![]() ![]() Versions of the song can be heard on several other live McCartney albums including Back in the U.S. Record World said "Already a classic and familiar track, this version comes without the false ending. This live version is longer than the original and has a slower tempo. Live version "Maybe I'm Amazed"Ī live recording from the 1976 album Wings over America was released as a single by McCartney's band Wings on 4 February 1977 it reached number 10 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 28 in the UK. Joe Tangari of Pitchfork similarly evaluated "Maybe I'm Amazed", along with "Junk" and "Singalong Junk", as the "peaks" of McCartney. It succeeds marvelously." In a retrospective review for McCartney, Record Collector has highlighted "Maybe I'm Amazed", along with "Every Night" and "Junk", as songs that "still sound absolutely effortless and demonstrate the man's natural genius with a melody". In a review for the McCartney album on release, Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone described "Maybe I'm Amazed", as "a very powerful song", that states "one of the main sub-themes of the record, that the terrible burden of loneliness can be dispelled by love." Winner continued to describe the track as "the only song on the album that even comes close to McCartney's best efforts of the past. In a late 2009 Q&A with journalists held in London to promote his live album Good Evening New York City, McCartney said "Maybe I'm Amazed" was "the song he would like to be remembered for in the future". Regarded as one of McCartney's finest love songs, it achieved the number 347 position in the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in November 2004, and is the only solo McCartney song to make the list. ![]() A promotional film was made, comprising still photographs of McCartney, his wife Linda, stepdaughter Heather, and daughter Mary it aired in the UK on 19 April 1970 on ITV in its own slot, and later as a part of an episode of CBS Television's The Ed Sullivan Show. Although McCartney declined to release the song as a single in 1970, it nonetheless received a great deal of radio airplay worldwide. He played all the instruments: guitars, bass, piano, organ, and drums. Although most of his debut solo album was recorded at his home in London, McCartney recorded "Maybe I'm Amazed" entirely in EMI's Number Two studio in Abbey Road, on February 15, 1970. ![]() He credited his wife Linda with helping him get through the difficult time. As it is here the documentary definitely needs some editing and work for a final product, but this is probably the best we’ll see of this until the master does indeed surface.McCartney wrote the song in 1969, just before the break-up of the Beatles. The interviews are also cool to listen to, hearing Paul speaking about aging and other topics. It’s also great to have another studio version of “Soily” and the very rare song “Suicide”, one of McCartney’s first songs, and a rare version of “1985″. He is wearing his karate uniform and even shows his moves during the drum improv. It is interesting to note this is the only existing footage of Geoff Britton playing with the band, since he never did tour with them. The performances are good for a rehearsal. The sound quality is very good, as good as the Watchtower release from 2001. The picture is fuzzy and wavy at points and really shows its age. Despite the claim on the front cover, the master was NOT used but a copy several generations away. This new release on Misterclaudel is their first foray into DVD (along with the simultaneously released “James Paul McCartney”) and is interesting without being enlightening. The only problem is the tour never did happen when Britton was unceremoniously dumped from the band, and “One Hand Clapping” remained in the vaults, never to air. To counter all of this they produced this television documentary showing them rehearsing in Abbey Road Studio for their first true world wide tour and interviewing Paul and showing everybody generally in a positive light. The British press was running many stories about the clashes and imminent breakup of Wings along with the usual rumors about the reunion of the Fab Four. They had a strange mix of personalities to go along with the usual pressure of playing in the same band as an ex-Beatle. Having released their biggest hit with Band On The Run, McCartney was breaking in a whole new band with guitarist Jimmy McCullouch and drummer Geoff Britton. When Paul, Linda and the rest of the band returned to the UK after their seven week working vacation in Nashville, Tennessee, there were many pressures on the band at this time. “One Hand Clapping” is a strange document. One Hand Clapping, Jet, Soily, C Moon/Little Woman Love, Billy Don’t Be A Hero, Maybe I’m Amazed, drum improv., My Love, Bluebird, Suicide, Let’s Love/Sitting At The Piano, I’ll Give You A Ring, Band On The Run, Live & Let Die, 1985, Baby Face ![]()
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