This past March, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that for the first time since 1987, vinyl outsold compact disc releases. In the U.S., some 41 million vinyl records were ...

Red Rose Speedway was the group’s first album to be credited to Paul McCartney and Wings. The band’s previous album, Wild Life (1972), was simply credited to Wings. Some have suggested that the name ...

Paul McCartney had at least one first after The Beatles broke up. He wasn’t the first to release a true solo album (Ringo Starr beat him to it in March 1970), but he was the first to form a new band.

There’s an old joke about a wide-eyed teenager stumbling onto a Beatles LP in a late 1970s record store and exclaiming to her friend, “Did you know that Paul McCartney had a band before Wings?” As ...

Paul McCartney announced the latest installments of his ongoing Archive Collection, a pair of deluxe reissues dedicated to the Wings-era LPs 1971’s Wild Life and 1973’s Red Rose Speedway. Both ...