Wings – Red Rose Speedway (1973)

I had bought Paul’s new venture, Wings, first album ‘Wild Life’ and was sorely disappointed.  As a huge Beatles fan and slowly building up my Fab official albums I was, maybe stupidly, attempting to buy everything any of the four produced (I gave up on Ringo a few years ago but have most of the others).  So, almost reluctantly I bought Wings second offering – at least the single ‘My Love’ seemed a return to form.  I had only bought the record the day that Joy and I got together.  She had that day bought Terry Reid’s ‘River’, and we spent the first evening playing these two albums alternately on my Garrard deck.  Well I learnt to love both albums, though again the critics were unkind to Paul’s new album (the acrimony between John and Paul was still reverberating in the Press who mostly favoured John at this time). There have been various re-issues including ‘B’ sides and other miscellaneous tracks – I prefer the original album.  Some of it is naïve, but there is an enthusiasm about the songs that is infectious, not quite up to Beatles standards but I particularly like ‘Little Lamb Dragonfly’ and the medley of ‘Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands Of Love’.  Happy memories.