It was 46 years ago tonight (May 3rd, 1976) that Paul McCartney kicked off his one-and-only North American tour with Wings, dubbed "Wings Over America," in Fort Worth, Texas. The tour, which featured the classic fourth lineup of Wings, marked McCartney's return to the U.S. concert stage for the first time since the Beatles' final tour during the summer of 1966. Since 1972, McCartney and Wings had recorded and toured extensively throughout the U.K., Europe, and Australia with various lineups of the group, which included wife Linda on keyboards and Moody Blues co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Denny Laine. It took the worldwide success of Wings' Number One albums Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars and his then-most recent release Wings At The Speed Of Sound along with nine Top Ten hits, including the soon-to-be Number One "Silly Love Songs," to bring the act to America. By the time Wings hit the U.S., the group included drummer Jo
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A story was told of a group of tourists visiting an out of the way English village. They met an old resident sitting on a bench and asked him if any famous people were born there. He thought for a while then said, “Nope, only babies.” No one is born famous. For that matter, no one is born again instantly mature. It takes time for us to grow to Christian maturity. Paul in this passage reminds his readers that he is on the way, he hasn’t arrived. He is not going to become despondent about how far he has to go or proud about how far he has come. He simply presses on.
It was 52 years ago today (April 11th, 1970) that the Beatles' "Let It Be," hit Number One. The track, which was the group's final single in America prior to breaking up, was actually over a year old, having been recorded on January 31st, 1969, during the group's ill-fated "Get Back" sessions, which were originally conceived as a TV special chronicling the Beatles' stage comeback. The sessions instead became the Let It Be movie, which revealed the disintegration of the band. "Let It Be," along with its companion piece "The Long And Winding Road," was written by Paul McCartney in late-1968 near the end of the Beatles' "White Album" sessions. He began writing the song after waking from a dream featuring his mother, Mary, who had died of cancer when he was 14. McCartney recalled the song in his 1997 official biography Many Years From Now, saying, "Mother Mary makes it a quasi-religious thing, so you can take i
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