Paul McCartney & Wings - Red Rose Speedway (Double album) 1973

Back in 2013 the godfather of these sites, soniclovenoize of Albums That Never Were, posted a reconstruction of the legendary double album edition of Wings' second album 'Red Rose Speedway'. For many years I enjoyed this expanded edition of one of Paul McCartney's most under-rated albums, and was impressed at the number of rare songs that he'd unearthed to make up the album. Move forward five years and 'Red Rose Speedway' is treated to a Deluxe re-issue, and as part of the promotion, Paul himself was asked by the excellent The Paul McCartney Project website if a recently unearthed 1973 track-listing was what he would have liked to have used, and he obliged with the answer, saying “You know, this is actually how I recollect that double album. I don’t remember exactly why we changed it. Possibly because of the label? But, to be honest, it’s more likely that I would have just said it’s so much easier to deal with a single album. They’re so much easier to deal with! But it’s great the double album will finally get a release!” So this post is basically an update of sonic's post, but with the tracks in the order that McCartney had intended that they should have been, and housed in anew cover. Now that we know which of the many out-takes that have surfaced over the years were actually meant for 'Red Rose Speedway', we can take the rest of them, add a few singles and b-sides, and compile a couple of interesting early albums that could have been issued in 1973 and 1974, which I'll be posting later. But to start this short series here is the expanded edition of 'Red Rose Speedway'.

Track listing

01 Night Out
02 Get On The Right Thing
03 Country Dreamer
04 Big Barn Bed
05 My Love
06 Single Pigeon
07 When The Night
08 Seaside Woman
09 I Lie Around
10 The Mess
11 Best Friend
12 Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)
13 Medley
     a) Hold Me Tight
     b) Lazy Dynamite
     c) Hands Of Love
     d) Power Cut
14 Mama’s Little Girl
15 I Would Only Smile
16 One More Kiss
17 Tragedy
18 Little Lamb Dragonfly