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Paul releases his second solo album, 'Ram', and the number one single 'Another Day'. He also forms Wings, who release their debut album 'Wild Life' late in the year.
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Paul returns to live work, when he and Wings undertake an impromptu tour of British universities and small European venues. Wings score with hit singles 'Give Ireland Back To The Irish', 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' and 'Hi Hi Hi'.
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Wings release two albums - 'Red Rose Speedway' and the highly acclaimed, massively successful 'Band On The Run' (recorded mostly in Nigeria) which wins two Grammy® Awards. Paul appears in his own TV special 'James Paul McCartney' and, with Wings, releases singles 'Helen Wheels' and the theme song for the new James Bond film 'Live And Let Die'.
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Wings score hits with singles 'Jet', 'Band On The Run' and 'Junior's Farm'. |
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New album 'Venus And Mars' and hit single 'Listen to What The Man Said' launch a major Wings world tour, starting in the UK and Australasia.
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Wings' first and only North American tour leads to the year-end triple album 'Wings Over America'. A concert in Seattle is filmed and released in 1981 as the full-length feature 'Rockshow'. Paul inaugurates 'Buddy Holly Week' in London, commemorating what would have been the singer's 40th birthday. It becomes a yearly event. The album 'Wings At The Speed Of Sound' and singles 'Silly Love Songs' and 'Let 'Em In' are issued.
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Wings record most of their next album on a boat moored off the Virgin Islands. Year-end single 'Mull Of Kintyre' becomes the best selling 45 ever in the UK, outselling all Beatles records, and it attracts Paul yet another Ivor Novello award.
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Release of new album 'London Town', compilation album 'Wings Greatest' and singles 'With A Little Luck', 'London Town' and 'I've Had Enough'.
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Paul is honored by 'The Guinness Book Of Records' with a Triple Superlative Award, for sales of 100 million units and as a holder of 60 gold discs, making him the most successful popular music composer of all time. Wings release 'Goodnight Tonight' single and 'Back To The Egg' album, tour Britain (their last tour) and headline a show in London in aid of Kampuchean refugees.
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Paul releases solo album 'McCartney II', with hit singles 'Coming Up' and 'Waterfalls'. |
