Wings Over America Re-released With Bonus Material, Rockshow Video Available Too

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Paul McCartney’s first band after the Beatles, Wings, put out the classic “Wings Over America” live album way back in 1976. Now, Wings Over America has been re-released containing bonus […]

Paul McCartney’s first band after the Beatles, Wings, put out the classic “Wings Over America” live album way back in 1976. Now, Wings Over America has been re-released containing bonus material. The live album, which documented the band’s triumphant 1976 tour across North America, will be reissued in a range of formats, including the “standard edition” on CD and a vinyl edition.

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But fans and hardcore devotees will be impressed with the four-book, four-disc (3CD, 1DVD) Deluxe Edition Box Set. The box set’s superior audio and video include the two-disc Wings over America album remastered at Abbey Road, a bonus audio disc recorded live at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, a bonus DVD containing the rarely seen 75-minute television special Wings over the World and the photo gallery montage entitled ‘Photographer’s Pass’. Moreover, the Deluxe Edition Box Set contains four art books packaged with an array of exclusive memorabilia, souvenirs, mementos, keepsakes and never-before-seen photos and art work from this historic tour. The 110-page commemorative tour book recounts the behind-the-scenes drama through dozens of live performances and backstage photos along with new interviews and liner notes from music journalist David Fricke. The Wings over America leatherette-bound ‘Tour Itinerary’ contains extravagant memorabilia including printed 8X10 glossy band photos, a backstage guest pass, facsimiles of the invitation to the end-of-tour party at the Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills along with Wings over America concert tickets, original album art work, tour posters, set lists, lyrics, press materials and much more. ‘Look’, the box set’s warm and intimate book of Linda McCartney photography features Paul and the band in their everyday life as they made their way across the country in the spring of ’76. Lastly, the set contains ‘The Ocean View’ an extraordinary hardbound compendium of drawings and sketches by artist Humphrey Ocean that captures the band on tour in relaxed and revealing ways.

 

Also, for the first time a DVD will be released of the live concert film Rockshow which was shot in 1975 and 1976 when Paul McCartney & Wings undertook the Wings over the World tour–the largest-scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. Packed with all the classic Wings hits – plus some of Paul’s solo and Beatles classics – the film is available on both DVD and Blu-ray formats. Although filmed on this tour at the enormous Kingdome in Seattle, Rockshow, originally an edited version of the concert, was not premiered until November 1980 in New York and April 1981 in London. It was originally released on Betamax (later on laserdisc) but it’s only now that the complete full-length concert is being made available fully restored from the original 35mm film and with restored & remastered sound, including a 5.1 mix for the first time.

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The remastered album’s release is dedicated to late band members Linda McCartney and Jimmy McCulloch.

How to enter the contest – read this! You can win a copy. Enter now – just tell us – what is your favorite Paul McCartney song? This next part is important: Put your answer in the “Message” field of the online entry form! If you don’t do that, you won’t win. Click on this sentence to enter the contest! Contest ends on June 20, 2013.

Buy Wings Over America: Deluxe Box Set | Standard Edition | Vinyl

Buy Rockshow: Blu-ray | DVD

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