'Band on the Run' First McCartney Reissue in Series

Paul McCartney, who plans to reissue the entire discographies from his solo work and Wings, will begin on November 2nd with a deluxe edition of Band on the Run. McCartney himself oversaw the reissue of the 1973 album, which was remastered by the same Abbey Road team responsible for last year's Beatles remasters. Band on the Run, one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time will be available in a one-disc version and a three-CD, one-DVD deluxe edition with bonus cuts, an audio documentary, music videos and more.

The bonus include the hit "Helen Wheels," "Country Dreamer" and the "Band on the Run" b-side "Zoo Gang," plus six live cuts from the TV special One Hand Clapping. The DVD will feature footage from the Lagos, Nigeria recording studio were Band on the Run was made and video from the album cover shoot, in addition to the music videos. Also included in the deluxe edition: a 120-page hardcover book with unseen Linda McCartney Photographs and a new interview with Paul.

McCartney struck the deal to re-release his catalog with indie label Concord Music Group this past spring.

Band on the Run deluxe reissue track listing
"Band on the Run"
"Jet"
"Bluebird"
"Mrs Vandebilt"
"Let Me Roll It"
"Mamunia"
"No Words"
"Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five"

Bonus Audio Tracks
"Helen Wheels"
"Country Dreamer"
"Bluebird" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Jet" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Let Me Roll It" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Band on the Run" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Country Dreamer" [from One Hand Clapping]
"Zoo Gang"

DVD
"Band on the Run" Music Video
"Mamunia" Music Video
Album Promo
"Helen Wheels" Music Video
Wings In Lagos
Osterley Park
One Hand Clapping

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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