Contra Band Music

With Walls And Bridges now finally in his rear-view mirror, John could focus on completing his oldies album. Having realized that only...

Believe it or not, John Lennon wasn't the only ex-Beatle doing things in the early autumn of 1974. Two songs from Paul McCartney ...

John Lennon spent the first half of October, 1974 in pre-production for the Rock And Roll LP. Having retrieved the tapes from the late...

John's promotional campaign took an odd turn on October 3rd, 1974 when he visited the New York headquarters of ABC Radio. He was th...

After appearing in local markets from California to Texas to Canada, John Lennon finally appeared live on his hometown radio. Late in th...

September 27th, 1974 saw two McCartney-related titles go on sale in the UK. First was the LP McGear , which Paul and members of Wings had...

Thus far, John Lennon's promotional radio tour for Walls And Bridges had taken him to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Rather than c...

OK, here's a bit of a puzzler. I had this John Lennon interview identified as an RKO Radio broadcast from September 25th, 1974. ...

Let's see, where were we... Oh yes! John Lennon was in the first stage of a massive media campaign promoting his new album, Walls ...

Following their successful Nashville trip, Paul decided to continue rehearsing the new Wings lineup in London, this time in the familiar sur...

While he had been typically quiet in the public sphere throughout 1974, George's private life and musical activities had kept him bu...

Once he had moved back to New York and wrapped up the Pussycats sessions, John began to clean up his act. He accompanied Harry Nilsson to ...

On May 23rd, 1974, news leaked that Paul and Wings would be flying to Nashville for a six-week visit to rehearse the new band lineup an...

Before flying back to London from Los Angeles, Paul received a gold record for Band On The Run , which was proving to be the sturdiest selle...

Riding high on the success of his Ringo LP, which had just spawned its third top 10 single, Ringo was eager to get back into the studio wit...

On March 8th, 1974, Paul and Linda were interviewed at MPL's offices in London for the US morning news show Today . Scott Osborne conduc...

The first single pulled from Band On The Run was "Jet", issued January 28 th in the US with " Mamunia " on the B-side,...

After the release of Living In The Material World , George retreated once again from the public eye for the remainder of 1973. One of his on...

John's promotion for Mind Games continued in late November 1973 with a trans-Atlantic telephone interview with Tony Prince. It was air...

After wrapping up the Band On The Run LP, Paul, Linda, and Denny flew to France in mid-November 1973, where they spent a couple of days at ...

Having chosen "Band On The Run" to be the title track of his next LP, Paul wanted to represent the song's narrative on the alb...

By the end of July 1973, John finally had enough new compositions to begin recording his next LP, Mind Games . As soon the sessions for Yoko...

1973 turned out to be the busiest year ever for ex- Beatle releases, with the issue of five albums plus two non-LP Wings singles. Most...

Wings' fifth single, "Live And Let Die"/"I Lie Around", was released June 1st, 1973 in the UK (and on Paul's 31s...

With John mired in a songwriting slump, the suddenly prolific Yoko took up the slack. Following the double-LP release Approximately Infi...

In April 1973, after taping the James Paul McCartney TV special, Paul went back into the studio with Wings, this time to back up his brothe...

John and Yoko began 1973 facing yet another lawsuit, this time filed by Northern Songs/ Maclen Music, who were claiming unpaid royalties on...

By the spring of 1973, the Quiet Beatle must have seemed like the Monastic Beatle . Since the release of the Concert for Bangla Desh ...