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前作から一変、6ヶ月間に及ぶ長期録音を敢行した73年発表作。(2)がシングル・チャートで全米1位を獲得したこともあって、本作も3週連続全米1位に輝いた。オリジナルLPのジャケ裏にはスティーヴィー・ワンダーへのメッセージが点字で打たれていた。
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You could trawl the rock & roll archives all the way back to the start and never find an album quite like
Red Rose Speedway. Which is not to say that it's great. Just that it's... weird. Though it's a Wings album, it's entirely irradiated with Paul McCartney's personality--to the extent that virtually the entire band left him while attempting to rehearse for the supporting tour, claiming they couldn't operate in his huge, overbearing shadow. You can see where they were coming from.
Red Rose Speedway, right down to the cover shot of Macca with a rose in his mouth, is about Paul McCartney, specifically his unique ability in the '70s to pump up slight, pretty songs to the scale of "Hey Jude," seemingly unaware or unworried that that didn't necessarily make them as good as "Hey Jude." The high spot is the saccharine sauciness of "My Love," a lurching soft-focus ballad about his wife's sexual excellence. The rest of it--lazy, lushly produced rock, sometimes sweet, sometimes just cloying, but always unmistakably Macca--is worth hearing if just to ponder: "What the hell did he think he was doing?"
--Taylor Parkes
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