After 50 years of careful consideration, I can safely rubber-stamp "Band On The Run" a masterpiece and Paul McCartney—who wrote and performed most of it—as a pop genius.
The songs are so beautiful, the arrangements are perfect but unfussy, and love pours from the whole record like golden light.
He’s a Gemini. He surfs the impossible with a wand and a top hat: an amoral superhero with a moral compass.
This song was recorded at my kitchen table. I sang this into a cheap recorder, sent the tape to Brendan Benson, and when it came back it had a band on it. So I double-tracked my vocal… #TimsTwitterListeningParty
