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122: Wings at the Speed of Sound - Lesley-Ann Jones

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8467 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Author and journalist Lesley-Ann Jones discusses the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound, with Chris Shaw.

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:04.0

One, two, three, four.

0:06.0

Ah! Hello, and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.

0:35.1

The Eggports take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland,

0:37.6

discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests.

0:42.0

In this episode, I'm joined by journalist, broadcaster and writer, Leslie Ann Jones.

0:46.5

Hello.

0:46.9

How are you?

0:47.7

I'm fine.

0:49.1

Loving your house.

0:50.4

Oh, yeah, well, we won't tell anybody where it is.

0:53.5

No.

0:54.2

Your new book, Flyaway Paul, is coming out next month, is that right?

0:58.4

Yeah, the 19th of October.

1:00.5

And this year sort of didn't exist because it was all about Paul McCartney and writing that book.

1:07.6

And the time, it's sort of jumped from Christmas to now it

1:11.4

the months flew by the months and Paul flew by so this is Paul in the 70s primarily is it

1:18.1

this is the wings yeah it's the post-beetles era before he discovered really that he was aiming to be

1:26.1

a solo superstar and he took a lot of criticism during

1:30.1

that period didn't he because people were saying that wings were a construct they weren't a proper

1:35.0

band they were just a vehicle for him to be trying out his solo songs without the Beatles

1:42.5

I think a large part of it was Paul trying to prove to John that he was still someone

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