Band on the Run — третий студийный альбом английской группы Wings (пятый сольный альбом Пола Маккартни), выпущенный в 1973 году. Коммерчески наиболее успешный и один из самых известных альбомов группы.
Название альбома совпадает с названием первой композиции на альбоме. В английском выражении "Band on the Run" заключена игра слов: его можно перевести на русский язык как "Банда в бегах" или "Группа (ансамбль) в бегах (движении)". Первый вариант подтверждает обложка, на которой музыканты и приглашённые друзья группы запечатлены в тюремных робах на фоне кирпичной стены, в круге света от полицейского прожектора.
Один из самых продаваемых альбомов 1974 года в Великобритании. Признан многими критиками лучшим альбомом Пола Маккартни. В 2003 году вошёл в список 500 величайших альбомов всех времён по версии журнала Rolling Stone на 418 месте. По версии New Musical Express, альбом занимает 333-е место среди 500 величайших альбомов всех времён. "Возможно, лучший альбом, выпущенный одним из четверых музыкантов, которые когда-то назывались The Beatles" (музыкальный критик журнала "Rolling Stone" Джон Ландау, январь 1974 года).
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Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings, released in December 1973. It was McCartney's fifth album after leaving 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 album was mostly recorded at EMI's studio in Lagos, Nigeria, as McCartney wanted to make an album in an exotic location. Shortly before departing for Lagos, 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. McCartney therefore played bass, drums, percussion and most of the lead guitar parts. The studio was of poor quality and conditions in Nigeria were tense and difficult; the McCartneys were robbed at knifepoint, losing a bag of song lyrics and demo tapes. After the band's return to England, final overdubs and further recording were carried out in London, mostly at AIR Studios.
In 2000, Q magazine placed Band on the Run at number 75 in its list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2012, it was listed at 418 on Rolling Stone's revised list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". A contemporary review by Jon Landau in Rolling Stone described the album as being "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 McCartney's last album issued on the Apple record label. In 2013, Band on the Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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