Vinyl Album - Mike McGear - McGear - Warner Bros.

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Mike McGear
Title:	McGear
Label:	Warner Bros.
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	BS 2825
Date:	14 Oct 1974
Format:	LP
Genre:	Rock, Pop
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	16 Own
Price Guide:	$20
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PRICE GUIDE

$20

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Mike McGear	Sea Breezes	Bryan Ferry	Rate
A2	Mike McGear	What Do We Really Know?	McCartney	Rate
A3	Mike McGear	Norton	McCartney, McGear	9.0 Rate
A4	Mike McGear	Leave It	McCartney	Rate
A5	Mike McGear	Have You Got Problems?	McCartney, McGear	Rate
B1	Mike McGear	The Casket	McCartney, McGough	Rate
B2	Mike McGear	Rainbow Lady	McCartney, McGear	Rate
B3	Mike McGear	Simply Love You	McCartney, McGear	Rate
B4	Mike McGear	Givin' Grease A Ride	McCartney, McGear	Rate
B5	Mike McGear	The Man Who Found God On The Moon	McCartney, McGear	Rate

Notes

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

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.

Notes by JPGR&B, 19 December 2018.

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frankheussner 30th Dec 2022		Uploaded promo labels



JPGR&B SUBS 19th Dec 2018		Cherry Red Records and Esoteric Recordings are going to be re-releasing McGear in February 2019 according to Mike McGear - hear more about this in an interview with Richard Oliff from Tuesday 11 December 2018, where Mike talks about the invention, creation and animation of The Weirdos, and about the forthcoming re-release of the 1974 album McGear. It will be a Super Deluxe vinyl release with DVD, as well as on CD.



edlongus SUBS 17th Dec 2017		Side I label variant scan added (Track 5 "Have You Got Problems?" has publishing variant).

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