and Beautiful’ with great tenderness, celebrating the virtues of love, regardless of the way it presented itself to the person in question. But the album’s most memorable moment came in the form of a piano ballad, that featured Paul McCartney virtually alone. “I remember one of my first engineering jobs,” engineer Peter Henderson recalled, “working with Paul McCartney on Wings at the Speed of Sound - he’d do two vocal takes and ask, ‘Which is the better one?’ And when he played the guitar, he’d really lean into it and give it everything he got.” The guitar performances are lively, particularly ‘Beware My Love’, a raucous rocker written in the style of 1960s monsters ‘I Can See For Miles’ and ‘Helter Skelter’. The band were whizzing through the tracks, and no matter the fact that he was a Beatle fronting his second orbit, Paul McCartney regularly asked for guidance from the technical department. Guitarist Denny Laine, meanwhile, sings ‘The Note You Never Wrote’, a ballad Paul McCartney personally wrote in his style. ‘Wino Junko’ is the most impactful tune, demonstrating Jimmy McCulloch’s predilection for substances, and unlike the barrelling ‘Medicine Jar’ – heard on the Venus and Mars album in 1975 – the song is slow, sombre and mature work for such a young composer. Maturity isn’t the adjective I’d use to describe ‘Cook of The House’, but it’s to Linda McCartney‘s credit that she tackled the tune with great gusto, even if the words were lacking. Why Wings were a better band than The Beatles
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