Talk:Wings (band)

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[edit] Image

It's nice to have a picture in this article, but I wonder if we can come up with something besides the Band on the Run cover since it includes a bunch of people who were not members of the band. Jgm 13:20, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Funny, I thought the same thing and uploaded the current one without actually having read this. - Vague Rant 10:30, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Excellent, this is much better, thanks. Jgm 17:11, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've moved the pre-Wings material into the Paul McCartney article, and I've moved any Wings material that was unique to there, into this article (which is much stronger). This should prevent the duplication and uneven treatment that existed.

By nature, Wikipedia includes some duplication, if only so that people don't need to jump around between multiple articles to learn about a single subject. I think the pre-Wings stuff is relevant to Wings, because it shows that McCartney's group (first just himself, then with Linda and session musicians) was expanding in the lead-up to the formation of Wings. Of course, we shouldn't include in-depth coverage, just a summary, and if the reader wants more information on those points, they can see the main article. I feel that the removal of this summary just makes the reader do more work to find something out. - Vague | Rant 13:10, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Answer Songs

I removed a bit that claimed: It [Band on the Run] also included two songs, "Let Me Roll It" and "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five", thought to be answer songs to "How Do You Sleep?", John Lennon's earlier scathing attack on McCartney. I'm going to have to ask for some citation for this, as these are simple, rather silly love songs and it's difficult to see how they could be answering Lennon. Jgm 01:04, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

"Let Me Roll It" was indeed widely seen as an affectionate imitation/parody/tribute of Lennon's style. A source is Roy Carr and Tony Tyler's The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, which was a best-selling treatment of the Beatles and then their solo careers, published in 1974. Another is Nicholas Schaffner's The Beatles Forever, published 1977. So I've restored that. However, I've never heard of "1985" being seen as a Lennon anything, so I've left that out. 67.108.122.62 10:50, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, I have no problem with the mention and wording the way it is now, thanks. Jgm 17:45, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Section headings

The current section headings, Before Wings and The Wings years seems rather odd. These would be perfectly good headings for the Paul McCartney article, but because this article is solely about the Wings, isn't it redundant to have a section heading titled The Wings years. :-) Akamad 12:13, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] References and citations from a book

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Use a book, and start with this:

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Add this in the middle:

Spitz, Bob. The Beatles: The Biography, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, 2006. ISBN 1845131606

You will find this information in the book you have.

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When you want to repeat a reference from the same book in the same article, use this:

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--andreasegde 13:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

I wonder if this article ought to be named Paul McCartney and Wings, so we can get rid of the nasty "(band)" disambiguation? They were called both names during their existence. I'm not necessarily advocating this merely asking what others think :) --kingboyk 18:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)