Maybe I'm Amazed

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"Maybe I'm Amazed (live)"

Single by Paul McCartney and Wings
from the album Wings Over America
Released	February 4, 1977
Format	7" vinyl
Recorded	1976
Genre	Rock/Pop
Writer(s)	Paul McCartney
Producer(s)	Paul McCartney
Chart positions
#28 (UK) #10 (US)
Paul McCartney and Wings singles chronology
"Let 'em In" (1976)	Maybe I'm Amazed (1977)	"Mull of Kintyre" (1977)

"Maybe I'm Amazed" is a song written by Paul McCartney, which was first released on his McCartney album on April 17, 1970.

A live recording from the 1976 album Wings over America was released as a single by Wings on February 4, 1977 and became a top 10 hit in the US, and versions of the song can be heard on several other albums including Back in the US and Back in the World.

"Maybe I'm Amazed" has become a centerpiece of McCartney's concerts, along with "Band on the Run" and "Live and Let Die".

Regarded as one of McCartney's finest love songs, it achieved the #338 position in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004.^[1]

"Maybe I'm Amazed" has been covered by:

The Faces on their 1971 album Long Player.
Petula Clark on her 1971 album Warm and Tender.
Tom Scott on his 1982 album Desire.
Elkie Brooks on her 1993 album Inspiration.
Black Oak Arkansas on their Live on the King Biscuit Flower Hour 1976 album released in 1998.
Carleen Anderson on her Blessed Burden album released in 1998.
Cyndi Lauper and Heart live in 2000 during the Women Rock! Girls & Guitars concert showed on Lifetime Television.
Jem on the B-side of single They (Part 1) in 2004.
Joe Cocker on his 2004 album Heart and Soul.
Gov't Mule in 2005 [1].
Morse, Portnoy & George on their 2006 album Cover to Cover.

It was also featured in an episode of the The Simpsons, "Lisa the Vegetarian," on which Paul and Linda McCartney were both guest stars. This version of the song has a recipe for lentil soup narrated by Paul dubbed in over the song (in reverse), recorded during the production of the episode. At the end of this recording, McCartney says "Oh, and by the way, I'm alive," in reference to the hoax about his death during the Beatles era.