Paul McCartney & Wings 1974 film to screen Saturday. These are the San Diego-area ...
Paul McCartney is ready to get back, again, with Saturday’s one-night-only screenings of the rarely-seen 1974 documentary “Paul McCartney & Wings: One Hand Clapping.” It will screen internationally at movie theaters, including five in San Diego County, one in in Tijuana and one in Murrieta. (The list of theaters appears later in this article.)
The now 50-year-old film has never been shown in theaters or televised. Some of the songs recorded for the film were included as part of McCartney’s archival “Band on the Run” box set release in 2010, while a few other songs appeared in subsequent deluxe reissues of other McCartney albums in 2011 and 2014.
Not coincidentally, “One Hand Clapping” was made as something of a victory lap following the 1973 release of the chart-topping “Band on the Run.” That was the third album McCartney and Wings made together in the 1970s, following the implosion of his previous band, The Beatles.
The film was shot on videotape in August 1974 at Abbey Road, the same London studio where The Beatles recorded the majority of their albums. Its belated unveiling now, in upgraded form, follows the June release of the “One Hand Clapping” live double-album. Sixteen of the selections on this 32-song, live-in-the-studio album were never previously released, at least not officially (bootlegs are another matter).
The film and album feature live-in-the-studio versions of such McCartney and Wings’ favorites as “Jet,” “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Junior’s Farm” and “Hi Hi Hi.” The sound has been remastered by an audio team that includes Giles Martin, the son of longtime Beatles’ producer George Martin.
Source: George Varga/sandiegouniontribune.com
