Band on the Run (song)

"Band on the Run" is the title song from Paul McCartney and Wings' acclaimed Band on the Run album, one of McCartney's most ambitious and best-loved songs. It is composed of a three-part structure that revolves around the themes of escape and liberation. The song features prominently on every McCartney/Wings best-of compilation and in McCartney's live shows. The song was considered the best evidence that McCartney's muse had not deserted him after The Beatles. It was the second of six number-one singles for the band on the Billboard Hot 100.

George Harrison contributed the line in the middle section "If we ever get out of here."

A part of the middle section would later be sampled by Tone Lōc on his 1989 track "Cutting Rhythms", but had to be removed as permission was not given. Eve Of Summer remixed it in 2007, for their album "7".

A cover version of "Band on the Run" was recorded in 2007 by Foo Fighters as their contribution to the Radio 1. Established 1967 album. This album, commemorating BBC Radio 1's 40th anniversary, features a cover version of a song released in each of the station's 40 years recorded by a modern-day band or solo artist; "Band on the Run" being the song selected to represent 1974. On 1st June 2008, McCartney was joined onstage by Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl for a special performance in Liverpool. Grohl played guitar and sang backing vocals on Band on the Run and then played drums on Beatles songs Back in the U.S.S.R. and I Saw Her Standing There.

Preceded by "The Streak" by Ray Stevens	Billboard Hot 100 number one single June 8, 1974	Succeeded by "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods