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Artist: Mike McGear McCartney Title: McGear Label:   See For Miles Country: UK Date: 1992 Catalogue: SEECD 339 Barcode: 5014661033937 Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Mike McGear McCartney	Sea Breezes	Bryan Ferry	Rate
02	Mike McGear McCartney	What Do We Really Know?	McCartney	Rate
03	Mike McGear McCartney	Norton	McCartney, McGear	Rate
04	Mike McGear McCartney	Leave It	McCartney	Rate
05	Mike McGear McCartney	Have You Got Problems	McCartney, McGear	Rate
06	Mike McGear McCartney	Dance The Do	McCartney, McGear	Rate
07	Mike McGear McCartney	The Casket	McCartney, McGear	Rate
08	Mike McGear McCartney	Sweet Baby	McCartney, McGear	Rate
09	Mike McGear McCartney	Rainbow Lady	McCartney, McGear	Rate
10	Mike McGear McCartney	Simply Love You	McCartney, McGear	Rate
11	Mike McGear McCartney	Givin' Grease A Ride	McCartney, McGear	Rate
12	Mike McGear McCartney	The Man Who Found God On The Moon	McCartney, McGear	Rate

Notes

Paul McCartney : Producer.
Linda : Moog and vocal harmonies.
Paul : Bass.
Denny Laine : Leci guitar and vocal harmonies.
Jimmy McCullough : Leci guitar.
Gerry Conway : Drums.
Brian Jones : Sax.
Paddy “Pipes” Moloney (Chieftains) : Aeolian pipes.
Peter Tattershall : Engineer.
Martin Lawrence : Assistant engineer.

Tracks 6 and 8 are here added to the album's original track listing.

Made in France for UK release.

Originally Paul McCartney and Wings were scheduled to start making an LP with Paul’s brother, Mike McGear, in December 1973, but the sessions were delayed until the following month. In January 1974, at the suggestion of George Harrison, the crew assembled at 10cc’s Strawberry Studios to record a batch of songs that were nothing if not Paul McCartney compositions, regardless of whose name was on the credits. In addition to writing the vast majority of tunes and playing most of the instruments, Paul also sang extremely audible background vocals; therefore, for all intents and purposes, McGear was the 1974 Paul McCartney and Wings LP. Unfortunately, when the album was issued in the UK in September 1974, prefaced by the Leave It single in August, it was anything but a Wings LP when it came to its commercial performance; it didn’t even dent the charts. Perhaps playing up the McCartney angle a bit more in the promotion would have helped its fate, but Mike to his credit wanted it to stand on its own merits.

Source: Chip Madinger and Mark Easter’s wonderful book Eight Arms To Hold You – The Solo Beatles Compendium (2000, 44.1 Productions, LP), with acknowledgement, and used for educational purposes.

Given the foregoing, some consider this a “lost” Wings album.

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