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''Band on the Run'' is the third studio album by Paul McCartney and Wings, released in December 1973. It marked the fifth album by Paul McCartney since his departure from the Beatles in April 1970. Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was aided by two hit singles – "Jet" and "Band on the Run" – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia, in addition to revitalising McCartney's critical standing. It remains McCartney's most successful album and the most celebrated of his post-Beatles works. The majority of ''Band on the Run'' was recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic locale. Shortly before departing for Lagos, however, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Henry McCullough left the group; with no time to recruit replacements, McCartney went into the studio with just his wife Linda and Denny Laine, doubling on drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts himself as well as bass.〔 On arriving, it was discovered that the studio was below standard, and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knife-point, during which a bag containing unfinished song lyrics and demo tapes was taken. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out at AIR Studios in London. In 2000, ''Q'' magazine placed it at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, ''Band on the Run'' was voted 418th on ''Rolling Stones revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".〔 A contemporary review by Jon Landau in ''Rolling Stone'' described the album as "with the possible exception of John Lennon's ''Plastic Ono Band'', the finest record yet released by any of the four musicians who were once called the Beatles".〔 It was Paul McCartney's last album issued on the Apple label. == Background == Bored with recording in the United Kingdom, McCartney asked EMI to send him a listing of all their international recording studios, McCartney selected Lagos in Nigeria and was taken with the idea of recording in Africa. In August the band, consisting of McCartney and his wife Linda, ex-Moody Blues guitarist and pianist Denny Laine, Henry McCullough on lead guitar, and Denny Seiwell on drums, started rehearsals in McCartney's Scottish home for a new album. During one session, McCullough and McCartney argued, and McCullough quit. Seiwell left a week later, the night before the band flew out to Nigeria.〔Perasi 2013, p. 101〕 This left just the core of the band – Paul, Linda and Denny Laine – to record in Lagos, assisted by former Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. McCartney had chosen Lagos, as he felt it would be a glamorous location where he and the band could sun on the beach during the day and record at night; the reality, however, was that after the end of a civil war in 1970 Nigeria was run by a military government, with corruption and disease commonplace. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Band on the Run」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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