OH, BABY
DON'T YOU LET ME DOWN TOMORROW
THROUGH THE WEEK
WE BEG AND STEAL
AND BORROW
Wild Life
is the
debut
studio album
by the British-American
rock band
and the
third studio album
by
after the breakup of
The Beatles.
The album was
mainly recorded
in seven sessions
between
July, 24th and
September, 4th 1971
with additional overdubs
added during sessions
in October 1971
at EMI Studios
(now Abbey Road Studios)
by McCartney,
his wife Linda,
session drummer
Denny Seiwell,
whom they had
worked with on
the McCartneys'
previous album
Ram,
and guitarist
Denny Laine,
formerly of the
English rock band
the Moody Blues.
It was released by
Apple Records on
December, 7th
in the UK
and The 8th
in The US,
to lukewarm critical
and
commercial reaction.
Recording
In July 1971,
with a fresh set of
McCartney tunes,
the newly formed
Wings
recorded the album
in slightly more than a week
with the mindset that
it had to be instant
and raw
in order to capture
the freshness
and vitality of a
live studio recording.
It was claimed at the time
that five of the eight songs
were recorded in one take,
but this was later revealed
to be untrue;
only
'Dear Friend'
was tracked
in one pass.
As engineer
Tony Clark revealed
to author
Luca Perasi:
"There was some discussion
about the orchestra
being too overpowering,
but with a
phasing effect
and subtle level
on the mix
it seemed to work."
Paul McCartney
later cited the
quick recording schedule
of Bob Dylan
as an inspiration for this.
The first session
was held at
Abbey Road Studios
on Saturday, July, 24th
Footage of
McCartney playing
"Bip Bop"
and
"Hey Diddle"
from around this time
was later included in
the made-for-TV film
Wings Over the World.
The album was rehearsed at
McCartney's recording studio
in Scotland,
dubbed Rude Studio,
which Paul and Linda
had used to make demos
of songs that would be
used in the album,
and recorded at
Abbey Road
with Tony Clark
and
Alan Parsons engineering.
Paul had lead vocal parts
on all tracks,
sharing those duties with
Linda on
"I Am Your Singer"
and
"Some People Never Know".
"Tomorrow",
demoed in the summer
of 1970
as a parody of
"Yesterday",
with the same opening chord
sequence
(but in a different key),
features
background vocals
from
Denny Laine
and
Linda McCartney.
After the rehearsals at Rude,
the recording moved
to Abbey Road Studios,
where the album was
completed in a few weeks.
According to drummer
Denny Seiwell,
five of the
eight recorded tracks
were done in one take.
One almost definite example
of this is
"Mumbo",
the opener on the album.
According to Clark,
they were jamming
and Clark decided to
start recording.
McCartney,
upon noticing,
shouted
"Take it, Tony"
and started
ad-libbing lyrics.
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