I’m just gonna share a few musical factoids with you today. So if you’re not in the mood for that sort of thing, it probably won’t interest you that Paul McCartney released an album on December 5, 1973.
Yeah, December 5, 1973, saw a release of “Band On The Run” in the United States.
One source I saw said that album was the “critical pinnacle of his post-Beatles work.” Because it topped the charts in 7 countries. When you consider how difficult it is to top the charts in just one country, that is pretty impressive.
I don’t think I actually bought a copy of that album. But I probably had a cassette version. And several of the songs were big hits for him. And I heard them on popular radio stations, back then, all the time. I eventually added the first and last songs, on the album, to my live music repertoire. The title song, Band On The Run, and Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five. I really like the musical change-ups in the first song and the way the last song rocked out and built up to a crescendo, complete with a minor key to major key resolution chord, at the end. Fun stuff.
Here’s an interesting sidenote I hadn’t heard before.
“According to the 2015 book Conversations With McCartney, Paul said that when recording this album, the band went to Africa, they were told not to walk around the country; Linda and Paul did anyway. Paul said they were robbed at knife point. The original recordings of a few of the songs on the album were stolen, but they escaped with their lives and that’s all that really matters.”
They recorded it in Nigeria.
Remind me (yeah, right) to never go there. As if I needed any other reasons to avoid that place like the plague.
Anyway…
Paul enjoyed, and still enjoys I suppose, a lot of musical successes. Like
- five consecutive number one albums
- 27 U.S. Top 40 hits
- best-selling pop act of the 1970s (with his band, Wings)
- 60 gold records
- composed the most-recorded song ever (Yesterday)
- and many more
By many accounts, Mr. McCartney is the wealthiest musician in the world who is the net worth of $1.2 billion. He also continues to earn “tens of millions per year in royalties and licensing fees earned from both his own music and an incredibly valuable portfolio of publishing copyrights from other artists.”
But he’s still drastically poor compared to me.
And certainly not because of my musical successes. They’re not even a fraction of a fraction of his. But I invested, wisely, somewhere Paul has passed over. At least so far. And my investment will still be paying dividends long, long, LONG after either his money or his time has run out.
No, I’m not a shrewd investor or marketing, genius or even a lucky guy who started out with a multimillion dollar inheritance. I’m just a regular guy who’s humble enough to learn where the real gold is and then place my faith where it can produce a heavenly return based on perfection instead of my broken brain.
So here’s the thing. If you prefer to listen to peacenick talk in top 40 hits, then Paul McCartney might fit the bill. But if you’re looking for truth, real love, and everlasting life, you should maybe consider my recommendations.
And there are just two main ones I always share. Email me anytime and ask. Or, on this delightful December 5….
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