My mom played this vinyl many times and it gets under my skin. Tunes, fragments of it still vibrates in my ears even after 30 and so years. “By dawn’s first light i’ll come back to your room again/With my carnation hidden by the packages/I’m carrying, something/I’m carrying something for you…” Just like that. “People pass me by on my imaginary street/Ordinary people it’s impossible to meet/Holding conversations that are always incomplete/Well, I don’t know/Oh where are there places to go/Someone somewhere has to know/I don’t know…” Songs to humming along a lifetime. Just like “Girlfriend” or “With A Little Luck”. And I’m pretty sure, a guy named Michael Jackson learned this songs – and lesson – as well. But I love McCarney and I love this whole album from “”Cafe on the Left Bank” to “Famous Groupies” or from the “Backwards Traveller” to “Deliver Your Children” and I just can name all the 14 tracks of the original release. Worth to mention the over 6 minutes of “”Morse Moose and the Grey Goose” with Funky and Psychedelic infusions. On the re-issued and remastered release from 1993 there’s two bonus tracks: “Girls’ School” and “Mull of Kintyre”, this second one becoming the UK’s biggest-selling not charting single, even outstripping The Beatles’ largest seller “She Loves You”.
Recording the album was a long and tumultuous project which saw the loss of two band members, the birth of James – the son of Paul and Linda – and the release of the mentioned major success of the single “Mull of Kintyre”. In February 1977, sessions began at Abbey Road Studios and continued until the end of March. McCartney’s initial plan of touring the US again was thwarted by wife Linda’s discovery that she was pregnant. Drummer Joe English had become greatly homesick for America and returned home. Lead guitarist Jimmy McCulloch left to join the Small Faces. For the first time since 1973’s (Band on the Run), Wings were down to the core: Paul, Linda and Denny Laine.
After final overdubbing in January 1978, “London Town” was completed and it was released on 31 March 1978. “London Town” it’s over 50 minutes of tasty, classic Rock music and another piece of the puzzle from the history of the music.
